Voight graduated from the National Art School, Sydney in 1968.
The following year he won the English-Speaking Union Travelling Scholarship, living in Paris with the assistance of the Power Bequest from the University of Sydney and Amsterdam.
[2] He won the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1976 with his painting "Blue Requiem", and again in 1981 for "Meditation".
The Bulletin magazine gave the work a bad review suggesting the sponsor was embarrassed to give it the $2500 prize money: As a body closely concerned with economics, and thus inflation, the bank must have been nervous about letting on that it was encouraging art at the rate of $25 a brush-stroke.
[3]That same year he won the Wynne Prize for Australian landscape from the Art Gallery of NSW for "Hills of Ravensdale".