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Mel Brown is a visual artist and Arts Educator, practising on Kaurna Country (Tarndanya/Adelaide Plains). Since 2011 she has taught both Painting and Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art. She also has facilitated numerous, drawing and painting workshops in portraiture, and life drawing including the Art Gallery of South Australia, community and regional galleries.
Primarily a realist figurative painter she presents the viewer with alternative ways of experiencing the body, to speak of the seemingly familiar, yet unsteady states of being. “I like to play with visual codes in work that rides the boundaries of perception, identity, and gender, finding possibilities in uncertain spaces”.
Mel received her Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2008. She received several scholarships and was the recipient of the Alumni Award in recognition of her outstanding achievement in her studies. In 2010 also received the golden key for studies in Diploma of Education (Double Art). She has won several art prizes including, 2013 Kennedy People’s Choice Art Prize 2013, the Star Portrait Prize Loretto Spring Art Show 2013 and the Cliftons Art prize 2008. Mel works have been curated in group shows including Praxis Artspace, BMG Art Gallery, the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) festival and has received corporate and private commissions both nationally and internationally.
Mel Brown is a visual artist and Arts Educator, practising on Kaurna Country (Tarndanya/Adelaide Plains). Since 2011 she has taught both Painting and Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art. She also has facilitated numerous, drawing and painting workshops in portraiture, and life drawing including the Art Gallery of South Australia, community and regional galleries.
Primarily a realist figurative painter she presents the viewer with alternative ways of experiencing the body, to speak of the seemingly familiar, yet unsteady states of being. “I like to play with visual codes in work that rides the boundaries of perception, identity, and gender, finding possibilities in uncertain spaces”.
Mel received her Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2008. She received several scholarships and was the recipient of the Alumni Award in recognition of her outstanding achievement in her studies. In 2010 also received the golden key for studies in Diploma of Education (Double Art). She has won several art prizes including, 2013 Kennedy People’s Choice Art Prize 2013, the Star Portrait Prize Loretto Spring Art Show 2013 and the Cliftons Art prize 2008. Mel works have been curated in group shows including Praxis Artspace, BMG Art Gallery, the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) festival and has received corporate and private commissions both nationally and internationally.
Her full CV is here