Craig Waddell
View stockroom & exhibitionsCraig Waddell lives and works in Sydney and his paintings bear witness to his great passion for the physical characteristics of paint – the pushing, pulling and scraping of it around a canvas. His abstract and semi abstract paintings featuring figures, landscapes and flora pulse with energy and light.
Waddell has won numerous awards and residencies including the Moya Dyring Award, an AGNSW residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Marten Bequest Travelling Art Scholarship and the Gunnery Studio at Artspace in Sydney. Waddell has exhibited widely throughout Australia and Asia and has been a finalist in many of the key painting prizes in Australia including the Archibald Prize, the Dobell Drawing Prize, the ABN AMRO Emerging Art Award, the Kilgour Prize and the Wynne Prize.
Craig Waddell won the 2010 Mosman Art Prize. In 2011 he was a finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, the 41st Muswellbrook Open Art Prize and the Mosman Art Prize. His iconic rooster painting recently won the Clients Choice Award in the RBS emerging art prize.
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