David Hinchliffe

David has practised as a newspaper photographer, speech writer, public relations officer, and artist.

He studied at the University of Southern Queensland , the University of Queensland and has also studied painting under John Rigby, Brisbane and William Robinson.  David has paintings in private collections in the US and Europe, has had work exhibited in New York and London , and had portrait commissions in Philadelphia , US and London .

In 1972 he won the Gemini Art Award in Toowoomba and the Sunday Mail Art Award. In 1973 he won the Rotary Atlantic City Sculpture Award in the United States . He has not participated in art competitions since.

David has had 24 solo painting exhibitions, two photographic exhibitions and has participated in nine mixed exhibitions.  He produced fifty sketches for the “Toowoomba Sketchbook” (1976, Rigby Publishers) and in 1991 produced a coffee table book of photographs entitled “Two to the Valley” which won the Australian Photographic Book Award in 1992.  He took the photographs for the “Here and Now” exhibition on refugees at City Hall in February 2003.

He has been a full time elected Councillor since 1988 in Brisbane City Council, representing the inner city (Central Ward).  David has been a member of Civic Cabinet since 1991 and in 2004 was elected by Council to the position of Deputy Mayor and Majority Leader.  He is currently the Chairperson of the newly formed Urban Planning and Economic Development Committee.