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Prizes and awards

2025

Finalist Calleen Art Award
Cowra Regional Art Gallery NSW

Keinbah (Hay 5) 2025 Oil on linen 61 x 82 cms

2025

Finalist
Portia Geach Memorial Award

SH Ervin Gallery Sydney

The talented Patrick O'Neill 2025 Oil on linen 51 x 67 cms

2024

Highly commended
Portia Geach Memorial Award

SH Ervin Gallery Sydney

Rembrandt and Trevor  (I can hear you) 2024 Oil on linen 61x82cms.jpg

Rembrandt and Trevor (I can hear you) 2024 Oil on linen 61 x 82 cms

2022

Winner Gallipoli Art Prize 
(aquisitive)
Gallipoli Memorial Club Sydney NSW

Along the ride to Damascus Oil on linen 84 x 122 cm 2022 Collection of Gallipoli Club, Sydney Winner Gallipoli Art Prize 2022 Deirdre Bean Deirdre Bean©Copyright2022

Along the ride to Damascus 2022 Oil on linen

2021

Finalist Calleen Art Award 
Cowra Regional Art Gallery NSW  

Picture of the artwork.

Trousseau (linen) 2021 Oil on linen

2021

Picture of the artwork.

And you’ll know him by the feathers in his hat 2021 Watercolour on paper

2021

Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize 
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre NSW  

Picture of the artwork.

Hay #1 Ginger’s lament

2020

Highly Commended 
Gallipoli Art Prize

Gallipoli Club Sydney

A picture of the artwork.

Major Smith’s petrichor 2020 Watercolour on paper

2020

Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre NSW

A picture of the artwork.

Gymea Lily and fish servers 2020 Watercolour on paper

2020

Inaugural Executive Director’s Prize at Botanica (acquisitive)

The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

A picture of the artwork.

Papaver rhoeas

2015

Australian mangroves

Silver gilt medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London

Series of 6 Australian mangrove species.

Acrostichum speciosum 2014

Watercolour and graphite on Arches 300 gsm paper, 57 x 46 cm

A picture of the artwork.

2012

Australian mangroves

Silver gilt medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London

Series of 6 Australian mangrove species.  

Bruguiera gymnorhiza 2012/15

Watercolour and graphite on Arches 300 gsm paper, 57 x 46 cm

A picture of the artwork.

2011

Finalist
Waterhouse Prize for Natural History

Museum of South Australia, Adelaide

An image of the artwork.

Heritiera littoralis 2012/15  Watercolour and graphite on paper 57 x 46 cms

2010

Xylocarpus granatum

Waterhouse Prize for Natural History, Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
National Archives, Canberra
Highly commended

Xylocarpus granatum 2012/15

Watercolour and graphite on Arches 300 gsm paper, 57 x 46 cm  

A picture of the artowork.

2009

Ficus carica

American Society of Botanical Artists & New York Horticultural Society annual juried exhibition, New York
Highly commended

A picture of the artwork.

2008

Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem

American Society of Botanical Artists & New York Horticultural Society annual juried exhibition, New York
Highly commended

A picture of the artwork.

2006

Syzygium species

Gold medal Royal Horticultural Society, London

Series of 8 Syzygium species.

(Below) Syzygium fibrosum 2006

Watercolour on Arches 300 gsm paper, 30 x 26 cm

An image of the artwork.

Deirdre Bean

Fine artist | Botanical artist

Newcastle, Australia

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