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 Chris McClelland’s - Art Awards  
 

2009

 November - Chris qualified to enter three drawings into the Australian Art Excellence Awards at the Australian Guild for Realist Artists for 2009 opening 18th November - 6th December  
 

 

 September  A Young Australian selected to hang in the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, New Jersey, USA until 20th December, 2009  
    May Tupra Woolshed 1909 -2007 won the People's Choice Award at the AGRA Drawing exhibition  
 

2008

 December  Nature's Fury  AGRA summer Exhibition Best Painting in Exhibition  
    November  A Young Australian Best Painting in the AGRA Medal of Excellence exhibition  
    October Intimate Intent   WASA Bronze Medal at the Bi-annual exhibition  
 

 

 July   A Young Australian QWASI Viewers Choice Award  
    May  Rhino Post Safari Lodge  selected to hang at the AGRA Drawing Exhibition  
    April  A Conflict of Interest AGRA  Autumn Exhibition   Runner up  
 

2007

 July Jock of the Bushveld  AGRA Drawing Exhibition  Highly commended and viewers' Choice Award  
    October Sovereignty in Peril Runner up at QWASI  
    December  Natural Intent Runner up in AGRA Summer Exhibition  
 

    2006    

October Selected to Exhibit at the Australian Guild of Realist Artist’s “Australian Art Excellence” Awards for 2006 in Melbourne at AGRA , 1 Inglesby Road, Camberwell, Vic. 3124  
    Wildlife Art Society of Australasia Wild Awards 4th Oct. 5th November at Montsalvat Gallery, 7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham  
    Exhibiting at Escape Gallery, 1 Brisbane St, Murwillumbah, NSW  
     August  A finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Adelaide with ”Unique Australians” 112 out 568 entered.  
     June    “The Nursery” “runner up” at the AGRA Gallery’s winter Exhibition  
   

May  “Storm Over Broken Stripes”  was be featured in the “Antiques & Arts” Magazine & Art Gallery Magazine

  
   

May   Invited to exhibit  his latest drawing “Morning Chill Over the Serengeti” in the “Drawing: the Essential Art” Exhibition at AGRA  Gallery, Cnr. Camberwell & Inglesby Roads, Camberwell

  
   

April  Exhibition at Griffith Regional Art Gallery until 1st May.  Showing some early works of horses and all his later African & Australian wildlife works some originals, prints and photocopies as the originals are now over in Africa.

  
   

April/May  “Five Ants”  was selected to be hung at the Outback Art Prize in Broken Hill.

  
   

Feb.  “Storm Over Broken Stripes” featured in The Australian Artist Magazine.

 
  2005

 "I Dream of Africa - Jack's Camp"  (click here to view) won Best in the Exhibition  2005 Summer Exhibition, December 2005
“A Cautious Approach”(click here to view)  was  judged the "Best Exhibit in the exhibition" at the Queensland Wildlife Art Society International Exhibition1 called "Nature In Art 2005"  QLD October 2005
 “A Cautious Approach” (click here to view) "People's Choice of the most popular exhibit" at the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia exhibition held at the Australian Guild of Realist Artists Galleries, Camberwell in May 2005

  
  2004

 "Tumblebug" (click here to view) was a winner in the "B" Category at the
"Waterhouse natural history Art Prize" held in Adelaide.
It was chosen out of 534 entries to be one of 104 finalists.  There were ten winners awarded prizes.
It is a drawing of an African dung beetle with a ball of dung and an African Elephant looking over its shoulder at it.  It was drawn with graphite pencils.

  
  2003

 

The Ink & Dot drawing of the "Lace Monitor" (click here to view) one of 137 selected out of 450 entries into the South Australian Art Museum Natural Art Prize held in Adelaide in August

 "Eye of the Matriarch" (click here to view) was given a Highly Commended Award at the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia Annual exhibition held in Melbourne
 Chris was asked to draw lodges of Isbindi  Africa Lodges at Kruger National Park in South Africa as well as lodges  and Hotels in the Mantis collection (click here to view)
 
  2002

Zimbabwe to drawing three new lodges for Landela (click here to view) at Lake Kariba

  
  2001

Botswana to draw the two new lodges in the Okavango Delta for Landela (click ere to view)

 
  2000

Botswana to draw the three Walking Trails Camps for Landela(click here to view)

 
  1998 - 1999

Zimbabwe  and Botswana to draw Landela (click here to view) lodges

 
  1997

Zimbabwe for the African Safari Magazine to draw Pamuzinda Safari Lodge

  
   

 Asked to design the front cover for the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia.  He drew "Eastern Bearded Dragon".(click here to view)

 
   

The Limited Edition Print set of four drawings won the Golden Award at the National Prints Awards for 1996

  
  1996

"River Horses" (click here to view) won the Catani Drawing Award at the annual wildlife Art Society of Australasia Exhibition held in Melbourne.

  
 

AWARDS 2001

 

Wildlife Art Society of Australasia -

Catani Drawing Award  "River Horses"  1996

 

  

"It  looks  too  good  for  just  one  colour"

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