Edelsten, Rodney

PROFILE

Born 1945
Signatory Member Victorian Artists Society
Signatory Member Australian Guild of Realist Artists
Member Portrait Artists of Australia
Member Brighton Art Society
Member Pastel Society of Victoria
Studied  painting with tutors – Shirley Bourne , Lee Machelak, Paul McDonald Smith

 

AWARDS

1992 – Best in Show – Victorian Artists Society Spring Exhibition
1993 – Best Pastel – OLSH Bentleigh Art Show
1994 – Best Oil – Bacchus Marsh  Art Show
1994 Best Oil   Royal Melb. Show
1994 Best Oil   Altona Rotary Art Show
1995 – Best Oil – Waverley Art Show
1996 – Best in Show – Malvern Artists Society
1996 –Best Portrait   OLSH Bentleigh Art Show
1996 –Best Oil  Warnambool Art Show
1998 –Best Oil –  Warragul Art Show
1998 –Best Oil –  Malvern Artists Society
2001 –Best Oil – Malvern Artists Society
2006 – Best Portrait – Brighton Art Society
2007 – Best Other Medium -Bacchus Marsh Art Show
2007 –Best Portrait -OLSH Bentleigh Art Show
2007 –Best Oil – Brighton Art Society
2008 – Finalist in Shirley Hannon Portrait Competition
2008 –Finalist Mortimore Portrait Prize
2008 –Best in Show –Brighton Art Society
2008 –Peoples Choice – Brighton Art Society
2009 – Best Pastel –Brighton Art Society
2010 – Best Pastel – Brighton Art Society
2011 – Best Oil – Korumburra Art Show
2011 –Runner Up  AGRA AAL Exhibition
2011 – Best Pastel – Warnambool Art Show
2011 –Best in Show – Brighton Art Society

 

EXHIBITIONS

2002 Work selected in the Salon Des Refuses Portrait Exhibition
Solo & joint  exhibitions held in various Australian Galleries

 

Rodney Edelston at the Realist Guild opening

Rodney Edelston at the Guild opening