Artist Profile : Jason Roberts
Kestrel at Rest Scotch College Melbourne View Paintings by
Jason Roberts

1989   Wins 'Best Artist under 25', Waverley City Art Show. Melbourne.
  
1990   Wins 'Best New Artist' ,Wildlife Art Society of Australia,  Annual Exhibition, Melbourne.

1991                      Moves to London for twelve months, culminating in showing at Medici Gallery.

1994                      Moves to United States.


1995                      Successful American Debut at Northern Wildlife Exposition,
                              Lansing,Michigan and Minneapolis Wildlife and Western Show.

                             Named Artist to Watch by  US Art Magazine.
                           

1996                     Exhibits in 'The Wonders of Nature', Monidale Fine Arts, Hong Kong

                                   Featured in 'X-ers in Art', US Art Magazine

1997                     Exhibits in Art of the Living World, Bonhams Auction,                      
                                   Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
                                   
                                  'Foreign Contingency' US Art Magazine.

1998                     Painting, 'Artic White'  accepted into prestigious Leigh Yawkey 
                                   Woodson  Museum's 'Birds in Art' exhibition,Wausau, Wisconsin.US.                                                                              
                                  

                                   Exhibits in New York  at Spaniman Gallery's landmark Natural
                                   History; Contemporary Wildlife painters of North America 
                                   exhibition.

1999                      Works: 'Fire Eyes' and 'Poised' auctioned at Christie's summer auction, London.

2000                      Features in American Artist, 'Watercolour' Magazine.

2001                      Returns to Australia 
                                   Wins Best in Show, RSPCA Annual exhibition,Melbourne with 'Brahmaputra'

2003                     Sets up studio on King Island,Tasmania
 
                                   Runner-up, watercolour division of South Australian Museum's
                                   Inaugural,Waterhouse Prize,for Natural History Art.

                                   Artist in Residence:
                                   Gagudja,Kakadu National Park,NT and                             
                                   Kingfisher Bay,Fraser Island,Qld.


2004                       Founding organizer/participant, Painting the Corner, fund-raising
                                 exhibition,- Trust for Nature (TFN),Melbourne.

                                 Artist in Residence:
                                 Mulgara Arts Centre, Yulgara,Central  Australia.                               
                                 Cradle Mountain Lodge, Tasmania.

2005                         Solo Exhibition,
                                 'The Conscious Stone', Collins Street Gallery,Melbourne.
                                 major exhibition of Melbourne's fine architectural  heritage.

                                 Solo Exhibition, 'Gondwana', Galerie Konoha ,Japan.

2006                         King Island Bull finalist,Fleurieu Biennale,South Sustralia.

                                 Solo Exhibition, 'A Curious Eye', Greenhill Galery,Adelaide,SA


                                 Moves to London from Australia

                                 Commissioned to paint 33 Watercolours for HRH. The Sultan of
                                 Oman.

2007                         Forest of Stone, Strasbourg Cathedral,  finalist,   Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London.

2008                         Exhibits November Light, Ely Cathedral  with Royal Institute of 
                                 Watercolour Painters (RI), Mall Galleries, London.

                                  Solo exhibition, 'Breakers Ahead', Shipwrecks of King Island,
                                  Nautius Gallery,King Island , Tasmania.

                                  Solo exhibition, 'The Conscious Stone 11',Collins Street
                                 Gallery, Melbourne.


2009                          Greenhill Gallery,Adelaide.

                         

                           

 Major Collectors:
                                 H.R.H. The Sultan of Oman
                                 ANZ Banking Group,Melbourne
                                 Roy Morgan Research Centre Collection
                                 RMIT, Melbourne