- | Finalist Fishers Ghost Art Award Campbelltown Art Centre. Campbelltown. NSW -2025, 2024, 2022 & 2021& 2019 |
- | Finalist Wingecarribee Prize for Landscape Art. Bowral Art Gallery. NSW - 2025, 2023, 2021 |
- | Finalist Halloran Contemporary Art Prize. Jervis Bay Maritime Museum. NSW -2025 |
- | Finalist Blacktown City Art Prize. Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre. NSW - 2025, 2021 |
- | Finalist Copes Portrait Prize Bowral Art Gallery. Bowral. NSW - 2024, 2022 (Highly Commended) & 2020 |
- | Finalist Lane Cove Art Award. Gallery Lane Cove. NSW - 2024 & 2022 |
- | Finalist Regional landscape Prize. The Corner Store Gallery. Orange. NSW - 2024 |
- | Finalist Smallacombe self portrait prize. Gallery One. Mitcham SA - 2024 |
- | Finalist Pro Hart Outback Art Prize. Broken Hill City Gallery NSW - 2024 & 2020 |
- | Finalist Archibald Prize. Art Gallery of NSW - 2023 |
- | Finalist. Waverley Woolhara Landscape Prize. Waverley Art Centre. NSW - 2023, 2020 & 2019 |
- | Winner Blackstone works on paper prize. Blackstone Gallery Newcastle NSW - 2022, & Finalist 2021, 2020 |
- | Winner Hunters Hill Art Prize (small works) Hunters Hill Town Hall. NSW - 2022 & Finalist 2020 |
- | Finalist. John Villiers Outback Art Prize Outback Regional Gallery. Winton. QLD - 2022 |
- | Finalist. Lethbridge Landscape Prize Lethbridge Gallery. Paddington. QLD - 2022 |
- | Winner Fairfield City Art Prize – traditional. Fairfield Art Society. NSW - 2021 |
- | Finalist. Little Things Art Prize Saint Cloche Gallery. Paddington. NSW - 2021 & 2020 |
- | Finalist. Lethbridge 20000 Lethbridge Gallery. Paddington QLD - 2020, 2019 |
Patrice is a female artist living regionally on Jerrinja country on the South Coast of NSW, where she works from a home studio. Prior to relocation she worked and lived in Western Sydney, studying Visual Arts at the University of Western Sydney which led her to creative work in community health, with marginalized and at-risk young people. After further study in counselling, she spent a decade working in adolescent mental health, before moving into education to work in in learning and student support and as an art teacher. Post raising her family, Patrice returned to working with community and arts in public programming and engagement whilst developing a nationally recognised art practice. Patrice draws upon her extensive life experience and professional background in arts, education and health to inform her practice, interested in themes and subject matter around emotional and psychological states using abstracted figuration and landscape. Through an intimist sensibility, colour, tone and painterly marks, her work presents landscapes, figures and portraits that evoke empathy, contemplation, and compassion. Patrice is frequently selected as a finalist in major art awards, including the Archibald Prize, the Pro Hart Outback Prize, and Fishers Ghost Art Award. Her work is accrued in private and public collections
Art prizes (selected after 2020)
Academic Qualifications (selected)
| 2001 | Cert 1V Training and Assessment TAFE NSW |
| 1998 | Bachelor Counselling Honours University of New England |
| 1995 | Post Graduate Diploma Secondary Education University of Western Sydney |
| 1990 | B.A Visual Arts (Painting Major) University of Western Sydney |
Creative Professional Experience (selected)
Current | Public Programs and Audience Engagement. Bundanon Trust |
Current | Board Executive. South Coast Arts |
2020-2024 | Visual Artist and Public Programmer. Blacktown Arts Centre |
2019 | Remote community artists support worker. Warlukurlangu Arts Centre Yuendumu NT |
2016-2018 | Executive advisor and student support. Australian Indigenous Education Foundation |
2005– 2015 | Visual arts teacher and student well being coordinator. Association of Independent Schools |
1995– 2005 | Community arts worker and adolescent mental health specialist. Western Sydney Area Health Service and Wentworth Area Health Service |