We are excited to introduce to you a new artist, and teacher who is joining our group of master teachers here at MAC – Michelle Zuccolo!
Michelle will initially be teaching our new Introductory Watercolour Course and our Studio Art Course for Teenagers – two art classes which are in high demand.
Michelle Zuccolo (MA (Visual Arts), BA (Fine Art), DipEd, IB cert., not only brings her extensive training to MAC, she is also an extremely accomplished, practicing artist who has maintained an ongoing exploration into the human form and its depiction in art.
Her work is underpinned by an interest in the human psyche, expressed in related portraiture paintings, life drawing and sculpture. She has been a finalist in many awards, including:
- Portia Geach Memorial Award, E. H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney in 2011, 2013 and 2014, represented each time with a self-portrait.
- In 2015 and 2016 she was a semi-finalist in The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
- Five times in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
- Two times finalist in the Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
- Two times finalist in the ARC Yinnar Drawing prize.
- Finalist in the Castlemaine State Festival Dominique Segan Drawing Prize.
- She has also been represented in the Australian 7th Drawing Biennale held at Drill Hall.
Michelle was also a recipient of the ISS Italian Services Institute International Fellowship in 2013. There, she was fortunate enough to been able to conduct research in Italy and Austria, studying classical and medieval art forms. Inspired and enriched by this experience, her artwork continues to reference and celebrate the human form and architecture, with symbolic and religious undertones.
Michelle has taught Visual Art for over twenty-five years at various levels of education including Secondary and we are very fortunate to have her join us at MAC.
She will be taking our Introductory Watercolour Course beginning on July 21, and her Teens’ Studio Art Couse in August.
