Rye VIC
Vicki Sullivan’s paintings draw from a deep appreciation of beauty. Sullivan Studied at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence Italy.
Sullivan is a contemporary classical realist combining the aesthetics of the old masters with a modern edge.
Finding her inspiration in people and nature Sullivan chooses oil paint as her medium, for love of rich and opulent colour, employing many layers of paint to make her colour lavish and glowing as if from the inside.
Artworks: 91
Vicki Sullivan has been recognized as an Art Renewal Centre Associate Living Master and her work has been exhibited in many exhibitions both in Australia and internationally.
Vicki was invited to exhibit her work in the “Artelibre 20×20” exhibition at the European Museum of Modern Art {MEAM} museum in Barcelona, Spain in 2019 and was Selected for the “Painting Now” Exhibition at the MEAM in March 2019.
Vicki’s work was recently selected for the Women painting Women, Men painting Men, Visions of Venus show at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton New York, the “I Observe” exhibition at Rehs Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY, The Kennedy Prize for Beauty, Adelaide South Australia and the 29th Miniature exhibition at Abend Gallery, in Denver, Colarado.
Her work recently won an Art Renewal Center Purchase Award and in 2018 an Art Renewal Center Publication Award for Collections Magazine, China , her paintings were featured in Poets Artists publications and online exclusives on Artsy and Artnet including the 100th Variety Issue Provocative Patterns, curated by Lorena Kloosterboer, The Art of the Nude, a 33 Contemporary Artsy exclusive, Painting the figure now ll, curated by Didi Menendez, The New Nude, Curated by Walt Morton, Anything but painting the figure, curated by Lorena Kloosterboer ‘Adorn Me’, curated by Carol Hodes and ‘Figurative Realism’ curated by Dirk Dzimirsky. Vicki’s Drawing has been selected for publication in Strokes of Genius Book 10, by Northlight books in the USA
Vicki was recently commissioned to paint the former Chancellor of Swinburne University, Hawthorne Victoria for the Swinburne University collection.
Vicki’s work has won awards in Australia, the USA, and the UK. And her work is held in many private collections worldwide. She was also a finalist in the 2020 Art Lovers Prize.
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