Camilla Connolly

Camilla Connolly lives and works as an artist/painter in Murwillumbah, northern NSW. She is married with a four year old son. Her current work focuses on landscape, portraiture and contemporary painting practice. Selected as a finalist in the NSW Country Energy Landscape Prize, judged by Euan Macleod, Helen Eager and Tim Storrier. Her paintings have appeared at Art Melbourne and Art Sydney in 2005 and 2006, as well as Art Brisbane in 2005.

In 2005 and 2006, she was both exhibitor and guest panellist at the Forty Eight Hours of Visual Art (FEHVA) in Byron Bay. In 2005 she was awarded 2nd place in the FEHVA Peoples’Choice Award.

She plans to work on a landscape project that will relate to the landscape as the body and the relationship between human trauma/scarring and our capacity to care for the environment. Connolly currently tutors at the highly respected Byron Bay Art Workshops in Coorabell, Northern NSW. (Other tutors include Elisabeth Cummings, Emma Walker, James Guppy, Peter Griffen and Euan Macleod.)

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