Published Illustrations & Exhibitions
ADDITIONAL PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATIONS
2000. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Vol.46(1) Wet Tropics Issue, Maps and illustrations used extensively in this volume including:-
p.181 Monteitheolus fijiensis Howden & Storey (A small Aphodiine, Scarab beetle from Fiji, with an extraordinary grooved body form and twisted hind legs)
p.213 Clidicus abbotensis O'Keefe (A relatively giant species of the normally small Scymaenid family of beetles found on isolated Mt Abbot, near Bowen and not known from anywhere else)
p.300 Tibiospina darlingtoni Sinclair (A Tessaratomid bug from the mountains of North Queensland)
p.350 Aptenocanthon jimara Storey (A dung beetle from the Northern Territory described from one specimen)
p.351 Aptenocanthon kabura Storey (A dung beetle from Mt Finnigan, near Cooktown) & Aptenocanthon spp. pygidium (fig.2)
2001. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution Vol.1(1) Cover and p.18 Caxtonana CM06 (a darkling beetle from the summit of Mt Bellenden Ker, North Queensland) in: {Patrice Bouchard & David K. Yeates "Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian Coelometopini (Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae); a quantitative cladistic analysis with a review of biology" pp.17-43.}
2003. The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration, Hodges, Elaine R.S., Editor, 2nd edition. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., Fig. 2-38. Page 55. The above illustration, now Apterotheca pustulosa (Carter, 1924), set up to show use of overlay.
2003. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Vol.49(1):441-445. Matthews, E.G.”Aoupinia, a remarkable new genus of Adeliini from New Caledonia (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)”. Aoupinia pseudohelea Matthews on page 442 and cover.
EXHIBITIONS
1984+ Several group exhibitions with Queensland Wildlife Artists
1995 Group exhibition, 'Botanical & Entomological Illustration in Queensland', Contemporary Art & Design Gallery, Woolloongabba
1996 Group Exhibition, ‘Still Life’, Schubert Galleries, Marina Mirage, Gold Coast
1999 Group Exhibition, 'Insectasite', University of Southern Queensland, Visual Arts, Toowoomba
2001-2 Several works exhibited as part of the exhibition "Backyard: It's Alive". Lottie's Place, Global Arts Link, Ipswich
2002 "The Beauty of Bugs", solo exhibition at Gladstone Regional Gallery and Museum and Tondoon Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre.
Group Exhibition, ‘Incepta 2002 – Science Art Exhibition’, Gallery Two, Metro Arts Centre
Brisbane.
2003 Solo Exhibition, ‘Geoff Thompson – Insect Illustrations’, State Library of Queensland,
Brisbane
2003 Group exhibition, one piece in GNSI Members’ Exhibition, Denver Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Colorado, USA
DISPLAYS
1986 Drawings in Reference Centre (now Inquiry Centre) Queensland Museum, Southbank
1994 Drawings of Magnetic Termite castes, Amitermes laurensis (King, Queen, Winged,
Worker, Soldier) and a red Meat Ant Iridomyrmex sp. for Kakadu Visitor Centre display,
Northern Territory.
1994 Drawings done with Robert Allen for the platypus house, Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria.
2003 Drawings of insects and layout of Dodd case in ‘Discover Queensland’, Queensland
Museum, Southbank campus, Brisbane
2003 Original drawings of insects in 'Celebrating 140 Years' Queensland Museum, Southbank
campus, Brisbane
PRIZES
1996 Illustration prizes awarded at First Joint
Conference of the Australian and New Zealand
Entomological Societies, Christchurch N.Z.
Open Colour – First Prize
Open Black and White – Second Prize
1996 Illustration prize awarded by The
Entomological Society Of NSW - Second Prize
1998 Australian Entomological Society Illustration Prize awarded at its 29th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference.
Black and White – First Prize