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VR Morrison

MASTER ARTIST

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Michaela Hoppe

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MEDIUMS: Oil Paint | Digital
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technical, ✔ Business

VR Morrison is well known for her highly realistic and lavish artworks that use beauty as an artifice to explore dark and ominous morality tales. She is a widely acclaimed artist known for her highly realistic and lavish oil paintings that draw inspiration from classical painting traditions and allegorical subject matter which is mediated through her interest in popular culture, natural history and haute fashion. Her career began in Australia mid 2000’s where she self directed her study of oil painting in techniques of the Old Masters. She later moved to the South of France where she immersed herself in the rich European art history and culture. For over 20 years she has refined the techniques of master painters through her contemporary art practices and is a proven commercially successful artist.. Through this she has developed simple, logical and easily replicated methods that her enable her to teach others to fast track their skills in a range of painting techniques, from classical oil painting to various illustration styles. Her career path includes commercial illustration and tertiary lecturing fine art in prestigious art universities and colleges. She currently lives and works on the Gold Coast, Australia.
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe
Artwork by Michaela Hoppe

VR’S EXPERTISE

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Specialty: ✔ Technical, ✔ Business

Technical:

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Providing Art Critiques

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Technique Demos

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Supplies and Tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend

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Providing Art Critiques

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Teaching How to Self Critique

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Creating A Cohesive Range of Work

Marketing:

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Shows & Exhibits

Business:

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Pricing Artwork

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Studio Time Management

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Running Your Art Business the Day to Day

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Studio Time Management

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Products, prints, & reproductions

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Licensing

“Mastrius has done wonders for my confidence. I have managed to step way outside of my comfort zone which has in turn given rise to so many more opportunities to further my art career.”
~ Deb, Emerging Artist

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artwork by Michaela Hoppe

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • 2013 – Current: Lecturer Short Courses, Oil Painting, Illustration and Digital Art Making, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2018 – 2021: Illustration Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney, NSW

ARTISTIC AWARDS & PRIZES

  • 2022 Portia Geach Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, finalist
  • 2022 42nd Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs, Finalist
  • 2012 Portia Geach Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, finalist
  • 2011 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney, finalist
  • 2010 Redlands Art Award, Redland Art Gallery, Brisbane, finalist
  • 2010 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney, finalist
  • 2007 Fisher’s Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, finalist
  • 2007 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney, highly commended
  • 2006 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, finalist
  • 2006 Redlands Art Award, Redlands Gallery, Brisbane, finalist
  • 2005 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
  • 2005 Metro Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, People’s Choice Award, winner
  • 2003 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, finalist
  • 2003 Nudgee Art Prize, Nudgee Arts Festival, Brisbane, second prize winner
  • 2003 NEIS Grant Recipient, State Government of Queensland
  • 2002 Nudgee Art Prize, Nudgee Arts Festival, Brisbane, winner
  • 2001 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, finalist
  • 2000 Rapid Graphics/Brisbane Institute of TAFE, Brisbane, Award for Achievement in Art

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