Belinda Sims is an Australian artist and illustrator based in country NSW. She paints and illustrates a diverse range of subjects for exhibition, collection and by client request, all with an authentic aesthetic.
Belinda Leigh Sims worked at a Bondi based Cartooning Studio as the head caricaturist and illustrator for 6 years after she graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. After art school, Belinda has had several comics published with Christian Education Publications and independent collaborative producers. She went on to develop her artistic style after moving to western Sydney in 2009 to work with families in the Blacktown area which motivated her to pursue her artistic research into visual representation of the complex inner lives of people. In her free time, she worked as a freelance artist, illustrator and designer.
In 2019 she was the recipient of the runner up best local artist title at the Blacktown Art Prize for her intimate portrait of her friend, the widow of OAM recipient and former Blacktown Mayor Leo Kelly, Janet. After a move to country NSW, Belinda has expanded her visual art practice to paint more intimate and diverse subjects, and has recently been a finalist in the Gallipoli Art Prize, The Kennedy Art Prize, the Prospect Portrait Prize, the 2021 Blacktown City Art Prize, the Bluethumb Art Prize, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize and The 2022 Percivals. Recently Belinda placed as a runner up in the 2022 Gunnybalds Art Prize.