Natasha Bieniek
Born in Melbourne 1984, Natasha Bieniek has been painting for ten years. Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002 where she began to concentrate on figurative painting.
Bieniek received substantial recognition when her painting "When the music's over" (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d'Arte in Florence. At the Accademia d'Arte she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera, and studied under a well known contemporary Florentine painter Sonia de Franceschi, who exhibits regularly in Florence, Rome and Bologna.
Bieniek has received a number of Melbourne based commission work. In 2007 she completed a portrait of David Riley, retiring C.E.O of the William Angliss Institute of Tafe. That same year she painted A.F.L football umpire Hayden Kennedy as a testament to his four hundredth game. Prior to that Bieniek completed a portrait of Richard Jones, V.C.A lecturer, for private collection.
In 2008 and 2009 Bieniek was a finalist in the Metro Art Award ranking second place for the people's choice award in 2008 and third in 2009. This year Bieniek also was sort listed for the National Youth Self-Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery Canberra.
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Natasha Bieniek CV
| 1984 | Born - Melbourne |
STUDIES
| 2008 | Graduate Diploma- Arts Management, RMIT/td> |
| 2007 | Certificate, Ancient painting techniques, Accademia d'Arte, Florence |
| 2006 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) Victorian College of the Arts. |
| 2003 | Certificate, Brighton Bay, Art, design and photography program |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | James Farrell Self Portrait Award, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Vic
Figure 1, Pivotal Galleries, Richmond. Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Armadale, Vic. |
| 2008 | Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Armadale, Vic
Metro 5 Art Award, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Vic Seven, Pivotal Galleries, Richmond |
| 2007 | Wieder, Fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne |
| 2006 | V.C.A Graduate Exhibition, VCA, Southbank
Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, (winner) Italian Institute of Culture, South Yarra Wallara Travelling Scholarship, (short listed) VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank People and Places, Mad Gallery, Lancefield. Painting Department Show, VCA student Gallery, Southbank |
| 2005 | Making conditions of love, MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne
Proud, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank Slips of the mind, VCA Student Gallery, Southbank Painting department Show, VCA Student Galley, Southbank |
| 2004 | Proud, VCA Margeret Lawrence Gallery, South Bank
Painting Department Show, VCA Gallery, Southbank |
| 2003 | Brighton Bay Graduate Exhibition, Elwood Community Centre |
AWARDS
| 2009 | Metro Art Award- Finalist. National Youth Self Portrait Award- Final 30 |
| 2008 | Metro 5 $50 000 Art Award- Runners up in the people's choice. |
| 2006 | Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, Scholarship to study at the Accademia d'Arte, Florence Tolarno Hotel painting Award, VCA Graduate Exhibition |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2009 | Art Monthly Australia, #221, July Issue 2009, Art Notes, pg. 63 "Painter in the finals at last", Port Phillip Leader, June 2, Paul Riordan |
| 2008 | "Artist's visual gag", The Age, June 23, Annalise Walliker "Tribute to an art first", Port Phillip Leader, June 17, Aaron Langmaid |
COMMISSIONS
| 2007 | Portrait of David Riley, CEO William Angliss Institute of Tafe. Portrait of Hayden Kennedy, AFL Umpire |
| 2005 | Portrait of Richard Jones, Victorian College of the Arts Lecturer. |
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