RONA GREEN PRINT EXCHANGE
Exhibition + Acquisition
Opening 21 March 2026
Whitehorse City Council VIC

FINALIST
WAMA Art Prize
Environmental Arts Centre, Halls Gap
6 Dec 2025 – 9 Mar 2026

ART CRITIQUE
Shifting Currents Exhibition
Christopher Heathcote
https://heathcoteartcritic.substack.com/p/art-beat-melbourne

FINALIST
Southern Ocean Art Prize
Robe Institute SA

FINALIST
Cresendo25 Artist Book Award
Judging Notes by Dianne Fogwell

GALLERYSMITH Group Show
two works showcased
www.gallerysmith.com.au/collections/sydney-contemporary-2025

SAVE THE DATE
Solo Exhibition Opening Oct 9th 2025
at Gallerysmith
SHIFTING CURRENTS

WINNER
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Burnie Print Prize 2025 TAS

WINNER ‘Ocean Murmurs’
Northern Beaches City Council Acquisitive
Artists’ Book Award 2025
Permanent Collection, Manly Library NSW

FINALIST
RAVENSWOOD Australian Women’s
Acquisitive Art prize NSW 2025

BY INVITATION
Selected Finalist
King’s School NSW Art Prize 2025

FINALIST
Seafarer’s Maritime Art Prize VIC
2023

FINALIST
Banyule City Council VIC
2023 Acquisitive Award

STATE LIBRARY OF QUEENSLAND
ACQUISITION – Permanent Collection
Displaced, Artist Book
December 2023

INTERVIEW | ARTIST Q&A
Hosted by Gallerysmith
Director Marita Smith
September 2023

REPRESENTATION
GALLERYSMITH
Prahran, NAARM | MELBOURNE

PICTORIAL EDITORIAL
ISLAND Magazine
front cover Issue 166

FINALIST
TACIT Still Life Prize 2022
Literature, with love (bronze)

FINALIST
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2022
Bayside Gallery

WINNER
FPS Biennial Artists Book Prize 2022
Text Category – Displaced

FINALIST
TACIT Still Life Prize 2021
Short Stories oil painting

NEW WORKS
now available at
Lauriston Press Gallery

“Once we were Travellers” 2020
A reflection of COVID-19 restrictions
Private Collection

PAPER 2021
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
Come visit Sept 9-12th 2021

FINALIST
Burnie Print Prize 2021
Circa 2020
Burnie TASMANIA 26 Mar – 1 May

FINALIST
Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2021
Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham VIC
Found in the Woods (Snow Globe)

Recipient – CITY OF MELBOURNE ARTS GRANTS 2021
Short Stories Exhibition – March 2021
fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne VIC

ART ALMANAC
SHORT STORIES Exhibition
March 2021 Edition

AUTHOR | ARTIST Q&A
Colin Varney and Lisa Sewards
fortyfivedownstairs Gallery Melbourne
SHORT STORIES Exhibition March 2021

STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA
ACQUISITION – Rare Books Collection
‘Their Words are Magic’
Artist Book – March 2021

Q&A WITH BAYSIDE GALLERY
During COVID-19
View PDF of Q&A

fortyfivedownstairs gallery
Gallery FUNDRAISER
Drive to Survive campaign 2020

 

 

COMMISSIONS WELCOME
SOS, Artist Book
Private Collection, Sydney

ART Gippsland AID 2020
Donation to Bushfire Fundraiser
Gippsland Regional Art Gallery

PANELIST 2020 Bayside Gallery
Facilitated by Curator Joanna Bosse
‘Journeys & Discoveries’ exhibition

FINALIST
2019 Burnie Print Prize
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS
“Wreath” u/s 124x124cm

PRESSING MATTERS MAGAZINE
U.K. Magazine, Issue 8  2019
The story behind the print
featuring “Ripples in the Lagoon”

FINALIST
2019 Peebles Print Prize
“Every one has a story”
Concertina Artist Book

Collaboration Work with Trudy Rice
“A new beginning” 2019
Review by BEC YULE

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
Paper Contemporary 2019
Curated by Print Council of Australia

 

Melbourne Affordable Art Fair 2019
represented by Tacit Galleries

OPEN STUDIOS
September 2019
Hosted by Bayside City Council

16 page Catalogue Booklet
& Essay by Keith Lawrence
Available to purchase at Tacit Galleries

Byron Arts Magazine
Editorial, Spring 2019

BADGES | Limited production
featuring war pigeon etchings
Parachute pigeon 3cm d.
Purple poppy 5.5cm d.

 

Editions 2019
‘Featured Artist’
TACIT Galleries Melbourne

NEW WORKS
LUSTRE – summer 2018/9 group show
Queenscliff Gallery

FINALIST
2018 – 2019 Collins Place Gallery Summer Salon Art Prize
Sponsored by AMP Capital
‘He enters Aurelia’

Byron Arts Magazine
Editorial, Spring 2019

ART GUIDE Australia magazine
Issue 112, March/April 2018
Editorial by Anna Dunnill

 

IMPRINT Magazine, Print Council of Australia
Autumn 2018 Edition
Australia in print editorial

2Bow+ performance
Listen to a snippet of their own rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Thousand kisses deep
March 2018 exhibition

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
Paper Contemporary
Curated by Print Council of Australia
Showcasing solar plate etchings by Trudy Rice and Lisa Sewards
Click here for article on Art News portal

ART EDIT Magazine
Sprint Edition 2018

FINALIST
45th Muswellbrook Art Prize
Works on Paper Section 2018
‘Parajellys Artist Book’

ART NEWS PORTAL
Thousand kisses deep exhibition
Thousand kisses deep

Showcase editorial
Art Edit Magazine, summer edition
‘The allure is deep’ 2018

EDITORIAL
The Bayside Mailer magazine, summer edition
Thousand kisses deep exhibition 2018

Q&A – PRINT COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
Click here for Q&A Interview with Imprint blog
‘Thousand kisses deep’ 2018

FINALIST
Peebles Print Prize 2017
‘Parajelly’ 1/8
Solar Plate Etching

Bellarine Times “Printing for Honour”
article by Courtney Jones
Sewards ‘Parajelly’ artwork featured, Aug 2017

AGE Newspaper 2017
Peebles Print Prize article
‘Parajelly’ etching featured as a prize finalist

“The Recipients” (WW2 War Pigeons)

Shortlisted as a FINALIST
2015 HUTCHINS Works on Paper Award
Acquisitive Bienniel Award,
Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
September 2015

“Ethereal Shadows”
Shortlisted as a FINALIST
M Collection Art Award

Annual Contemporary Acquisitive Prize
Gallerysmith, Prahran, Victoria
October 2015

“when painter Anastasia Nikakis asked me to sit as her subject for a portrait I was both curious and honoured”.

Parachute Woman is now on its way to the Gallery of NSW to be judged for the Archibald Prize 2015. Good luck Anastasia!!

my artwork “Tribute: war pigeons” featured in The Age on May 15, 2015.

These individual artworks were installed in the gallery in a circular hang reflecting the shape of the Dickin Medal, an award bestowed on 32 pigeons following WW2.

When Mother’s Day Classic originally approached Lisa to do an illustration for the ME Bank 2013 bandana, Lisa Sewards jumped at the chance and dedicated her artwork for the bandana to her courageous and beautiful friend Rachel West.  Read more…

Lisa was Creator and Co-Curator of Bayside’s Pink Lady Art Exhibition – a biennial artistic fundraiser (2005 – 2012) that proudly raised $200,000 for Breast Cancer Network Australia and the National Breast Cancer Foundation

“The Recipients” and Hutchins Art Award featured in
The Mercury Tassie Weekend Paper/Magazine Sept 12, 2015
full article here

“The Recipients” full page image featured in
Hutchins Prize 2015 catalogue
full catalogue available here
Interviewed by broadcaster Jacqui Grantford
on 3MBS 103.5 Saturday Arts Program May 30, 2015
Lisa Sewards talking about her research and latest exhibition Flight from Silence
click  here and listen to the full interview.
Collaboration article co-written with Anna Taylor
IMPRINT Magazine
Print Council of Australia
Winter Edition 2015
Collaboration article co-written with Anna Taylor
IMPRINT Magazine
Print Council of Australia
Winter Edition 2015

featured in BOOK PUBLICATION
Firestation Print Studio: the State of Art

Published 2014
Editor Edith May

IMPRINT Magazine
Summer Edition 2011-12
Editorial
Owl Exhibition

Art Almanac
January 2012
Image Profile
Owl Exhibition