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Vicki Sullivan
Press Kit
Fey Whispers of Japonica,
Oil and gold leaf on board,
H 50cm x W 40cm
Vicki Sullivan in her studio in Rye,
About Vicki Sullivan is an Australian based Contemporary Realist Painter specializing in portraiture and
figurative work. Vicki’s paintings have won awards in Australia, the USA the UK and China.
In 2014 Vicki was awarded the Title “Associate Living Master” by the Art Renewal Centre the
largest International Foundation for the promotion and education of Realist Art. Vicki studied painting in Australia and at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence Italy, with
Maestro Michael John Angel.
Vicki’s work has exhibited and won awards in many National and International exhibitions and her work can be found in Collections in the UK, the USA, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Currently Vicki works at her Studio in Rye, “Pomegranate Studio” which is open by appointment.
Vicki is a member of Portrait Artist’s Australia, The Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters, The Victorian artists Society, the Art Renewal Centre, Poets Artists and The Portrait
Society of America.
Title:Windflower,
Medium:Oil and Silver leaf on linen
Size: H 50cm x W 40cm
2019
Windflower was selected for Provocative Patterns a Poets Artists, 33 Contemporary Artsy exclusive,
Curated by Lorena Kloosterboer
Recommendation
Fleeting Lilly
oil on linen
H 102cm x 80cm
Vicki’s charcoal Drawing “Kinima” has been selected for publication in the next Strokes of Genius Book 10, by Northlight books in the USA and she has been invited to be on the Jury of judges
for Art Competitions in Australia, The USSR and France.
Kinima Charcoal on Roma paper H 52cm x W 48cm
Vicki’s students at Pomegranate Studio in Rye, Victoria Vicki has taught painting workshops in Sienna Italy and at her studio on the Mornington Peninsula in Australia, sharing her knowledge of the methods used by the Old Masters
Vicki is availiable for Portrait Sketch demonstrations and has demonstrated her portrait painting process for live audiences in public Galleries incuding the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and Burrinja Cultural Centre, in Upwey.
Work in progress portrait sketch
Women Painting Women Vicki Instigated and helped co-curate the inaugural Australian Women Painting Women
exhibition which was held at Burrinja Cultural Centre in Upwey ,Victoria and has now become a Bienniel event.
Giving insights into the relationships between the artists and their sitters (among these Yorta-Yorta soprano Deborah Cheetham, actress Sigrid Thornton, domestic violence campaigner Rosie
Batty and labour senator Penny Wong), the works touch on a variety of contemporary themes while revealing personal stories of reward and loss. Taking its inspiration from the realist painting movement in the United States, the exhibition
celebrates the talent of female portrait artists and the women who sit for them, and is the
second instalment at Burrinja after its successful show in 2016.
Press "This exhibition uniquely honours the female spirit - of realist painters and their sitters” - artist
Vicki Sullivan
“Painting with a live sitter is a kind of vivisection – a process of capturing likeness, as well
as subtler phenomena like presence, countenance and identity. “People like looking at people,”
says curator JD Mittman, “but there’s something deeper to engage with. You’re deciphering the
artist’s relationship with the person in the painting. It’s not just a reflection. It’s storytelling.”
This relationship gets more intricate if the sitter is well known, as with the portraits of Yorta
Yorta soprano Deborah Cheetham, actress Sigrid Thornton,” JD Mittman Curator of Burrinja
Cultural Centre in Artguide Australia
Portrait of John Waters oil on linen H 120cm x W 90cm
Artist Statement I am often inspired by people, nature and textiles.
I have always been drawn to realist paintings, Old Masters and especially the 19th Century
painters.
I am primarily focused on painting the figure using beautiful colors and natural textiles as a part
of my composition.
As a tonal painter trained in the Meldrum Method, which was based originally on the methods of
Velazquez, I use tonality to create form.
I enjoy using Chiarascuro as a way to bring drama to my work and I also employ glazing many
layers of paint to make my colors rich and glowing as if from the inside.
Living in Australia, where the light seems to be different to the rest of the world, I am
surrounded by strong rich colors. On the Peninsula where I live I am surrounded by the ocean,
wildlife and a wide variety of coloured birds. This beautiful natural habitat reflects into my work
in a subtle way.
In my figurative paintings, I aim to create a visual experience which feels as if my subject could
walk out of the painting and into the viewer's room bringing a particular moment in time into the
present.
Vicki painting Sigrid Thornton at Pomegranate Studio in Rye 2018
photo courtesy of Meredith Langmaid
Title:The Little Messenger
Medium:Oil on Linen
Size:H 40cm x W 30cm
Year : 2019
Vicki Sullivan CV Vicki Sullivan
EDUCATION
2014 & 2017 Angel Academy of Art Florence Italy
2009- 2014 Private tuition in the Meldrum Method with Fiona Bilbrough
2000 - 2004 Studies in Tonal Painting with Brian Armstrong
1981 & 1984 Studied Fine Art, Monash, Gippsland Campus
In 2014 Vicki was awarded the Title “Associate Living Master” by the Art Renewal Centre the
largest International Foundation for the promotion and education of Realist Art.
Her work has been selected for Strokes of Genius Book 10
Her work has won awards in the U.S.A. the U.K. China and Australia
Vicki is a member of
“The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors”
“Portrait Artists Australia”
And the Portrait Society of America
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Finalist, 29th Miniature Exhibition, Abend Gallery, Denver Colorado, USA
2019 Finalist, Kennedy prize, Adelaide, South Australia
2019 Invited to 20x20 Artelibre exhibition, Zaragoza, then MEAM Barcelona, Spain
2019 Finalist, I Observe, Rehs Gallery New York, NY USA
2019 Finalist, Pintado Hoy, European Museum of Modern Art {MEAM} Barcelona
2018 Finalist, Women painting Women, Men painting Men, RJD Gallery,Bridgehampton, New
York, USA
2018 Finalist, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize Grafton Regional Gallery
2018 Finalist, Kennedy prize, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 Women Painting Women Burrinja Cultural Centre Upwey, Vic
2018 Solo Exhibition, Tales from the studio, Mornington Peninsula Shire Foyer Gallery,
Mornington Vic
2018 Winner, of Art Renewal Centre, Publication Award
2018 Finalist, in the Percival Portrait Prize, Townsville, QLD
2017 Finalist, in the Portrait Society of America, Members competition, still life section,
2017 Winner, of the People’s choice prize in The Manning Art Prize, Naked and Nude
exhibition, NSW
2017 Second People’s choice prize in Jackson’s Mussini Oil painting Competition ,London, UK
2017 Semi-finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney, NSW
2017 Finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Gordon, NSW
2017 Honourable Mention as a Finalist in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane,
Queensland
2017 Finalist National Equine Prize, Mansfield Victoria
2016 Finalist Alice Bale Painting prize and also a finalist Alice Bale Drawing prize
2016 Finalist Art Renewal Centre 2015/2016 International Salon
2016 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton,NSW
2016 Portraits Sullivan and Bilbrough, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic
2016 Finalist Rick Amor Drawing prize,Art Gallery of Ballarat , Vic
2016 Women Painting Women Exhibition, Burrinja cultural Centre Upwey, Vic
2015 Semi-finalist Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney, NSW
2015 “Changing Perspectives 2015” Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters
2015 Finalist Black Swan Portrait Prize, Perth WA
2015 Finalist Gallipoli Art Prize Sydney NSW
2014 Awarded title of “Associate living Master by the Art Renewal Centre”
2014 Finalist Art Renewal Centre 2013/2014 International Salon
2014 Angel Academy of Art Exhibition, Florence Italy
2014 Finalist Hidden Faces of the Archibald Salon Des Refuses, Melbourne, Victoria
2014 Finalist Alice Bale Travelling Scholarship, Caulfield Vic
2014 Finalist Alice Bale Painting Award
2014 Finalist Alice Bale Drawing Award
2014 Finalist Portrait Artists Australia Exhibition, Australian Embassy Washington USA
2013 Semi-finalist Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney NSW
2013 Black Swan Portrait Prize, Perth WA
2013 Finalist Hidden Faces of the Archibald Salon Des Refuses, Melbourne, Victoria
2013 “Changing Perspectives” MSWPS, Victorian Artists Society
2013 “Multicultural Australia” Parliament House NSW, Portrait Artists Australia Annual
exhibition
2013 Finalist Art Renewal Centre 2012/2013 International Salon
2012 Finalist Alice Bale Travelling Scholarship & Painting Prize
2012 Finalist Alice Bale Painting Prize
2012 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award, Melbourne, Victoria
2012 Finalist The Mortimore Prize, Dubbo, New South Wales
2012 Finalist Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, Bega Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2012 Finalist Hidden Faces, Salon Des Refuses of the Archibald Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria
2011 Finalist The Len Fox Painting Award Exhibition, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria
2009 The Collectors Exhibition, Temple Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria
2008 The Lou White Art Prize, DVA, Melbourne, Victoria
AWARDS
2011 First Prize Best in Show “Alla Prima” Morning Sun Vineyard Art Exhibition
2011 First Prize “Mario’s Choice Prize “ Morning Sun Vineyard Art Exhibition
2012 Second Prize Oak hill Gallery Annual Members Exhibition
2012 Second Prize “Little Archie’s Exhibition” Oak Hill Gallery Mornington Vic
2013 Second Prize Oak Hill Gallery Illustration and Drawing competition, Mornington Vic
2013 Highly Commended Camberwell Art Show, Camberwell, Vic
2013 People’s Choice Prize, Hidden faces of the Archibald Hilton South Wharf Melbourne
2015 Winner, Constance Wu Prize Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters
2016 First Prize, A Singular Creation, Feeling Blue 5 International Competition, USA
2016 Winner Equine Prize, Flinders Art Show, Flinders Victoria
2016 Honourable Mention MSWPS Member Exhibition Changing Perspectives
2016 Third prize people’s choice in Jackson’s “Drawn In” competition London, UK
2017 Winner of A Singular Creation “Solitude” competition, USA
2017 Winner of the People’s choice prize in The Manning Art Prize, Naked and Nude exhibition,
NSW
2017 Second People’s choice prize in Jackson’s Mussini Oil painting Competition ,London, UK
2018 Art Renewal Centre Salon Publication award, Collections Magazine China
CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2019 Collection of The Art Renewal Centre U.S.A.
2019 Collection of Swinburne University, Hawthorne, Victoria
2018 Deborah Cheetham, Opera Singer, Collection
2017 Kevin Cosgrove , former Australian Trade Commission Consul General Auckland New
Zealand
2016 Jane Alexander,Director of Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2015 Liane Keegan, Opera Singer Collection
2015 Kerry Armstrong Collection
2015 Luisa Mancini and Giovanni Morra Collection Venice Italy
2015 Andrew and Cynzia Burnes Collection CEO of AOT Group
2013 Steve Bastoni collection
2011 Robbie Brozin founder of “Nando’s” Global
2011 Fletchers Real Estate Sorrento
2010 Multivision Real Estate
2010 Sagacity
2008 The Sphere Advertising Agency, Richmond Victoria
2007 Tim Buckingham, Partner in International Law Firm DLA Piper, UK
2006 Michael Morehead, Lawyers And Associates, Portsea, Vic
2003 John Ihan {Crazy John}
Publications
2019 Provocative Patterns, a 33 Contemporary publication Curated By Loreena Kloosterboer
2019 The Figure in Art , Goss 183, Arsty Exclusive, curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez
2019 The Art of the Nude, 33 Contemporary curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez
2019 Poets Artists, Painting the Figure Now ll
2019 I Observe, Rehs Contemporary Gallery, Poets Artists
2019 Adorn Me Curated by Carol Hodes, Poets Artists online exclusive, USA
2018 Figurative Realism, curated by Dirk Diminsky, 100th edition Poets Artists USA
2018 Arte Y Libertad Xll, Spain
2018 Strokes of Genius Book 10, Northlight Books, USA
2018 Collections Magazine ,China
2018 Anything But painting the figure, curated by Lorena Kloosterboer, Poets Artists, USA
2018 Poets Artists ,The New Nude Curated by David Lehman and Walt Morton
2018 Studio LaPrimative Art Zine
2018 Peninsula Essence Magazine May issue
2017 Southern Peninsula News 8/8/17 page 6
2016 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery “What’s on”
2016 Creative Artist Magazine
2016 Artelibre (Spain)
2016 Art Almanac, May edition
2016 ARC Salon
2016 Profile magazine Issue 72
2015 Artelibre Spain
2014 Portia, The Annual journal of Victorian Women Lawyers
2018 ARC Salon
2014 ARC Salon
2013 ARC Salon
2012 ARC Salon
WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS
2019 Ambassador of the week, Realism Today, Streamline Publishing Download article
2019 Poets Artists , 100 Contemporary figurative artists on Instagram download article
2019 Fine Art Connoisseur ,March 5, 2019, Fine Art Today “I Observe” download article
2019 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, March 6 2019 “I Observe”
interview by Marie Larkin download article
2019 Skill Based Art Video interview with Emilio Longo January 19, 2019 watch interview
2018 2018 Artguide Australia website
2018 What’s Hamptoning, Blog Westhampton New York USA, “Realistic Art Magic
interview by Laura Connelly download article
RADIO & PODCAST INTERVIEWS
2019 Emilio Longo, Skill based Art
2018 3MDR The Good Life, Anne Creber
2018 Drawn to Win podcast with host Don Victor
2016 3RPP Arts about, Sally Baillieu
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
2019 Michael Klein
2019 Daniel Keys
2004 David Chen
Title: Wild One
Medium:Oil on linen
Size:H 45cm x W 35cm
Year: 2019
Finalist in the Kennedy prize for Beauty, Adelaide , South Australia
Title: The Journey Begins
Medium:oil on linen
Size:H 50cm x W 40cm
Year 2019
Winner of the Art Renewal Center Purchase Award, Collection of the Art Renewal Center, USA
Vicki with Graeme Goldsmith, Former Chancellor of Swinburne University, Hawthorne, Victoria, unveiling her portrait
Commission for the Swinburne University Collection
Vicki accepts portrait Commissions Worldwide
Contact Info. Vicki Sullivan
42 st Andrews drive,
Rye, Victoria,
Australia, 3941
Email [email protected]
Website,
http://vickisullivan.com/
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