Jim Pavlidis
Born 1964, Melbourne, Victoria.
Predominantly a printmaker, Jim Pavlidis has held 20 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Australia and the UK.
The recent works by Jim Pavlidis continue his longstanding engagement with the urban environment. Multi-coloured lithographs, watery washes soften and redefine the landscape’s solidity, presenting it instead as vulnerable terrain—an evocative reflection of the world as it is.
In 2026, Jim Pavlidis’s artist book, Seven Stories, was displayed at Paper Universe in the State Library of New South Wales. In 2025, the collaborative artist book Portals, created with George Matoulas and Kate Cole-Adams, was acquired by the State Libraries of Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales, as well as the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
Pavlidis’s work is held in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the Geelong Gallery, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, the Grafton Regional Gallery, the Tweed Regional Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
For three decades, Pavlidis worked as an artist and illustrator for The Age newspaper, and he continues to contribute a weekly watercolour illustration to Kitchen Sink Drama in Good Weekend magazine.
His work has been recognised through the receipt of several fellowships, including a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship (2010) and Churchill Fellowship (2015). In 2015, Jim won the Rick Amor Print Prize.
