Prize winners and finalists

2024 Finalist Emerging Artist Award, Fortyfive Downstairs Gallery

2021 Finalist TaTiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery

2021 Finalist Inaugural SETAC Art Prize

2015 Winner Bay Street Traders Association Banner Prize

2019 Finalist in the 2019 Southern Bouy Studio Portrait Prize

2018 Finalist “Who's Looking at You?” Cambridge Street Gallery

2016 Finalist Cliftons Art Prize 2016

2016 Finalist “Who's Looking at You?” Cambridge Street Gallery

2014 Finalist Cliftons Art Prize 2014

2014 Finalist “Who's Looking at You?” Cambridge Street Gallery

2013 Clifton’s Art Prize finalist Victoria

We would be heroes - Quade Cooper

oil on canvas

30cm x 30cm

Unspoken Pain

Inaugural SETAC Art Prize 2021

https://www.setac-au2021.com.au/gallery-of-works

Capitalism 2020

Finalist, Tatiara Art Prize 2021, Walkway Gallery, South Australia

Finalist in the 2019 Southern Bouy Studio Portrait Prize

The Headache,

Life study,

Oil on linen board, 30 cm x 40 cm

Finalist in 2018 Cambridge Studio Gallery "Who is looking at you? Prize”

The Best of Me, oil on canvas, 51cm x 51cm, NFS

Winner - Bay Street Traders Association Prize 2015

Summer, Oil on canvas, private collection

Presentation of award prize by City of Port Phillip Lord Mayor Bernadene Voss

Bay Street Traders Banner Prize in situ

This was one of two works by the artist that were printed on street banners and hung within the Bay Street, Beach Street vicinity in Port Melbourne

2016 Clifton’s Art Prize finalist

Dogs do Lunch, Oil on Linen, 90cm x 90cm private collection

Finalist in 2016 Cambridge Studio Gallery "Who is looking at you? Prize”

La Muse dan la mode de Hemme, 30cm x 40cm

Finalist in 2016 Cambridge Studio Gallery "Who is looking at you? Prize”

In situ photograph of Cambridge Studio Gallery with the Muse

Portraiture

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. ~ Tennessee Williams

Father Love

Oil on canvas board, 30cm x 40cm, private collection

Blue

Oil on stretched canvas, 51cm x 41 cm

The Best of Me

Self portrait with my daughter, Oil on stretched canvas, 51cm x51cm - NFS

We would be Heros - Quade Cooper

Oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm

The Favourite Child

Oil on linen, 35cm x 35cm, NFS

Melancholia

Pastel on Paper

42cm x 30cm 2020

Self Portrait In lockdown

The Pause

50 cm x 50 cm, Oil on Canvas

The Headache

Oil on Canvas board, 42cm x 31cm

Little Lucy

Oil on timber panel, 30cm x 30cm

Entertaining Angels

Oil on Timber, 20cm x 30cm, private collection

Lucas

Oil on Canvas, 30cm x 30cm, private collection

We would be Heroes - Oscar Pistorius

Oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm

Imagine

Oil on Canvas, 92cm x 92cm, Available for purchase

Untitled

Oil on A2 canvas paper

The Worlds Most Dangerous Man

Oil on Linen, 92cm x 62cm, available for purchase

Funny Faces No1

Oil on Timber Panel, 30 cm x 30 cm, private collection

Funny Faces No 2

Oil on Timber, 30cm x 30cm, private collection

The Gift

Oil on linen, 50cm x 50cm, private collection

Timelessness

Oil on Linen Board, 29cmx29cm, private collection

Untitled early work

Oil on linen panel, 30cm x 30 cm

Stephistocated

Oil on Canvas, 28cm x 28cm, private collection

Untitled early work

Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm, private collection

The Great Australian Dream

Oil on linen, 35cm x 35cm

Graphite Drawings

Destiny

Graphite and Coloured pencil on cotton rag, 560 x 760 mm

Here me Roar

Graphite on cotton rag, 760 x 560 mm

My Safe Place

Graphite on cotton rag, 560mm x 760mm

Majesty Version One

Graphite on cotton rag, 560mm x 760mm

Untitled

Graphite on A3 Cartridge Paper

Promotional Work

CD Cover Image for Matt Guntripp's Album "Woman"

Woman, Oil on Canvas Panel, 40cm x 40cm

Promotional image for Albert Park Primary School Art Show

Albert On Show, oil on Canvas, private collection

Sold

Promotional image for Matt Guntripp's Album Cover Second Helping

Woman, Oil on Canvas Panel, 40cm x 40cm

Drawings Ink

Made of Tough Stuff

76cm x 56cm Ink on Cotton Rag, Original Work

The Recovery

Ink on cotton rag 76cm x 52 cm, Original drawing

One Step at a Time

76cm x 56cm Ink on Cotton Rag, Original Work

Majesty

76cm x 56cm Ink on Cotton Rag, Original Work

Farewell

42cm x 27.9cm Ink on Cotton Rag, Original Work

There's a bear in there

Ink on A4 cotton rag

Made whole again

Ink, oil paint and gold leaf on transparent film

New life

Multiple layers of transparent paper overlaid with Ink and Oil paint, A4

Sculpture Made with Glass

Glass it the quintessential medium for a painter who sculpts. It is a material of light, which of course is exactly what painting is all about, value (the absence or otherwise of light) and colour (the spectrum of light). Sigh… I wish I could work with it everyday.

Fractured No 1

Glass and epoxy

The Three Unwise

Glass, Steel, Timber

Oil paint on glass

Trace V2

Trace

Glass, steel, synthetic polymer paint, timber, solder

2019

In the Press

I have been fortunate enough from time to time to have my work featured in various publications, here are a few.

Port Leader Magazine featuring Amanda Tonkin-Hill and her artwork

Albert on Show

Oil on canvas, 75cm x 100cm

Albert Park Primary Art Show Flyer

RMIT Catalyst Magazine Feb 2020

Front cover of the RMIT Catalyst Magazine Feb 2020 featuring photograph of glass sculpture in process (in the furnace). Photograph by the artist, Amanda Tonkin-Hill

February 2020 Edition of RMIT Catalyst magazine featuring work of the artist

Glass sculptural work and photograph by Amanda Tonkin-Hill

Bronze Sculpture

As an artist, I hope to create work that will extend past my lifetime and speak to generations to come. As such I am very much drawn to the enduring nature of bronze as a medium, that an the very beautiful textural qualities that it holds.

A small piece of me

Bronze

Motus

90cm x 90cm x 20cm, bronze, steel, timber, glass, copper, paint

Trace

Steel, synthetic polymer paint, timber, solder

Intimacy

I have long been interested in the secretive nature of intimate moments, the very precious moments away from public glare where a connection between one person and another exists

Possibility #1

Oil on Timber Panel

30cm (w) x 40cm (h)

Possibility #2

Oil on Timber Panel

30cm (w) x 40cm (h)

Stolen Moments 3

Oil on timber panel, 20cm x 25cm, private collection

Stolen Moments

Oil on timber panel, 20cm x 25cm, private collection

Touched by Another No2

Oil on Canvas, 20cm x 20cm, private collection

Touched by Another No4

Oil on canvas, 20cm x 20cm, private collection

Touched by Another No1

Oil on canvas, 20cm x 20cm, private collection

Swimming paintings

Swimming is a large part of my life. These series of works embody the spirit and drive of the competative and non-competitive swimmers that cross my path every day

Racing at States

Oil on canvas, 30cm x 60cm, Private collection

Caught in the Draught

Oil on Canvas, 75cm x 100cm, Private collection

Preparing to Fly

Oil on Canvas, 100cm x 75cm, Available for puchase

On view at Physio4Athletes, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Victoria 3004

Watching the action

Oil on Timber panel, 25cm x 20cm, private collection

Kick and Chat

Oil on Timber panel, 25cm x 20cm, Available for purchase

Backing No 27

Oil on Timber panel, 25cm x 20cm, private collection

Only just getting started

Oil on linen, 30cm x 122cm, private collection

Untitled

Oil on Canvas Paper, A2, private collection

Canine Humanity

I have always been quite enamored by the manner in which our pets imitate human behaviour. This series of works is an exploration in canine humanity

Dogs do lunch No 1

Oil on Canvas, 76cm x 76cm, Finalist in Cliftons Art Prize 2016, private collection

Indecision

Oil on stretched canvas, 81cm x 66cm, Available for purchase

Sometimes its the Underdog who gets the Cream

Oil painting on stretched canvas, 102cm x 66 cm

One True Love

Oil on Canvas, 76cm x 76cm, private collection

Joy

Oil on Canvas, 90cm x 90cm

Sharing a Joke No1

Oil on Timber panel, 30cm x 30cm

Sharing a joke No 2

Oil on Timber panel, 30cm x 30cm

Still Life Works

State of Play : Purple

20.3cm x 25.4cm, oil on canvas

Still life oil painting of a tube of purple paint

State of Play : Yellow

Oil on canvas

20.3 x 25.4 cm

State of Play : Red

Oil on Canvas

20.3 x 24.5cm

State of Play : Blue

Oil on canvas

20.3 x 25.4 cm

Stuck in a corner

Oil on A3 Canvas paper.

Linus

Oil on A3 Canvas paper

Choc Dog

Oil on A3 Canvas paper.

The three stages of loneliness in Isolation:Stage 1

Oil on 20cm circular panel mounted on 25cm x 20 cm black fabric covered board.

The three stages of loneliness in Isolation:Stage 2

Oil on 20cm circular panel mounted on 25cm x 20 cm black fabric covered board.

The three stages of loneliness in Isolation:Stage 3

Oil on 20cm circular panel mounted on 20cm x 25 cm black fabric covered board.

Satiety

Oil on timber panel, 25cm x 20cm, private collection

Apple for the teacher

Oil on Timber panel, 20cm x 20 cm, private collection

Drawings in Pastel

Tribute to Di Vinci

Water based pastel, acrylic and gold powder on A3 Canvas Paper

Melancholia

Oil pastel on A3 black gesso canvas paper

Untitled

Oil Pastel and acrylic on A3 Canvas Paper

Solititude

Mnemosyne

Oil on stretched canvas

102cm x 76cm

Days like this

62cm x 78cm, Oil on Linen, private collection

Hiding

Oil on Linen, 76cm x 61cm

The journey

90cm x 90cm Oil on canvas

Grief

Sculpture

It seems like such a long way sometimes

Oil on linen board, 20cm x 92cm

The Plumber Pens a Tune

Oil on canvas framed, 82cm x 56cm

Walk on by

Oil on linen, 60cm x70cm, private collection

Schizophrenia - the jail that binds

Early work, private collection

Tenderness

Oil on timber panel, 20cm x29cm, private collection

Never more alone

Oil on Canvas, 80cm x 50cm

Abstraction

Turmoil

Acrylic on stretched canvas

91.5 x 91.5 cm

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) Graduation Series 2021

Video - The Boredom Overtook Us

The Boredom Overtook Us

Installation of painting series

photography by Chris Bowes

Out of Aces

Portrait of former NSW Premier Gladys Berijiklian as a playing card

Oil on canvas, 76 cm x 102 cm, 2021

photography by Chris Bowes

Sittin' at the Table

Portrait painting of Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison as a playing card

Oil on canvas, 76 cm x 102 cm, 2021

photography by Chris Bowes

Know when to hold 'em

Portrait of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews as a playing card

Oil on canvas, 76 cm x 102 cm, 2021

photography by Chris Bowes

Every Hand's a Winner

Portrait of comedian Jimmy Rees as a playing card

Oil on canvas, 76 cm x 102 cm, 2021

photography by Chris Bowes

The Boredom Overtook Us

Installation of painting series

photography by Chris Bowes

Year 2020

Year 2020 was a year in which the world as I knew it turned completely upside down. As covid-19 spread to all corners of the earth, I spent many hours watching the news and listening to how our world leaders handled (or failed to handle) the greatest health crisis of recent times. These works were created in response to my hopes and fears that somehow we would be led through the tragedy and grappling with my gradual understanding that Capitalism as a social structure is in its death throes.