About Manuela Pilz
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Manuela Pilz was born in Berlin, Germany and then grew up in Sydney, Australia. Since then she has lived in the UK, Portugal and Spain. She completed her Fine Art Bachelor Degree at Sheffield Hallam University, where she studied painting and printmaking with Anne Grebby. She also completed her teacher training at Greenwich University and taught English to International students which has greatly influenced her teaching style. Since then she has taught art in the UK, Portugal, Spain and Australia at university, primary and secondary school level. In 2020 Manuela started her private art school The Drawing Room on the Gold Coast and online and conducts weekend workshops as well as 5 day retreats in Queensland and Northern NSW. Now residing in Tasmania, Manuela's newest endeavour is to create The Drawing Academy for Young Artists to give an opportunity to young serious aspiring artists to fully develop their drawing. Weekly classes for young drawers and beginner adults are conducted in a beautiful location in central Launceston.
Her passion has always been drawing and painting the figure from life and portraiture. Today Manuela spends most of her time in Tasmania where she continues to do her portraiture but is now working on her landscape painting. She is available for workshops and art retreat tuition throughout Australia. Her recent career highlights as an artist was winning the first prize for Portraiture at the Darcy Doyle Art Awards and receiving honourable mention for landscape; being a finalist for the Lethbridge 20,000 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. Much time was spent studying at the Salisbury Atelier in Brisbane and in 2019 she attended an intensive month studying painting at Julian Ashton School of Art in Sydney . 2023 was spent studying pastels under Leoni Duff at The Brisbane Street Art School. View some of Manuela's artwork. PRIZES
2021 First Prize for Portraiture Darcy Doyle Art Award, Mudgeeraba, QLD 2021 Highly Commended for Landscape Darcy Doyle Art Award, Mudgeeraba, QLD 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/ PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA June 2021 The Echo https://www.echo.net.au/2021/06/local-artist-wins-darcy-doyle-landscape-award-for-the-second-time/ *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 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 Madeleine Gordon Gallery Face to Face, Launceston Aug 2024 Launceston Art Society, Launceston , 2022 Darcy Doyle Art Award, Mudgeeraba QLD June 2021 Finalist Dean Cougal Portrait Prize, Dust Temple, Currumbin, Nov 2020 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 |