Imogen received the Anna K. Meredith Scholarship in 2018, which allowed her to attend a summer program at Studio Arts College International in Florence Italy, where she researched painting and art history.

Her achievements include being a semi-finalist in the BP Portrait Award (London, 2018), a finalist in the New Zealand Adam Portrait Award (2018, 2020), the National Emerging Art Prize (Sydney, 2023), and the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2024). In 2023, she earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from the Queensland College of Art, graduating with first-class honors and a university medal. In 2024, she was awarded the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Prize at the Brisbane Portrait Prize for her portrait  The Artist’s Studio, depicting fellow painter Natalya Hughes.

About the artist;

Imogen is an oil painter based in Meanjin (Brisbane), originally from Otepoti (Dunedin), New Zealand. Her work centers on portraiture and creative collaborations, driven by an anthropological conceptual focus that emphasizes the experiences of everyday people and spaces in our hypermodern age. She explores the complex negotiations between digital and material realms through her intricate, realistic oil paintings.