- | Finalist Copes Portrait Prize Bowral Art Gallery. Bowral. NSW - 2024, 2022 (Highly Commended) & 2020 |
- | Finalist Fishers Ghost Art Award Campbelltown Art Centre. Campbelltown. NSW -2024, 2022 & 2021& 2019 |
- | 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 Blacktown City Art Prize. Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre. NSW - 2021 |
- | Finalist. Little Things Art Prize Saint Cloche Gallery. Paddington. NSW - 2021 & 2020 |
- | Finalist. Lethbridge 20000 Lethbridge Gallery. Paddington QLD - 2020, 2019 |
About Patrice Wills
Patrice aims to capture her experience of what is seen and felt, through the process of painting.
Ideas emerge visually through the interconnectedness of the figure and the land, sensitive portraits and moody landscapes, captured through colour, tone, and an intimist sensibility.
Patrice has an extensive professional background working and training in the realms of visual arts, education, and community health. Patrice brings this life experience to her work which reflects and explores the human condition and spirit, utilizing a painterly materiality often to fuse the figurative and the abstract.
Patrice exhibits regularly and frequently selected as a finalist in major art awards. 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 | Board member. 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 |