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ABOUT ME

My artistic practice has been molded by the landscapes surrounding me; not only the Mornington and Bellarine Peninsulas but further afield, such as The Grampians and Flinders Ranges, and beyond. Printmaking to me interrogates the formality of the surface, the depth of the line, gazing into the multiplicity of the medium; the flow of the process is as important as the final result.

 

The hand of the artist is apparent at every stage. Printmaking is my chosen medium, mostly lino. I have recently ventured into the dark art of ceramics, where I recreate whimsical versions of the ferries and light houses. I also create watercolours and drawings as source material and as completed works.

 

My sketch books are constantly in use, again as source material and finished works. I grew up around the edges of Port Phillip Bay; my childhood was spent on the beaches, waters and in the bush of the Mornington Peninsula, exploring with my siblings and cousins. We regularly got the ‘Little Blue Ferry’ between Sorrento and Portsea or across to Queenscliff.

 

Adventures to Cape Shank Lighthouse featured every summer as a grand outing. I love maps and see my work visually mapping my environment as I travel through it, as a timeline and record of my continuing journey.

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VICTORIA McCAFFREY RESUME

2025

  • ‘Safe Passage’

Antipodes Bookshop and Gallery, Sorrento

 

2023 

  • Home - Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 

 

2020 

  • Tacit Group Show, Printmakers 

 

2018 

  • Creatures Great and Small – Salt Contemporary 

Art, Queenscliff 

  

  • Overwintering Project – Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee. Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania. 

 

2017 

  • Winter Salon – Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 

  • Rock&Stone – Sorrento 

 

2014 

  • Lounge@Salt - Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 

 

2013 

  • Solo exhibition – 45downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne 

  • Solo exhibition – The Continental Hotel, Sorrento 

  • 4Seas FAC (Frankston Arts Centre) Group show 

  • Solos exhibition - Lounge@Salt - Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 

  • ‘Observations in Watercolours: Victoria 

McCaffrey’ – Hirschfeld-Mack Centre, Geelong 

Grammar School 

2012 

  • Linden Postcard Exhibition, St Kilda 

  • Asia-Pacific Mini-Print Prize finalist – exhibited in Melbourne and Hong Kong 

  • Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento 

  • Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 

  • The Continental Hotel Art Prize, Sorrento 

 

2011 

  • Finalist Silk Cut Lino Art award 

  • ‘Seven Seas’ group exhibition - Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff  

  • Solo exhibition of Linocuts – Antipodes, Sorrento  

  • Inkteraction Print Folio Exchange exhibition touring the USA 

  • 150th Year Celebration Exhibition, The Geelong College 

 

2010 

  • Finalist - ANL Maritime Art Prize 

  • The Continental Hotel Art Prize, Sorrento 

  • Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento 

  • Best in show – Red Hill Show 

 

2009 

  • Solo Exhibition -Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento 

  • Finalist - ANL Maritime Art Prize 

  • The Continental Hotel Art Prize, Sorrento 

  • The Geelong College Art Show, Geelong 

 

2008 

  • First Prize – Golden Plains Art Show, Bannockburn (watercolour) 

  • First Prize – Red Hill Show (watercolour) 

  • The Continental Hotel Art Prize, Sorrento 

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2007 

  • Finalist - ANL Maritime Art Prize 

  • The Continental Hotel Art Prize, Sorrento 

  • The Geelong College Art Show, Geelong 

 

2004 

  • Lauriston School Art Prize – (selection by committee) 

 

2003 

  • Camberwell Rotary Art Show – (selection by committee) 

  • St. Kevins’ School Art Prize – (selection by committee)  

 

2002 

  • Finalist  - Silk Cut Lino Art Award 

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