The Artist
Working from her studio in Red Hill, Queensland, Australia, Mel’s primary focus is oil painting – with a passion for portraiture, the female form and for interior paintings. She is celebrated for her colourful and dynamic interior paintings celebrating women.
Mel has undertaken various Art courses and workshops including at the National Art School in Sydney and the London Art Academy.
She has exhibited in many group exhibitions and had a solo exhibition in 2019. She has won various art prizes and been finalist in many over the past 10 years. She now paints full time.
She was awarded BA Hons (Opera Studies) 2004 Manchester University UK.
Member of Royal Queensland Art Society. Secretary of RQAS State Committee and Secretary RQAS Brisbane Branch.
AWARDS/FINALIST
2020
- Finalist Royal Queensland Art Society Biennial Figurative Art Prize
2019
- Winner – Tap Gallery Women on Boards IWD Art Prize
- Finalist – Randwick City Council Art Prize
2018
- Runner-up – Randwick Art Society Art Show
- 3rd prize – Randwick City Council Art Prize
2017
- Finalist – Georges River Art Prize –Hurstville Art Gallery
- Finalist – Randwick City Council Art Prize
2016
- Winner and Runner-up – Little Bay Gallery – Portrait Competition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Foyer Gallery, Bondi Junction 28 September – 28 October 2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
- RQAS Biennial Figurative Art Prize
- RQAS Gift of Art Exhibition
2019
- Winner – Tap Gallery Women on Boards IWD Art Prize
- Finalist – Randwick City Council Art Prize
2018
- Randwick Art Society – Sydney Children’s Hospital
- Runner-up – Randwick Art Society Art Show
- 3rd prize – Randwick City Council Art Prize
2017
- Finalist – Georges River Art Prize
- Finalist – Randwick Art Prize
- Little Bay Gallery – Interiors Exhibition
- Pyrmont Art Prize Exhibition
- Tap Gallery Exhibition
- Tap Gallery International Women’s Day Art Prize
2016
- Winner and Runner-up – Portrait Exhibition, Little Bay Gallery
- Little Bay Gallery – Surrealist Exhibition
2015
- Little Bay Gallery – Gardens and Flowers Exhibition
2014
- Tap Gallery International Women’s Day Art Prize
2013
- Pyrmont Art Prize Exhibition
- Tap Gallery Out-loud Art Prize Exhibition
- Tap Gallery International Women’s Day Art Prize
2012
- Tap Gallery Summer Show
- Tap Art Gallery Darlinghurst International Women’s Day Art Prize Exhibition
ART EDUCATION
2018: London Art Academy Master Class in Figure Painting with Alan McGowan in London UK
2017: Australian National Art School Summer School David Briggs – Anatomy for Life Drawing
Various courses in drawing and oil painting – Art institutions in Sydney.
Guided by Australian artists Teresa Castellanos 2013 – 2020; Christopher Horder 2014; Stephen Kaldor 2008 – 2013.
