RYAN WILLIAM DAFFURN
Education
2012 Australian National University AU
2005 Julian Ashton Art School AU
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Hill End Entangled Lethbridge Gallery AU
2024 Wandering Maunsell Wickes AU
2023 Ever Evolving Sauerbier House AU
2022 New Work Maunsell Wickes AU
2020 Bayside Landscapes Maunsell Wickes AU
2016 Walking Tapestry Ernst & Young DE
Joint Exhibitions
2019 Glossolalia Lethbridge Gallery AU
2016 Probed Light KTR/Active-Art DE
2015 3 Painters Old Museum AU
Awards / Grants
2023 Hornsby Art Prize WA&CC AU
Lethbridge 20 000 Lethbridge Gallery AU
Major Grant ESU (Victoria Branch) AU
2020 QLD Figurative Award RQAS
2017 Art Projects for Individuals Australia Council
2015 Individuals Grant Arts Queensland
Crowdfunding (Leipzig: LIA) Kickstarter
2014 Best In Show RQAS Annual Members
Works On Paper RQAS Annual Members
2008 AME Bale Travelling Scholarship
2005 Robert Lee Gay Brereton Prize AGNSW
2000 Dobell Scholarship JAAS
Residencies
2023 Sauerbier House AU
2018 Hill End BRAG AU
2016 Atelierhaus Salzamt AT
Neo Rauch Grafik Stiftung DE
2015 LIA Spinnerei DE
Collections
University of the Sunshine Coast AU
Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane AU
Chevalier Yves Hernot Sydney AU
Atelier für Radierung Leipzig DE
Kreativ Werkstatt Aschersleben DE
Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) DE
Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS) AU
Sculptors Queensland (SQ) AU
Private Collections worldwide
Group Exhibitions
2026 Sense of Place Mezzanine 55 Gallery AU
Internationales Sommeratelier Kreativ Werkstatt DE
2025 KAAF Korean Cultural Center AU
AME Alice Bale Awards Glen Eira Council AU
Power & Intimacy Cudo Gallery UK
AWI Royal Botanic Gardens AU
The Figure Lethbridge Gallery AU
Naked & Nude Manning Regional Gallery AU
Rotary Art Show Central Plaza One AU
Flower Narratives Lethbridge Gallery AU
Landscape Prize Lethbridge Gallery AU
2024 HERE / NOW Orange Regional Gallery AU
Bayside Acquisitive Bayside Gallery AU
Lethbridge 20 000 Lethbridge Gallery AU
Lethbridge Landscape Lethbridge Gallery AU
End of year exhibition Maunsell Wickes AU
2023 Lethbridge Landscape Lethbridge Gallery AU
Students of Keith Dewell Studio 34 Berry AU
2022 Lethbridge 20 000 Lethbridge Gallery AU
2021 Fellows Exhibition RQAS AU
2020 End of year exhibition Maunsell Wickes AU
2019 End of year exhibition Maunsell Wickes AU
Brisbane Portrait Prize Powerhouse AU
Naked & Nude Manning Regional Gallery AU
KAAF Korean Cultural Center AU
Blacktown City Art Prize Blacktown Arts AU
Clayton Utz Art Award AU
Du Rietz Art Awards Gympie Regional AU
Memory & Landscape Allison K Bellinger AU
The Naked Truth RQAS AU
2018 Leipzig in Hamburg Greskewitz-Kleinitz
Sedimente Werkschau Spinnerei DE
Spring Spinnerei Rundgang Spinnerei DE
CURIO Lethbridge Gallery AU
Redlands Art Award Redland Art Gallery AU
KAAF Korean Cultural Center AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Gallery AU
QLD Figurative Award RQAS AU
H&A Richardson Drawing Prize RQAS AU
The End Festival Hill End AU
2017 Strong Enough Galerie Irrgang DE
Affects on Absorption LIA Spinnerei Rundgang DE
PARADIGMA Blickwechsel Tapetenwerk DE
Cheer-io Heiser Gallery AU
Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize Montsalvat AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Gallery AU
Annual Members Exhibition RQAS AU
2016 If on a Winters Night a Traveler LIA Spinnerei DE
International Residents Neo Rauch Stiftung DE
PARADIGMA BlickwechselTapetenwerk DE
AME Alice Bale Awards Glen Eira Council AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Gallery AU
Glencore Percival Portrait Prize Townsville Reg. AU
Wyndham Art Prize Wyndham Art Gallery AU
2015 Unheimlich LIA Spinnerei Rundgang DE
2014 Journeys West Orange Regional Gallery AU
Redlands Art Award Redland Art Gallery AU
QLD Figurative Award RQAS AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Gallery AU
AME Alice Bale Awards Glen Eira Council AU
ARC Yinnar Drawing Prize AU
2011 Evolving Traditions Redcliffe City Gallery AU
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Adams, Kirkegard, McNeil Hill EndEntangled Bonfire Books
C Caddell Broken Words Bonfire Books
J Nrman Sleep Capricorn Bonfire Books
2023 Henry Lawson Pinter’s Son Jim Bonfire Books
Sauerbier Residency City of Onkaparinga
2022 C Caddell The True Gods Attend You Bonfire Books
2018 L Lynn, AL Rolland Leipzig in Hamburg GK Galerie
2017 M Lewis/ S Van Tree People. Vol. 1 Paper Earth
2016 PARADIGMA Blickweschsel II Tapetenwerk
S Fitzgerald Percivals P Tucker Regional Gallery
Commissions
Chevalier Yves Hernot FRSN
Royal Queensland Art Society
Advance Australia
Various private commissions
Teaching
2023 Sauerbier House AU
2019 Private classes AU
2018 Academy of Visionary Art AT
2017 Private workshops AT
2010-15 Atelier Art Classes AU
2013 Queensland Rail AU
2011 Westpac Bank AU
2010 QCA Griffith University AU
2002-06 Julian Ashton Art School AU
MEDIA
CULTURAL COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2025- Member Australian Watercolour Institute
2024- Member RSNSW
2023 Judge: Surf Art Prize Onkaparinga Council
2019-22 Member RQAS
Fellow RQAS
Sub-Committee RQAS
2011-14 Secr., V Pres., Events coordi. Salisbury Studios
2010-15 Classical Fine Arts school Atelier Art Classes