| 1955 |
Won the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney
(with
painting Italian Family). |
| 1958 |
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Won the Women's Weekly Portrait Prize, Sydney, with a
portrait
of wife Margaret. (The photograph at left is of John and Margaret
Rigby viewing the portrait during the 1995 Queensland Art Gallery
exhibition, A Time Remembered: Art In Brisbane 1950 to 1975,
during which the portrait was on loan from the Newscastle Region
Art Gallery.) |
|
| 1959 |
Centenary Art Prize Competition, Queensland (Shipbuilding)
Caltex Centenary Art Competition (Queen Street, Brisbane) |
| 1960 |
H.C. Richards Memorial Prize, Brisbane (Cribb Island) |
| 1962 |
Royal National Association Prize, Brisbane. |
| 1963 |
Sulman Prize for 1962, Sydney (Children Dancing)
Melrose Prize, Adelaide (The Girl's Room) |
| 1965 |
Finney's (David Jones) Annual Art Prize, Brisbane (Nude
and the
Night) |
| 1966 |
Lismore Art Prize (Aboriginal Girls) |
| 1968 |
David Jones Annual Art Prize, Brisbane (A Field for a Child) |
| 1968 |
Albury Purchase Prize, New South Wales. |
| 1969 |
Armidale Figurative Prize, New South Wales. |
| 1971 |
Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Queensland.
Naracoorte Acquisitive Exhibition Prize (The Floral Dress) |
| 1974 |
Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Queensland. |
| 1994 |
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to the
Arts, Griffith University, Qld., Australia. |
 |
|
| 2001 |
Honorary Membership of the Royal Queensland Art Society. |
| 2003 |
Companion, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| NOTE |
Hung in numerous Archibald (24), Wynne (23) and Sulman Prizes
(19)
from the 1950s to the 1990s, as well
being a finalist in five biennial Moran National
Portrait
Competitions between 1988 to 2004. |
