Imogen received the Anna K. Meredith Scholarship in 2018, which allowed her to attend a summer program at Studio Arts College International in Florence Italy, where she studied painting and art history.

Her achievements include being a semi-finalist in the BP Portrait Award (London, 2018), a finalist in the New Zealand Adam Portrait Award (2018, 2020), the National Emerging Art Prize (Sydney, 2023), and the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2024). In 2023, she earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from the Queensland College of Art, graduating with first-class honours and a university medal. In 2024 she was awarded the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Prize at the Brisbane Portrait Prize for her portrait The Artist’s Studio, depicting fellow artist Natalya Hughes.

About the artist;

Imogen Corbett is an artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane), originally from Ōtepoti (Dunedin), New Zealand. Her practice primarily explores how everyday people navigate physical and online spaces within the hypermodern age. Through figurative storytelling across digital and material forms, she examines the tensions between intimacy, identity, and contemporary modes of connection.