Artist Statement and Biography

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"I draw and paint still lifes, portraits, figures and landscapes, taking inspiration and guidance from nature and the classical realist tradition. I aspire to complete my formal artistic training and build a studio facility where I can create, teach and exhibit; an inspiring and educational space where a community appreciation of beauty can be cultivated." - Troy Argyros

Troy Argyros holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts Education from Monash University, and is currently undertaking academic training at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.

Troy has exhibited his work in group shows throughout Australia, including the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award and the AME Bale Traveling Scholarship, has held five solo exhibitions in Melbourne, and is included in several private collections nationally. He is a tutor at Melbourne Studio of Art, where he teaches academic drawing and painting whenever he returns to Melbourne. In 2017, Troy was awarded 1st Prize in The Graeme Hildebrand Prize for Young and Emerging Artists in the oil painting category, for his still life painting "A Circle in a Spiral". Recently, Troy undertook an artist residency at Casa Lu in Mexico City, and has been announced as a finalist in The Kennedy Prize in South Australia.

Education

2019 Painting Program, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Second Year)

2013 Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts Education, Monash University, Melbourne

2012 Bachelor of Fine Art: Painting, Monash University, Melbourne

2009 Certificate IV in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, Holmesglen TAFE, Melbourne

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2016 Figure Drawing Workshop, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney

2015 Figure Painting Workshop, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney

2014 Figure Painting Workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence

Solo Exhibitions

2018 'Cosmos', Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria

2017 'Small Pictures', Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria

2015 'Fragments of Florence', Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne

2014 'Cultural Entomology', Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

2013 'You Have Been Loved', Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy North, Victoria

Group Exhibitions

2018 AME Bale Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria

2017 Manning Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, New South Wales

2016 Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria 

2015 Re/Collected, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria

40 x 40 Art Prize and Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

2014 AME Bale Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria 

Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour (2nd consecutive year)

Postcard Prize, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Victoria

Lethbridge 10,000, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland

2013 Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria (3rd consecutive year)

Awards

2017 1st Prize, Graeme Hildebrand Prize for Young and Emerging Artists (oil painting category)

2014 Summer Scholarship recipient; 4 week figure painting workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence

2013 2nd Prize, Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

1st Prize, Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria

2012 2nd Prize, Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria

2011 3rd Prize, Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria

2006 Deans Art Scholarship, Ashwood College, Ashwood, Victoria

Teaching 

2017 - present, Academic Drawing and Painting Tutor, Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria

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Artist Residency

2019 Casa Lu, Parque Hundido, Mexico City, Mexico

© 2019 Troy Argyros.