LIZ ZANELLA

Bio

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Liz Zanella is a Melbourne based artist, raised in the rural South Gippsland town, Toora.  Liz graduated from Box Hill Institute in 1998 with a Diploma of Visual art, and has been a practising artist since.

She has had 7 solo exhibitions and regularly exhibits in groups shows.

Liz has painted live on stage for theatre productions (Melbourne Fringe Festival shows in 1999 and 2000), has made sets and props for a regional ballet company (annually from 2000-2003), and for stage shows by Sam Simmons and Christa Hughes, she has had paintings appear in backgrounds of several short films, and had illustrations commissioned for a documentary (SL/ASH 2008, Nick Spunde). Liz has taught Life Drawing at Jika Jika Community Centre (2007-2010), and Mask-making at Swinburne (2013). Liz has also worked in the community arts sector as a Gallery Co-ordinator (69 Smith Street Gallery 2012-2013). 

 

Liz generally works in oils, expressing her imagery in an overt colour pallette, influenced by an early love of comics. Two styles are prominent in her paintings, a illustrative figurative style and an abstract colourist style. Her drawings are mostly charcoal figurative works, and her miniatures are drawn in compresed charcoal, pencil and water-soluble graphite and water-soluble colour pencil.