DENISE CROSS – Visual Artist
1994-2025
Visual Artist & Secondary Visual Arts Educator
Artist Bio
Denise Cross is a visual artist undertaking her MVA, working primarily in acrylic painting and drawing media. She acquires elements from symbolism and realism, taking her work through a process of stylisation throughout her folio of still-life, portrait and landscape paintings. The central driving force to Denise’s artwork is to bring to light hidden stories as well as bringing to life what others may perceive as ordinary, providing a platform to see inward beauty rise to the surface.
She is also deeply motivated in providing opportunities to bring hope, appreciation, healing, or to challenge preconceived ideas or notions. Denise Cross has been a finalist in a series of reputable art competitions, such as Brisbane Portrait Awards and Redlands Art Awards, regularly contributing works to solo and group exhibitions, within Queensland and Bangkok. She has been a secondary art teacher for 25 years, completing a BFA and M.Ed.
AWARDS & PRIZES
2025 Finalist, All Creatures and Wild Things, Petrie Terrace Gallery, Brisbane
2025 Finalist, Harold & Agnes Richardson Drawing Prize, Petrie Terrace Gallery, Brisbane
2024 Finalist, Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, Redlands
2024 QRRA Emerging Artists Exhibition, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane
2024 Brisbane Portrait Awards: Emerging Artists Exhibition, Petrie Terrace Gallery, Petrie Terrace, Brisbane
2023 Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Awards, Brisbane Power House, Brisbane
2023/24 Finalist, Brisbane Rotary Art Awards, Eagle Lane, Brisbane
2023 Finalist, Lethbridge Gallery Small Scale Art Awards, 136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington
2022/23/24 Finalist, The Doyles Art Award, School of Arts Memorial Hall, Mudgeeraba
2022/23/24 Finalist, Ipswich Art Awards, Dandiiri Room Level 1, Ipswich City
2022 Finalist, Percival Animal Portrait Awards, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2018 Finalist, Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
1991 Finalist, Suncorp Art Awards Exhibition, Brisbane
1988 Karl and Gertrude Langer Memorial Prize (Fine Art Painting) QCA, Sevenhills
