Chris Huber A.S.M.A.
Recognised as one of Australia’s most outstanding landscape artists, Chris Huber arrived in Australia in 1955 where she has lived ever since.
Inspired by the frescoes on the ancient walls in Italy, medieval hilltop farmhouses of Tuscany and fishing villages of Liguria, Chris Huber has travelled the world for many years to fuel her creative appetite, as well as drawing inspiration from the diversity of the Australian landscape. These varied influences, together with a love of interior design and architecture, have shaped her technique to create truly unique artworks.
Chris’s versatility and rich yet subtle palette has resulted in her paintings being represented in private and corporate collections all over the world, and images of her work are constantly selected for reproduction into fine art prints, calendars and cards, as well as collectors’ and gift products sold nationally and internationally.
With the changing demand for more contemporary artworks reflecting today’s modern design and architecture in Australia, Chris has also been painting a vibrant range of deeply layered, three dimensional artworks in collage, using tiles, metal, stones, and special compounds with wonderful colour mixes, all the while maintaining traditional methods of foundation and application to achieve unique professional results. This is one of the reasons she has been selected as an exhibiting member of the Australian Society of Marine Artists.
The desire to create a range of paintings with the specific aim of outdoor durability saw Chris dedicate time to working with a number of chemists to produce a special compound never before used which is added to the art materials to protect them from all types of weather – further proof of Chris’s commitment to quality in her art.
“Fleeting Rain”
Valuation from the American Art Awards 2022.
“Overlooking Manly Harbour, QLD”
Valuation from the American Art Awards 2022.
3rd Place Category 35 Realism / Landscape
“Rolling Hills of Tuscany”
Valuation from the American Art Awards 2022.
2rd Place Category 35 Realism / Landscape
Achievements
Awards
By Invitation
Young Masters Gallery, Brisbane
Brisbane Commonwealth Games Exhibition, 1982
Awards
1978 Nundle 1st Traditional Landscape
1978 Drummoyne 1st
1983 Blacktown City 1st Agricultural Arts Award & Council Open Purchase Award
2007 d'Arcy Doyle landscape art award 3rd prize; many highly commended
2013 1st Prize Logan Rotary Arts Fest
2013 Finalist Australian Artist Magazine
2013 Brookfield Art Show First Prize Mixed Media
2013 Selected to the Florence Biennale
2014 Finalist-Figurative Exhibition, Brisbane
2019 2nd Prize Kenilworth Art Exhibition
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Gallery Landscape Exhibition
Brookfield Art Show 1st Prize Mixed Media
2021 - Exhibiting Member of Australian Society of Marine Artists
2022 AMERICAN ART AWARDSCATEGORY 35. REALISM / LANDSCAPE
2ND PLACE - TIE CHRIS HUBER AUSTRALIA “Rolling Hills Of Tuscany” 100x110cm Oil on Belgian linen.
3RD PLACE - TIE CHRIS HUBER AUSTRALIA “Overlooking Manly Harbour” 66x101cm Oil on Belgian linen.
2023 - Finalist at the Lethbridge Landscape Exhibition Paddington and Riparian Plaza
2023 -Finalist at the Doyles Art Exhibition
2023- Brisbane Rotary Exhibition
2022-2023 ASMA Finalist
2023 -and Curators Choice Certificate
Media Articles/Television Features
1988 The Bulletin Magazine bicentennial edition
1994/96 Getaway Channel 9 Hayman Island (Art In)
1996 Don Burke Show Channel 9 Feature – ‘An Artist and her Garden’
1999 Channel 9 Today Show
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
By Invitation Young Masters Gallery, Brisbane
1975 Cocks Gallery, Sydney
1979 Strawberry Hill Gallery, Sydney
1979 Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Young Masters Gallery, Brisbane
1982 Commonwealth Games Exhibition, Brisbane
1982-84 Prouds Gallery, Sydney
1985 Burns Kaldy Gallery, Sydney
1986-91 sole representation Barry Stern Galleries
1993 Lakeside, Canberra
1994 Prouds Gallery, Sydney
1994 Ansett Golden Wings, Sydney, Perth, ACT
1995 Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
1995 Baronia Gallery, Sydney
1996 Mall Gallery, London, UK
1996 Greenwich Galleries, Sydney
1996 Angelora Fine Art Galleries, Sydney
1996 Dubai Convention Centre, Dubai, UAE in association with Australian Trade Commssion
1996 The Convent Gallery, Daylesford
1996-97 - 1998-99 Duke of Wellington Art Gallery, Sydney
Bendamora Gallery, Katoomba & Mittagong
2000 Manly Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Booval House, Booval
2000/04 The Grandview Gallery, Brisbane
2004-06 Galloway Galleries, Brisbane
Other
Bibliography
A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia
Max Germaine Craftsman House 1991
Artists, Galleries of Australia
Max Germaine 1978, 1982-1990
Who's Who in Australasia 1988 Cambridge, England
Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists
Thorpe in association with the National Association for the Visual Arts 1995
Commissioned
By the Bradford Exchange Ltd Chicago, USA and Sydney. Paintings to be reproduced on a series of collector plates.
Within the private collections of:
Europe, USA,
Korea, North Africa and Australia,
Tunisian Consulate, North Africa
Corporate Representation
Qantas Airways Ltd, Sydney
Davis Consolidated Industries, Sydney
Volvo Automotive Corporation, Sweden
Readers Digest Association, Sydney
Bradmill Textiles Operations, Sydney
Australian Gas Light Company, Sydney
Hayman Island Resort Complex, Queensland
Tunisian Consulate, North Africa
Sea World Marine Complex, Queensland
Bond Corporation, Sydney
Prohang Iron & Steele Co. Pty Ltd, South Korea
Amatil Pty Ltd, Sydney
Opal Australia, Bond Street, Sydney
Hosking Printing, Sydney
Ansett Airlines
Bradford Exchange
The Hills Motorway Ltd
Tooth Brewery, Sydney
Australian Gas Light Company, Sydney
Hawkins Garden Centre
Ridley Australia
Senshukai Co Ltd, Tokyo, Osaka
The Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co, Sydney & Japan
Metway Bank-Queensland
Bolan Solicitors Sydney
Berkleys Banking Company, Sydney
QMBSA
Nemmco Ltd., Mansfield Queensland
Represented
Gallery 631 Bowen Hills, Brisbane
Online - www.buyartnow.com.au
Judge of Art Exhibition