Michael zavros exhibition
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Michael Zavros is a leading Australian painter based in Brisbane who works in a photorealistic style. A virtuoso of material illusionism, he creates seductive still life tableaux that comment on collecting, value systems and art history.
The Phoenix combines painted floral arrangements that the artist designs, photographs and paints with decorative and design objects to create zoomorphic creatures against stark white backdrops. The Phoenix is suggestive of the symbolic bird rising in flight, but in Zavros's painting, its fanned wings are formed of palm leaves; its neck and beak a silver sporting trophy cup; its skeleton a gilded dessert stand; and its ruffled feathers replaced with explosive plumes of colourful flowers. These objects shift symbolically and Zavros's phoenix seems more like a soaring tropical bird.
Zavros created this painting for the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object exhibition. He responded to the Australian and European Decorative Arts and Design collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia. The two objects depicted are
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Michael Zavros
Michael Zavros (b.1974) is a leading Australian artist. His work has been exhibited in major museums throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe.
Michael Zavros graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996.
In 2016 Zavros was awarded the Mosman Art Prize and in 2012 he won the inaugural Bulgari Art Award through the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2010 he was awarded the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, the world’s richest prize for portraiture. He has won three major Australian drawing prizes: the 2002 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, the 2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize and the 2007 Kedumba Drawing Award, and has been a multiple Archibald Prize finalist. He was the recipient of the 2004 MCA Primavera Collex Art Award.
In 2023 Queensland Art gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) staged a retrospective of Zavros’ work. Both Dunedin Public Art Gallery and City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand will stage solo exhibitions in 24/25. In 2019 Starkwhite presented a two person exhibition with Billy Apple and Zavros at Art Lo
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Michael Zavros
Australian artist
Michael Zavros is an Australian artist.
Early life and education
Zavros studied printmaking at Queensland College of Art in the 1990s.[citation needed]
Awards
Zavros has won three Australian drawing prizes: The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award in 2002, The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize in 2005 and the Kedumba Prize in 2007. In 2004, Zavros won the Primavera Collex award through the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.[citation needed]
In 2010 Zavros won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of his child Phoebe is dead/McQueen.[1] The previous year, Zavros was awarded runner up in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a self-portrait entitled V12 Narcissus. In 2012 he won the inaugural Bulgari Art Award, which included the acquisition of his work The new Round Room by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[2]
In 2016 Zavros was the recipient of the Mosman Art Prize for a portrait of his daughter entitled Flora.[3]
He was a finalist in the A
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