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1. 1. Australia Council for the Arts - Visual arts board members

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   Published on: 12/9/2007   Last Visited: 12/9/2007

   Brisbane visual artist Michael Zavros, graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996 where he has subsequently worked as a lecturer in painting and printmaking. Michael has taken part in numerous group exhibitions including Primavera 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Quiet Collision: Current Practice/Australian Style, Associazione ViaFarini, Milan, Italy, 2003; and New Nature at Govett Brewster Gallery, New Zealand in 2007. His solo exhibitions include This Charming Man, 24HR Art, Darwin in 2006; Everything I wanted at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2003/2004; and Egoiste at Wollongong City Art Gallery, 2007.
   
   Michael is the recipient of several awards and grants. In 2005 he won the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize through the Bendigo Art Gallery and in 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was a finalist in The Archibald Prize. In 2001 he was awarded the visual arts board Milan residency and in 2005, the visual arts board Barcelona residency. In 2003 he was awarded a Cité Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris through the Power Institute, University of Sydney.
   
   His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Artbank, Collex, ABN AMRO, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Art Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Gallery. In 2001 his work was included in Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, a Craftsman House publication featuring 50 Australian contemporary artists.

2. 2. AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: ARTS IN AUSTRALIA: MICHAEL ZAVROS

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   Published on: 2/10/2005   Last Visited: 2/10/2005

   Michael Zavros, artist AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: ARTS IN AUSTRALIA: MICHAEL ZAVROS
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   Profile: Michael Zavros
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   Michael Zavros, artist
   
   Michael Zavros' Reflection (green). Photo: Cinecolour
   
   An international residency had a profound effect on the work of painter Michael Zavros.
   
   With a grant from the Visual Arts/Craft Board (VACB) of the Australia Council, Michael Zavros undertook a three-month residency in the VACB,s Milan studio in 2001.
   
   ,The grant allowed me to realise a new body of work that extended my current practice, which engages with a dialogue about the relevance of contemporary painting,, says the Brisbane-based artist. Michael is a 28-year old photorealist painter. His recent work is inspired by images of male fashion drawn from popular culture, ,specifically Euro-centric images of the romanticised, dandified male figure,, which he sources from magazines and fashion catalogues. His oil-on-board paintings replicate such images and advertisements on a miniature scale, creating small vignettes of the fetishistic male body.
   
   ,I am interested in the artifice of fashion, its invitation to create a fantasy and its almost rococo nature,, says Michael. ,My paintings reflect an essentially European notion of the male figure and play on the idea that "clothes maketh the man". My work is about paying attention to details, both literally in terms of the clothing itself, as well as metaphorically.,As a significant international cultural centre, Milan had an obvious relevance to Michael,s work, and the VACB studio is close to many important galleries and fashion houses. Zavros visited Fondazione Prada and Fondazione Trussardi, two fashion houses that sponsor contemporary art galleries, and discussed his work with the curator for Fondazione Trussardi.
   
   The work Michael produced in Milan was exhibited at Sydney,s Mori Gallery on his return. At the end of 2003, he has solo exhibitions at the Mori Gallery and Brisbane,s Institute of Modern Art, as well as participating in a group show of six Australian artists at Viafarini, a gallery he made contact with in Milan.
   
   This was Michael,s first Australia Council grant.
   
   ,I found out about it by checking out the Australia Council Support for the arts handbook and talking to past residents of Ozco studios,, he says. Though he didn,t find the application hard to put together, it required extensive information.
   
   ,Writing the [grant, proposal made me further evaluate my practice and its relevance to the studio,, he says.,I found the VACB staff extremely helpful on several occasions in relation to my application and grant acquittal.,
   
   The residency was hugely beneficial, says Michael.

3. 3. www.michaelzavros.com

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   Published on: 4/30/2007   Last Visited: 4/30/2007

   Michael Zavros was born in 1974. He graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996 where he has subsequently worked as a sessional lecturer in painting and printmaking. Since graduating he has taken part in numerous group exhibitions including Primavera 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Sebastian: Contemporary Realist Painting, Quiet Collision: Current Practice/Australian Style, Associazione ViaFarini, Milan, Italy 2003 and Uncanny (the unnaturally strange) at Artspace Auckland, New Zealand in 2005. Solo exhibitions include Everything I wanted, for which he was awarded an Arts Queensland Development Grant, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in 2003/2004 and The Loved One, Mori Gallery, Sydney in 2003.
   
   Michael Zavros is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the 2002 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. In 2004 he was awarded the Primavera Collex Art Award through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and in 2005 he won the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize through Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was a finalist in The Archibald Prize.
   
   In 2001 Michael Zavros was awarded the Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Milan Residency and more recently, the VACF Barcelona Residency in 2005. In 2003 he was awarded a Cite International des Arts Residency in Paris through the Power Institute, University of Sydney. In 2004 he was the recipient of a residency at the Gunnery Studios, Sydney, from the NSW Ministry for the Arts.