About our tutors
Sophie Hann
Sophie trained at the New York Studio School and also with Robert Hannaford. She has won a number of prizes, including the Ruth Tuck Travelling Scholarship and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Dyason Bequest.
Her work has been selected for numerous awards throughout Australia, including the Alice Bale Award, Brett Whitely Scholarship, Hans Heysen Landscape Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
As a portrait artist, she has painted political cartoonist and TV presenter Bill Leak and politician Jane Lomax Smith. After four years managing a prominent commercial gallery in Sydney and has recently returned to Adelaide to paint full time.
Therese Williams
Therese Williams studied drawing, painting and sculpture at Alexander Mackie (CAE Sydney); set design at AFTS (Sydney) and Fine Art and Film Studies at Sydney University. She has experience as a scenic artist, working for the ABC TV (Sydney), the Australian Opera and the Sydney Theatre Company; as well as designing sets and costumes for theatre.
Therese has shown drawings and paintings in group shows in Sydney and Adelaide; was a Waterhouse Finalist in 2007; and held a solo exhibition in SOMA Galleries in 2006.
In 2009 she was a popular tutor for the Burnside Painting Group, teaching us among many things, tonal under-painting. She is currently completing studies at the Adelaide Central School of Art.
Greg O'Leary
Greg has drawn and painted for almost as long as he can remember and always enjoyed it. For him, it is a lifelong passion. He works within the classical tradition, attempting to grasp the magic that light plays out as it affects different forms and surfaces and to represent our surroundings in a way that makes us appreciate them differently - particularly in relation to their colour, form and vitality.
Greg works mostly in oils but also in charcoal and pencil with his main areas of interest being still life, portraiture, landscape and life drawing.
Recent solo exhibitions have been at Kensington Gallery, Thousand Words Gallery, Prospect Gallery, Xanadu Gallery in Margaret River, WA and The Salamanca Collection Hobart, with individual works in numerous RSASA and other exhibitions including recent Waterhouse Exhibitions at the SA Museum.
Margaret Tuckey
Margaret is a member of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts and teaches Art at TAFE's Tea Tree Gully campus.
She graduated with an Associate Diploma of Fine Art from the South Australian School of Arts in 1988. She has also completed an Advanced Drawing course at the Adelaide Central School of Art.Margaret has previously conducted workshops for the Adelaide Art Society, Burnside Painting Group, and Tea Tree Gully Art Group. She has participated in Art prize exhibitions at Tea Tree Gully, Jamestown, Golden Grove and Port Adelaide.
Her special interest is using the bright complementary colours of the natural world in a contemporary way to investigate her view of life in energetic abstracts, landscapes, seascapes and still-life. Her work is experimental, mainly in watercolour, oil, acrylic or pastel and mixed media. Margaret also has a keen interest in sculpting clay busts.
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Margaret Tuckey: North Flinders Ranges | Margaret Tuckey: Blue Journey |
Tutor: Julia Wakefield
Julia Wakefield is an illustrator, portrait artist and a printmaker who has worked extensively with etching, solar plate, monotypes and wood engraving. She specialises in teaching printing methods using inexpensive, non-toxic materials. She teaches art at the Hahndorf Academy in the Adelaide Hills.
Her classes at the Burnside Painting Group in 2010 will concentrate on portraiture (drawing) and watercolour landscapes in the style of Hans Heysen. www.juliawakefield.com.au Ross Morgan
ROSS is a young artist originally from Yongala in the mid north of South Australia. When he isn't working part time, Ross paints and draws at his home-studio in Adelaide. He also tutors small art classes for a gallery/studio in North Adelaide. He works mainly in oil or acrylic on canvas.
Ross graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia. His work is a reflection upon his love of human character and spirit, and the environment. He likes to take elements out of their normal context and create something new that asks the question, why?
"At the end of the day I love the fact that art is a unique form of personal expression; How we communicate or whether we want to share this with the rest of the world depends upon each individual artist. My personal belief is that art ultimately is a form of honesty; it should never be judged, but always appreciated."
