Fiona Bilbrough
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Fiona received the Gordon Moffat Award in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Fiona has work in private collections in France, Italy, Spain, England, Scotland and throughout Australia. STUDIES 1990 Bachelor of Education, fine arts, Melbourne University. 1989-1990 Private tuition with John Balmain 1996-1997 Extensive art study tour in Europe EXHIBITIONS 1993 Quaison’s Mornington 1994 Nickelby’s Carlton 1998 Delshan Armadale 2001 Victorian Artists Society Galleries Melbourne Jenny Pihan Fine Art Hampton White Hill Gallery Dromana 2016 Woman painting Woman Barinja Art Gallery Upwey Salon Des Refuses Mornington Regional Gallery 2016 Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Glen Eira ACTIVITIES My teaching and painting careers have merged since graduation from university in 1990 I was awarded the Alice Bale scholarship valued at $30,000 in 1995 followed by 18 months in Europe studying classical portraiture and still life, being greatly influenced by master painters of Britain and Spain. I love teaching to students, beginners and advanced any medium but the rules of casual observation and order of visual importance dominate my teaching methods. I encourage my students to work from life, exhibit, study the Master Painters and take themselves seriously. BIBLIOGRAPHY Australian Artist Magazine 1996 June Pastels 1999 June Pastels 1997 January “travels with my aunt” 2001 January Still Life 2010 April Making Every Brush Stroke Count 2017 July Masters of Melbourne Pt 1 AWARDS 1995 Alice Bale traveling Scholarship ($30,000) 2011 “A Tribute to Buvelot” Dromana ($10,000) 2016 Membership to the 20 Melbourne Painters Society.
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