Competitions
2011 Goondiwindi Art Show 28th May - Winner $5,000.00 prize money and sold works
2009 Art Scrawl Hunter Valley June 6th and 7th "13 lucky" competition
artwork; oil on canvas "11 people plus twins therefore Lucky"
2009 Leap Frog ability - overcoming disadvantaged people 0437 145 329
Sophie will be painting a portrait to be hung in February 2010
2009 Rosville Public School art show - 19th September 2009 Sydney North Shore
2009 Newcastle Grammar School art show - September NEXIS art show
'Hunter Valley by Night' 2007 First prize
Sale of Painting; $5,000
Prize money: $2,000
Runner up
Prize money:$500.00
'Unicef 1986
First prize
Tafe Orange – painting and drawing competition 1989
First prize
Prize money: $1,000
drawing was used in marketing program for the college magazine
Education
Billy Blue School of Art Sydney – Graphic Design
National Art School Sydney – Thinking outside of the square
Julian Ashton School of Art Sydney – drawing
Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York – contemporary art in New York, business studies --2009
New York is the undisputed centre of the art community in the United States and globally. The course "contemporary art in New York" includes scholars, curators, and Sotheby's own specialists whose outstanding academic and professional credentials personify the incomparable breadth and depth of the course. Sotheby's will help Sophie examine the growth of the New York contemporary art scene, its ideas, artists and key players. Sophie will also visit cutting edge galleries, leading museums, private collections and visit the behind the scenes at Sotheby's.
Contemporary Art in New York Dr. Melanie Marino.
Dr. Marino received her PhD from Cornell University, an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a BA from Columbia University. Her research focuses on conceptual art and photography and she has written on the work of Rachel Whiteread, Gabriel Orozco, Daniel Buren, and Vito Acconci, among many others. She has extensive teaching experience in the field of contemporary art and has also been a Curatorial Assistant at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Whitney Museum of American art.
Melanie has also received several fellowships including a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship at New York University; a Helena Rubenstein Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art; a Sage Fellowship at Cornell University and a Fellowship from the Center for Twenty-First Century Studies at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Schooling
Pymble Ladies College Sydney
Kinross Wolaroi College, Orange
Art Classes for adults and children will commence February 2010 for children and Adults.