David Hinchliffe has been painting, exhibiting and selling his work in galleries since the age of 12. He has won numerous competitions as a young artist (Sunday Mail Art Prize, ABC Argonauts Award, Atlantic City Sculpture Award, Toowoomba Gemini prize) and is a regular finalist in Tattersalls Landscape Prize.
David has travelled and painted widely in the United States and UK and is represented extensively in collections both in Australia and overseas. While his work is principally oils on canvas or linen, he has also produced many gouache works and sculpture as well as holding two exhibitions of his photographs (“Two to the Valley, 1992, and “Detours”, 2010).
He trained under Brisbane artist, John Rigby, painting as a teenager with contemporaries Tomas McAulay and Rex Backhaus Smith and also studied under premier Australian landscape artist and Archibald prize-winner, William Robinson at the University of Southern Queensland. David furthered his practical artistic study in both New York, Paris and London in the 70s while working his way around the world painting portrait commissions until he returned home to pursue a career in politics. He has painted portraits of Poet Bruce Dawe, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and businessman, Sir Alex McKay.
Described by the late James Gleeson as having an "exceptional talent", he has emerged from 3 decades of work in the public domain to return with renewed passion to his career as a painter. He won the Sunday Mail Colour Magazine Award (1972), Atlantic City Sculpture Award (1973) and Gemini Art Award (judged by James Gleeson in 1974) and has been a finalist for the last 6 years in the Tattersall's Landscape Prize.
He has exhibited at galleries in Brisbane and the Gold Coast as well as at Harrods in London and at Village Art gallery in Greenwich Village 1996, at the Australian Consulate, New York and at Michael Ingbar Gallery on Broadway in Soho, New York and soon in Paris.
“I know it's fashionable to say that painting is a 'release' from the pressures of the world or that the act of painting keeps the artist 'sane'. I don't find that at all. I feel quite 'insane' when I'm painting. I feel an enormous concentration and focus when I paint...and I don't think that's a bad thing.
The act of creation shouldn't be a passive or gentle thing.
My recent work deals with the urban environment in its many forms in cities around the world as well as an abiding affinity with the Australian landscape. It is a response to light. I like the movement of light across a surface -- whether it's a valley, a river, a street or the human form.
I particularly enjoy the shapes, the noise and the shadows of city landscapes – whether it’s the drama of lower East Side in New York, the reflections in the canals of Venice, the romance of Paris streets, the quirky laneways of Melbourne, the crowded pedestrian footpaths of Brisbane city, or the treed streets near my home and studio in QLD.
In recent times I've also been strongly influenced by the extraordinary images and spirituality of Buddhist monks in Luang Prabang, Laos in S.E. Asia and the Buddhist nuns in Brisbane."
- David Hinchliffe
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Winterscapes’, Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
2021 'Places Near and Far', Gullotti Gallery Perth
'Places and Spaces', Manyung Gallery Malvern
Red Hill Gallery Exhibition, Brisbane
'From the Centre to the Sea', Wentworth Gallery
2020 'ESCAPE', Manyung Gallery Malvern
'Toward the Light' Red Hill Gallery Brisbane
2018 Recent Work, Manyung Gallery Malvern, Australia
Red Hll Gallery solo exhibition Brisbane August
Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair special performance artist
Hampstead Heath Affordable Art Fair April
2017 Recent Work, Manyung Gallery Malvern, Australia
Michael Ingbar Gallery, 568 Broadway, Soho, New York
2016 Solo Exhibition, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Recent Work, Manyung Gallery, Australia
2015 Michael Ingbar Gallery, 568 Broadway, Soho, New York
Solo Exhibition, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Solo Exhibition, David Hart Gallery, Mooloolaba
Recent Work, Manyung Gallery, Australia
2014 New York Affordable Art Fair, New York (Sell-out exhibition)
Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
Hampstead Heath Art Fair, UK
Battersea Art Fair, UK
Solo Exhibition, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Solo Exhibition, David Hart Gallery, Mooloolaba
Recent Works, Marks and Gardner Gallery, Mt Tamborine
2013 Solo, Buddhist Exhibition, Chung Tian Temple, Brisbane
Marks and Gardner Gallery Mt Tamborine
Red Hill Gallery, Red Hill Brisbane
Graydon Gallery, New Farm
Hamstead Heath Art Fair, London
Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza
2012 Graydon Gallery, New Farm (June 1-10).
NeoGallery, Mt Coolum, Qld. June 30 through July 2012.
Marks and Gardner Gallery, Mt Tamborine, Qld. June 30 through July 2012.
Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane. Opening July 15, 2012.
Michael Ingbar Gallery, 506 Broadway, Soho, New York. October/November 2012
2011 Australian Consulate, 42nd St, New York. April 6 – May 2011
Michael Ingbar Gallery, 568 Broadway, Soho, New York. April 8 – May 2011.
NeoGallery, Ann St, Brisbane. August 19 – September 2011.
Marks and Gardner Gallery, Mt Tamborine. September 16 – October 2011.
Solo Exhibition, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne
2022 Affordalble Art Fair Hampstead Heath
2018 Affordalble Art Fair Singapore
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
2017 Hampstead Heath Art Fair, London
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
2016 Singapore Affordable Art Fair – Spring Edition, Singapore
New York Affordable Art Fair
Hampstead Heath Art Fair, London
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London
2015 Singapore Affordable Art Fair – Autumn Edition, Singapore
Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery Sorrento
Hampstead Heath Art Fair, London
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London
2014 Singapore Affordable Art Fair - Spring Edition, Singapore (Sell-out exhibition)
New York Affordable Art Fair
Hampstead Heath Art Fair, London
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London
2013 Singapore Affordable Art Fair – Spring Edition, Singapore
New York Affordable Art Fair
Hampstead Heath Art Fair, London
Awards and Grants
1998 - 2018 Finalist Tattersall Art Prize every year
1975 First Prize, Portraitre Prize, RNA Art Exhibition
1972 Sunday Mail Art Competition
1973 Atlantic City Rotary Sculpture Award
1974 Gemini Art Award, Toowoomba
His work is in collections in Europe, the United States and Australia.