Vicki McInnes

Biography

Vicki McInnes May 2024

Vicki McInnes is a Melbourne artist skilled in realist painting and drawing, working across various genres, and known for her contemporary approach to realism in drawings and paintings in oils.

Originally from Alphington in Melbourne, her parents’ house was built not far from the home and studio of her grandparents: William Beckwith McInnes (who was awarded the Wynne landscape prize in 1918 and the first four Archibald portrait prizes in 1921-1924, and went on to win it a further three times) and Violet McInnes who also had a successful career as a highly regarded painter.

She is drawn to familiar landscapes, particularly the rivers and coastlines of Melbourne and Gippsland. Her work illustrates her awareness of the nature of light, as it illuminates daily and seasonal change and transition.

Along with a lifetime of drawing and painting from the observed, she has studied painting formally at Montsalvat in Melbourne’s northeast. Here she developed her continuing interest in still life and the self-portrait.

Her work has been selected for awards and shown in solo exhibitions at Montsalvat and Eltham’s Light Factory gallery, and in art shows including Victorian Art Society, Bale Prize, Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters, and Waterhouse Prize.

She lives in Melbourne, where she teaches and runs workshops in drawing and painting.