Professional Achievements
Art Residencies
2019 - Resident Artist - Youth Art Perspectives
Resident Artist working with year 10 students from Mandurah Baptist College on their collaborative art installations titled ‘Dolos 1 & 2’ for the Youth Art Perspectives exhibition at MPAC in September 2019.
2018 - Resident Artist - Youth Art Perspectives
Resident Artist working with Senior High School students from Frederick Irwin High School on their collaborative art installation titled ‘No Blue, No Green’ for the Youth Art Perspectives exhibition at MPAC in September 2019.
2017 - Resident Artist - Youth Art Perspectives
Resident Artist working with Pinjarra Senior High School students delivering a series of lessons from which they developed individual artworks to make up their collaborative art installation titled ‘Not Just Another Brick in the Wall’ for the Youth Art Perspectives exhibition at MPAC in September 2017.
(Below link to a Mandurah Mail Story opens in a new web page)
www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/4916134/young-artistic-talent-shines-on-show-in-new-mandurah-exhibition/
2016 - Open Studio Collective at CASM
for the month of January. A resident artist with four other emerging artists.
(Below link to a Mandurah Mail Story opens in a new web page)
www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/3639235/peel-artists-show-their-works-at-open-studio-collective/#slide=1
2012 – 2013 - Inaugural Artist in Residence at CASM (Formally INQB8) Mandurah.
This was a one-year residency in which the Mandurah waterways featured in experimental works using Edicol Dye with other forms of mixed media.
It culminated with my first major exhibition ‘As I See It’. During the exhibition period an artist talk was given, as well as a series of workshops in which in which things discovered about edicol dye as a medium and its possible application in their own art.
(Below link to Mandurah Mail Story opens in a new web page)
www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/1626699/whitcher-to-present-artist-talk-and-workshops-at-mandurah-gallery/
First Place Prizes
Introducing RTKIDS to Mandurah
Being asked to bring my art program RT KIDS to the Mandurah Library with the assistance of the Mandurah City Council was a professional achievement I am proud of and will always treasure.
This art program consisted of weekly art classes through the school term for junior, intermediate and senior school children.
In its second year a home-schooled children's class was added.
Painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, sculpture, including hand-built ceramics with links to artists and art movements, were taught. Art works from all classes were displayed on a weekly rotation.
An official opening marked the start of the end of year exhibition which showcased the young artists work to the public within the Mandurah Library.
Art Residencies
2019 - Resident Artist - Youth Art Perspectives
Resident Artist working with year 10 students from Mandurah Baptist College on their collaborative art installations titled ‘Dolos 1 & 2’ for the Youth Art Perspectives exhibition at MPAC in September 2019.
2018 - Resident Artist - Youth Art Perspectives
Resident Artist working with Senior High School students from Frederick Irwin High School on their collaborative art installation titled ‘No Blue, No Green’ for the Youth Art Perspectives exhibition at MPAC in September 2019.
2017 - Resident Artist - Youth Art Perspectives
Resident Artist working with Pinjarra Senior High School students delivering a series of lessons from which they developed individual artworks to make up their collaborative art installation titled ‘Not Just Another Brick in the Wall’ for the Youth Art Perspectives exhibition at MPAC in September 2017.
(Below link to a Mandurah Mail Story opens in a new web page)
www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/4916134/young-artistic-talent-shines-on-show-in-new-mandurah-exhibition/
2016 - Open Studio Collective at CASM
for the month of January. A resident artist with four other emerging artists.
(Below link to a Mandurah Mail Story opens in a new web page)
www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/3639235/peel-artists-show-their-works-at-open-studio-collective/#slide=1
2012 – 2013 - Inaugural Artist in Residence at CASM (Formally INQB8) Mandurah.
This was a one-year residency in which the Mandurah waterways featured in experimental works using Edicol Dye with other forms of mixed media.
It culminated with my first major exhibition ‘As I See It’. During the exhibition period an artist talk was given, as well as a series of workshops in which in which things discovered about edicol dye as a medium and its possible application in their own art.
(Below link to Mandurah Mail Story opens in a new web page)
www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/1626699/whitcher-to-present-artist-talk-and-workshops-at-mandurah-gallery/
First Place Prizes
- The Mosman Park Award - Watercolour/Gouache.
- The Rockingham Regional Art Award - Oil Painting
- The Rockingham Regional Art Award - Pastel.
- The Gosnells Rotary Art Award – Watercolour
- The Gosnells Rotary Art Award - Oil Painting.
- Pinjarra Rotary Art Exhibition - Drawing.
- York Society for the Arts & Crafts - Watercolour/Gouache.
Introducing RTKIDS to Mandurah
Being asked to bring my art program RT KIDS to the Mandurah Library with the assistance of the Mandurah City Council was a professional achievement I am proud of and will always treasure.
This art program consisted of weekly art classes through the school term for junior, intermediate and senior school children.
In its second year a home-schooled children's class was added.
Painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, sculpture, including hand-built ceramics with links to artists and art movements, were taught. Art works from all classes were displayed on a weekly rotation.
An official opening marked the start of the end of year exhibition which showcased the young artists work to the public within the Mandurah Library.