Monique Lovering
Visual Artist
Born - Torquay, South Devon, England
Formative years - New Zealand
Lived and worked in England and Italy, 1998 - 2009
2010 - present - Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
2020 - 2021 TURPS London Correspondence Course, UK
2015 - 2017 Advanced Diploma - Transpersonal Art Therapy, Sydney, Australia
2003 - 2005 Summer school at Chelsea School of Art & The Slade, London, Uk
1981 - 1983 B.A. Fine Arts - Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Home, Saint Cloche Gallery , Sydney, Australia
2014 Tenderness, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 No Name, My Micro Gallery, Milan, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Thoughts of Abstraction - Gallery 90, Sydney, Australia
2022 In the Flesh 02 - Artoure, Sydney, Australia
In the Flesh 01- Artoure, Sydney, Australia
2021 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Cohort Art, UK
2020 Here with me - Curatorial&Co, Redfern, Sydney, Australia
Modern Love - A.K.Bellinger Gallery, Inverell. Australia
2019 Summer Group Show, Galeria Alegria, Madrid, Spain
5 Painters, BSA Project Space, Mullumbimby, Australia.
2018 All we can't see, Yellow House Sydney, Australia
2017 Small Works, Graphis Gallery, Sydney, Australia
My brain has too many tabs open - ESD Gallery, Sydney, Australia
PRIZES
2018 - Acrylic painting award - Waverley Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
2017 - Finalist - Blacktown Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
RESIDENCIES
2023 - DESA, Bali, Indonesia
2022 - Portland Foundry Foundation Portland, NSW, Australia
2016 - Bondi Pavilion, Sydney, Australia - 3 months
Works appear internationally in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the USA
PUBLICATIONS
Belle Australia, 2016 / 'Sacred Space'
Real Living, Australia, 2015 / Matt Page
Elle Decoration, UK, 2012 / ‘Sicilian Style’
Elle, Italy, 2012 / ‘Il nuovo Sud’
Vogue Living, Australia, 2011 / ‘Wild life’
ONLINE
@moniqueloveringstudio
HISTORY
1985 - 2012 - Freelance Art Director - UK, Italy, and Australasia - Publishing and Advertising.
British Vogue - Vogue Australia - World of Interiors UK - Vanity Fair UK - Tatler UK- Elle Decor UK - Elle Decor Italia - Clinique - Asprey - Alfred Dunhill - Gucci