Background:

Richard Byrnes is a practising artist, having held 22 solo and over 100 group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. He teaches regular sculpture and drawing classes at Workshop Arts Centre  and Waverley Woollahra Art School in Sydney . In addition he teaches workshops in Bronze casting , clay sculpture and Travel Sketchbook.

Richards works are included in the National Gallery, University of NSW, Artbank, Macquarie University, Manning, Orange and Bathurst regional gallery and various regional gallery collections. Richard’s public sculpture commissions can be seen in North Sydney, Marrickville and Macquarie University. He is represented by the Robin Gibson Gallery in Sydney. He is a previous winner of the Hunters Hill, Blacktown, Waverley, Thursday Plantation and Manning Sculpture Prizes and is a winner of the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship and Paris Studio Residency.