TEGAN COLLIVER
Tegan was born in Melbourne and quickly developed a love of creating art at school. By age 10 she wanted oil painting lessons with a private teacher but was advised to wait until she was 12 to comprehend the techniques involved with tonal realism. She learnt with various teachers on weeknights after school including Shirley Bourne, Maxwell Wilks and Margaret Cowling and continued tuition with them during her Bachelor of Fine Art at Victoria College, Prahran. A fascination began with the two ‘worlds’ of art societies and art colleges with their distinct ways of teaching which culminated in her final year work of interiors. These subjects of interiors and cityscapes recur presently in her work with a suggestion of what may happen or what has been and include images of Port Melbourne, various National Trust buildings and Tribeca (formally the old brewery in East Melbourne). The interior is often referred to as a reflection of self but Tegan also enjoys the challenge of portraiture, including self-portraits, always executed from life. She has a love for many diverse subjects like the delicacies of still life and exploring texture and colour, even using candlelight. Her fascination with light extends to paintings and watercolours of Port Melbourne by moonlight and landscapes of luminous and ethereal mist and cloud of atmosphere.
I place a strong emphasis on working from life. I paint the places I love to go, people I love to meet and still life motifs of personal significance or for their beauty alone. I enjoy versatility of subjects which I think is a typical Gemini trait I don’t stay with one subject for too long!
Tertiary Training
Victorian College of the Arts/Victoria College Prahran, Bach. Fine Art(Major: Painting. Minor: Drawing). High Dist. Art History.
Assoc.Dip. Trinity College London (Teacher, Speech & Drama) Licentiate Dip. Trinity College London (Teacher, Speech & Drama)Art Awards
1991 Highly Commended - Toorak College Exhib.
1991, 1995 Gold Medallion Winner (Best all round artist Art& Speech sections, Dandenong Festival of Art & Youth (Under 25 y.old)
1992-1993 1 st Prize Dandenong Festival of Art & Youth
1995-1996 1 st Prize Dandenong Festival of Art & Youth
1993 Highly Commended Mt Waverley Art Show
1994 2nd prize Dandenong Festival
1994-1997 Finalist AME Bale Scholarship
Winner Best Oil Wimmera Rotary Art Show
1st Prize 25 years & Under Wangaratta Art Show
1995 1st Prize 25 years & Under Rotary Club of Brighton
1996 Winner Inaugural Greg Dickson Scholarship Dandenong Festival
1997 2nd Prize Dandenong Festival
Group Art Exhibitions
Dandenong Festival of Art & Youth1988-1991 Victorian Artists Society Student Exhibition
1990 Prahran Painters – Linden Gallery St Kilda
1990-1992 Stare Gallery, Prahran
1991 Camberwell Rotary Art Show
1992 VCA at the Malthouse selected exhibition
1992-1993 Toorak College Art Show
1993-1995 Mt Waverley Art Show
1994 Bayswater Art Show
1994 Autumn & Spring Exhib- VAS Selected
1994-1996 Rotary Club of Victor Harbour, Sth Aust.
1995-1997 Rotary Club of Brighton
Other
1996 Artist In Residence Korowa Anglican Girls School, Glen Iris.
Admired Painters: Rick Amor, Phil Hunter, John Singer Sargent, Hugh Ramsay, Clarice Beckett, Brett Whiteley.
Represented: Australian and overseas private and corporate collections.
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