Belle Australis (AAF SYD)

This artwork is avaliable for purchase exclusively at Affordable Art Fair Sydney 15-18 June
My work has been highly influenced by the world of commercial art and graphic design. This translates to my art in many ways. My still life paintings are careful composition full of allegories, which capture a moment in time where all represented items are meaningful beyond the composition.

'Belle Australis' is a still life that features pink-orange grevillias in and around a glass bottle. The glass bottle is the classic Coca-Cola shape, but the brand has changed to the words 'Belle Australis' meaning beautiful Australia.

I have painted a series of these 'reworked' coke bottle still life paintings.

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Born in Georgia USA in 1978, Melissa moved to Australian as a baby and grew up in Windang, on the South Coast NSW. Melissa established a career in advertising since 1999, and started portrait and still life painting in 2012. Melissa has been a finalist in many Australian Art Prizes including the Archibald Prize, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Kennedy Prize, Kilgour Prize, Pirtek Still Life Award, Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Black Swan Portraiture Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, John Copes Portrait Prize and the Percival Portrait Prize. Melissa won Wollongong Art Gallery’s ‘Postcodes from the Edge Art Prize’ in 2016.