Chris Huber

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 of Italy, the medieval hilltop farmhouses of Tuscany, and the 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 her love of interior design and architecture, have shaped her technique, creating 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.

Awards and Recognition - 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
• 2014 Brookfield Art Show 1st Prize Mixed Media
• 2019 Kenilworth Art Exhibition 2nd Prize
• 2021 Lethbridge Gallery Landscape Exhibition – Finalist
• 2022 AMERICAN ART AWARDS CATEGORY 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 Curator's 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 - 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 the Australian Trade Commission
• 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

• The Manly Gallery, Manly
• Judge of Art Exhibition