RONA GREEN PRINT EXCHANGE
Exhibition + Acquisition
Opening 21 March 2026
Whitehorse City Council VIC
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
EDITORIAL
Shifting Currents Exhibition
SHIFTING CURRENTS
https://www.southbanklocalnews.com.au/southbank-artist-explores-the-fragility-of-coral-reefs-in-new-exhibition-shifting-currents/
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Hutchins Prize 2015 catalogue
full catalogue available here
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.
IMPRINT Magazine
Print Council of Australia
Winter Edition 2015
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