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                   Paul McDonald Smith
    ARTIST


                   Honours and Awards

                   (Selected major and recent awards)

    Over one hundred awards for painting, including: Camberwell Travel Scholarship 1986, V.A.S.
    Signatory Diploma 1991, Norwich Landscape Award 1992 Drouin 1993, Ballarat Judges Award 1993,
    Strathmore 1993, The Heidelberg Prize 1994, Preston 1994, Brighton City Council Award 1994,
    Leongatha Art Award 1994, Bendigo 1995, Drysdale 1995, R.S.P.C.A. – National Australia Bank Award
    1995, Ringwood – The Maroondah City Council Award 1995, Wimmera 1996, Ballarat Society of Artists
    Award 1996, Korumburra Award 1997, Mt View 1997, Grand Winner- Wangaratta Art Competition
    1997, Outstanding Achievement Award (UK)1998, V.A.S. Fellowship 1998, Sorrento 1998, Drysdale
    1998, Camberwell Club Award 1998, Peninsula Arts Society 1998, Mt Eliza Zonta 1998, Brighton 1998,
    Norman Kaye Memorial Medallion 1998 & 1999, Distinguished Leadership Award (USA) 1999, Bright Art
    Competition 1999, Mt Waverley 1999, Mildura 1999, Royal Overseas League 2000,  Admitted to “The
    Honours List” “2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century”, IBC, UK 2001, Admitted
    to "The Honours List",  "Who's Who in the 21st Century", IBC, UK 2001, Cardinia Shire Award 2001, VAS
    Artist of the Year Award & Medallion 2001, Alexandra Open Shire Award 2002

    Emerald 2005, Warragul 2005, Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) 2005,  Bright 2006, Balranald
    2006, Cobram 2007, E. J. Aldridge Memorial Award - Wangaratta 2007.

    Many others.
















    "Beauty itself, doth of itself persuade the eyes of men, without an orator."

    William Shakespeare
"Chiaroscuro and Calligraphy - Koonung Creek"
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    Artist of the Year Award 2001
        Victorian Artists Society

    This very prestigious award is granted on peer vote. The artist receiving the greatest number of votes for
    the standard of work exhibited at the Society throughout the whole year earns the right to the
    distinguished title.

    The winner is ultimately decided as all finalists in the competition gather to vote at the much-awaited
    "Artist of the Year" exhibition in November of each year.

    In 2001The award was presented to Paul by the then Victorian Minister for the Arts, The Hon. Mary
    Delahunty,MLA. A medallion, the work of renowned Australian sculptor Stanley Hammond MBE, cast in
    bronze and mounted, commemorates the award and is presented to the winner.



    Norman Kaye Memorial Medallion 1998 and 1999
    Victorian Artists Society

    This award is granted to the artist receiving the greatest number of votes from fellow finalists at the VAS
    Artist of the Year exhibition. It is sponsored by the Kaye family in memory of the late Norman Kaye, a
    great supporter of the VAS and founder of Camden Art. This award is also commemorated by a bronze
    medallion sculpted by Stanley Hammond MBE.

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"Roses and Carnations"
"Arrangement with Gourds"
"Pomegranates"