About the Artist

Welcome to my store! My name is Clea Violet and I am a Sydney-based portrait artist.

I completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (National Art School, Sydney) in 2020 majoring in art history and painting. I completed a Master of Art Curating (University of Sydney) in 2023. I have been selling art since 2015. I also work as a studio artist at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, Sydney!

I am inspired by nineteenth-century art and photography, Norse Mythology, art history museums, history, dark art, silent film, ghost stories, Renaissance art, music, and romance novels. I have an interest in the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and her circle of friends, particularly the dramatist Sir Henry Taylor. I am a collector of rare books, letters, Victorian photography, and cassette tapes.

In my store you will find custom portraits in oil paint, ink, and watercolour. I also make ready-to-buy paintings in oil or acrylic. Archival art prints of my work will be available. I also sell Victorian photography, including cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards.

 

EXHIBITION HISTORY

2023      Sense and Sensibility: The Art of Perception. Camden Library, Camden.

2020      Bachelor of Fine Art Graduation Show. National Art School, Sydney.

              Drawing Week Online Exhibition. National Art School, Sydney.  

2019      Drawing Week. Stairwell gallery, National Art School, Sydney.

               Second Year Landscape Exhibition. National Art School, Sydney.

2017      HSC Art Show. Broughton Anglican College, Menangle.

2016      Spring Fair. Broughton Anglican College, Menangle.

               HSC Intensive Exhibition. National Art School, Sydney.

  Fisher's Ghost Art Award. Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown

 

 

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