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DAVID HINCHLIFFE b.1955 Toowoomba, Australia |
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY |
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David has practised as a newspaper photographer, speech writer, public relations officer, artist, and is currently an elected Councillor and the Deputy Mayor of Brisbane City Council. He has been a full time elected Councillor since 1988 in Brisbane City Council, representing the inner city (Central Ward). Brisbane City Council is the largest local government in Australia. David has been a member of Civic Cabinet since 1991 and in 2004 was elected by Council to the position of Deputy Mayor and Majority Leader. He is currently the Chairperson of the newly formed Urban Planning and Economic Development Committee. David studied at the University of Southern Queensland as well as the University of Queensland. He studied painting under well known Qld artists John Rigby and William Robinson and has won the Gemini Art Award in Toowoomba, the Sunday Mail Art Award in Brisbane and the Rotary Atlantic City Sculpture Award in the USA. As an artist, David has painted for over thirty years. In that time, he has had thirty-four solo painting exhibitions, two photographic exhibitions and participated in sixteen group exhibitions. He produced fifty sketches for the 'Toowoomba Sketchbook' (1976, Rigby Publishers) and in 1991 produced a coffee table book of photographs entitled 'Two to the Valley' which won the Australian Photographic Book Award in 1992. His most recent photographic exhibition was the 'Here and Now' exhibition on refugees at City Hall in February 2003. David's seventh solo exhibition at NeoGallery Brisbane is titled Urban Icons and documents the rapidly changing face of Brisbane's urban environment. As a local resident, David's paintings are personal vignettes of various locations around Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Newstead, and Teneriffe rendered in his strong signature style. David's paintings are in private and corporate collections throughout Australia, the USA and Europe. |
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