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​About Manuela

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Manuela Pilz completed her Fine Art Bachelor Degree at Sheffield Hallam University, where she studied painting and printmaking with Anne Grebby.  Since then she has taught art in the UK, Portugal, Spain and Australia at university, primary and secondary school level, and also at independent art schools. Today Manuela teaches short intensive drawing workshops in Queensland, Australia. Her passion has always been drawing and painting the figure and recently has turned her hand to portraiture.

Her recent career highlights have been participating being a finalist for the Lethbridge 20000 in 2019, winning the Watts Atelier (click for link) Master Skill Building Challenge in 2016 judged by James Gurney and studying at the Florence Academy in Italy under Jura Bedic, 
Taylor Scarlet Powell and Tanvi Pathare in 2017. In 2019 she spent some time studying at Julian Ashton school of Art in Sydney where she continued to study oil painting and portraiture.
Workshops in Australia
Over the years Manuela has taught art at primary and secondary schools and at private art academies with adults and children. Presently she is doing regular workshops around Northern NSW and the Gold Coast, where she is living, at high schools and at local art schools.. For more information go to Weekend Workshops.




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PRIZES 
2020 Honorable Mention Stephen Bauman's Portrait Competition on Patreon.
2020 Highly Commended Entry Rotary Art Fair, Rotary Club, GC

2016 Winner of the Watts Atelier Annual Skill Building Challenge judged by James Gurney
February 2016 First place Watts Atelier Monthly Skill Building Challenge 
https://www.wattsatelier.com/product-category/online-courses/
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​PUBLICATIONS
*May 2019   
Australian Artist Magazine
 "MANUELA PILZ  How did you paint that?" p 31

*May 2019 
 
The Echo "The Garasu Art Gallery" p43

 https://issuu.com/echopublications/docs/byronecho3348/41?e=2296014/69662992

Nov 2018
Artable Blog "Chatting with Manuela Pilz" artable.com.au (click for link)

* March 2018 
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Watts Atelier Blog "Interview with first MSBC Manuela Pilz" wattsatelier.com (click for link)

*2012   
The Echo News

Artfelt refusals see the light  
https://www.echonews.com.au/news/artfelt-refusals-see-the-light-in-lismore/1541981/


EXHIBITIONS
Rotary Art Fair , Paradise Point, The Gold Coast, QLD March 2020
Atelier Art Classes Brisbane, The Bomb Factory, December 2019
Donate to Educate 8x8 Auction, Dust Temple, Currumbin, November 2019
The Naked Truth, Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane, October 2019
Finalist Dean Cougal Portrait Prize, Dust Temple, Currumbin, August 2019
Finalist Lethbridge 20000, Paddington, Brisbane, QLD, June- July 2019
​Garasu Art Gallery, The Mercato, Byron Bay, NSW April -June 2019
Finalist Neuman Portait Prize Dust Temple, Currumbin, QLD,  2018
The Bomb Factory, Annual Art Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD 2018
Artable Group Exhibition, Robina, QLD 2017
The Bomb Factory, Annual Art Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD 2017

Artfelt Art Prize Finalist, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, NSW 2012
Salon de Refuse, ArtfeltArt Prize, Serpentine Gallery, Lismore, NSW 2012
Exotic Erotic The Gold Coast Sculpture Society Nov 2011
RBS Morgans St Hilda’s Art Show The Gold Coast Oct 2011
Derek & Dywer Lawyers Summer Exhibition M & T Galleries, March – June 2009
ASLP Annual Art Exhibition Hotel Maipez , Canary Islands Spain June 2007

 ASLP Annual Art Exhibition Hotel Maipez , Canary Islands Spain June 2006
 Five Rivers Art Prize, Nerang, Gold Coast 1998
Summer Show Arteilimitada, ,Calcada de Estrela, Lisbon, Portugal 1996
Oxford Artweek Mural Project, Headington Park, June 1992
 Xerox Art Contact Gallery, Norwich, UK Oct- Nov 1991
 Education Project- The Print, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. UK Sep 1991
 The Face, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Dursley UK June-Aug 1991
 Eight Painters The Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, UK Dec 1990- Nov 1991

The Quiet Life Lancaster House, Oxford. UK 1991


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