Invited artist by the internal committee of the international Florence Biennale to exhibit her works
at the 8th Edition  2011 International Florence Biennale, Italy.  BIENNALE  INTERNAZIONALE DELL’ ARTE  CONTEMPORANEA Firenze, at the historical Fortezza da Basso  3 – 11 December  2011.

Awarded artist Milanda de Mont (Gregorian) lives and works in Sydney, Australia and Mainz, Germany. With influence that run deep she is of Armenian heritage and has a lifelong artistic career.   She has been represented by a number of Galleries Australia wide and has held extensive solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally working with Galleries in New York, Germany, Italy, France, and Republic of Armenia.  She has collaborated with professional artists, dancers and musicians from around the world. Her paintings have been highly regarded and admired by many art lovers and are in numerous collections in major cities of Australia,  England, USA, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Barbados, Hong Kong, Japan, and Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.  As well, she has worked as Illustrator and graphic designer for major advertising agencies and has taught for many years at the Arts & Media Faculty of TAFE NSW (Technical & Further Education),   in Sydney, Australia while maintaining her fine arts practice.

Artistic Highlights:
Twice Winner of the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Scholarship Awards from Munich in 1996 and 2001, she has associated with well known German artists and the famed “Kunstakademie Dusseldorf”. 2001 invited artist by the Director of Culture in Japan, presented artist at the Official Mayoral Civic Reception Ceremony, has staged painting performances in Tokyo, has received a glowing review in the “Yomiuri Shimbun” Japan’s highest circulation newspaper. 2001 one of only 15 artists selected worldwide by the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes in Munich to present her works at the International Symposium in Berlin and Weimar. 2001 Winner of The Elcom Open Award & First Prize, Central Coast Arts Festival NSW, Australia. 2002 and 2003 invited guest artist by the Australian Ballet Patrons Programme.   2000 and 2004 invited to present major solo exhibitions at the Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia. 2005 collaborative exhibition with German artists at Burgerhaus am Hammer, official opening by the Mayor of Leichlingen, Germany. 2006 invited by The National Gallery of Armenia, major solo exhibition and  live performance painting in collaborations with Armenia’s well know Ashoogh Jivan musical Ensemble, and with dancer of Sophie Devoyan Dance Company, Republic of Armenia. 2007 selected Finalist Audi Art Prize, in the top 6 national multidisciplinary, at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney, Australia. 2008 one of 32 invited artists, participate in local Government project entitled ‘Sense of Place”, Gosford Regional Art Gallery. 2009 Finalist in Gosford City Art Prize (547 entry across NSW only 145 selected artists), Gosford Regional Gallery.  2009 invited artist by the Director of Hilton Hotel Mainz City, exhibition, Germany. 2009 Collective Exhibition Armenian Abstract Artists, “Art Gallery Arakyan”, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. 2010 Collective Exhibition Armenian Abstract Artists, Modern Art Museum of Armenia, Yerevan. 2010 Gosford Art Prize, Winner overall First Prize $10,000 & Award, juried by the Senior Curator of the Macquarie University Art Gallery in Sydney. 2011  Selected and invited by the Internal Committee Florence Biennale to participate at the Florence BIENNALE  INTERNAZIONALE  DELL’ ARTE  CONTEMPORANEA, Italy.

Her works have been selected by the international Curators and Juried Art Publications and published :  International Contemporary Artists Art Book, Vol. 1,  International Contemporary Masters Art Book Volume 5,    Artist’s ID Handbook - Modern Art Community,  
ARTisSpectrum Vol.23 & 24,  Chelsea New York, USA.   

Chelsea New York,  USA
2010 ArtisSpectrum, Volume 23 and 24, Review Publication, NY.
http://www.artisspectrum.com/ 
www.artisspectrum.com/Artist-Profiles/Volume-23/milanda-de-mont.html

Milanda De Mont’s enamel paintings exemplify her ideas of artistic expression as a means of liberation.  De Mont’s fluid brushstrokes exhibit a vibrancy and life of their own.  Inspired by the energies and movement of nature, De Mont is able to personify these energies through colors, lines, and forms that transform the canvas into a unified living image.  De Mont describes her process as energetic and spontaneous. “I let myself be carried away without resistance while my entire being is dedicated to the free-flowing expression of line, color and form as it coalesces into living imagery.”  Influenced by the physical urges of Abstract Expressionism, her paintings unleash the fury of Franz Kline with the colorful lyricism of Helen Frankenthaler. Each painting sustains its own unity while at the same time encompassing a vivid, distinct, abstract expression that is universally appealing.  De Mont’s appeal lies in her ability to express relationships that exist between nature and mankind. The abstract forms De Mont creates express a unification of these natural and humanistic elements.  Her artwork creates a visual dialogue and artistry, synthesizing her observations in her lifelong artistic career as painter and world traveler, truly embracing a global consciousness. Milanda de Mont is also working in performance art and she lives in Sydney and Mainz, Germany. 

2010 International Contemporary Artists Volume 1 Art Book. ICA Publishing US: New York City & Europe: Athens.  http://www.incoartists.com/Book/page36-37.html

Milanda de Mont (Gregorian), Australian artist (Armenian origin), currently lives and works in Sydney and Mainz, Germany.  Her striking abstractions emerge and exhibit purity of her artistic expression as a means of liberation and above all creative energy of life. Fluid brushstrokes, display a vibrancy of their own. Her paintings reveal and reflect love and joy of colour, flowing in rippling paths. The interaction of interrelated forms, movement, energy, space, lines, emotion, create interplay, stretching the form in harmonious compositions beyond the physical limits of the canvas. She states:  “I am in a constant visual dialogue with my art; I cross through the unknown territories to find a voice celebrating and marking its individual quality. My inspirations of nature, aesthetics, experiences, mediums used, lead my painting process, transforming the surface into a dimension of unified pictorial imagery”.

 
Current and Previous Galleries & Art Consultants
 
Galerie Bredeney, Essen, Germany. www.siemandel-feldmann.de
Galleria Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy & Nice, France.
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
Arakyan “Art Gallery”, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington Sydney, Australia.
Gosford Regional Art Gallery, The Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Agora Gallery Chelsea New York
Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney, Melbourne, Australia.
Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
Wentworth Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions
   
2011 5 Personale,  Galleria Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy.
2011 “Art Gallery “, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
2010 "3 solos" with Athena Xenakis, Lisa Madigan, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2009 Hilton Hotel Mainz City, Mainz, Germany.
2009 Arakyan "Art Gallery", Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
2007 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2007 Horus & Deloris Gallery, Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia
2006 Major Solo, invited artist by National Gallery Of Armenia, Yerevan,
Republic of Armenia.
2006 Galerie Bredeney, with Michael Siewert, & Georg Weber, Essen, Germany.
2005 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2004 Major solo "Circling a Trail, a Cultural Journey" Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2004 "Von Natur Aus" 3 solos, with Herbert Siemandel-Feldmann and Georg Weber, Buergerhaus am Hammer; Leichlingen, Germany.
2004 "Von Natur Aus" with Herbert Siemandel-Feldmann and Georg Weber, Galerie Bredeney, Essen Germany.
2004 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2003 "From Body To Energy", Australian Ballet Patrons Program,
in association with the Hong Merchant of Australia Gallery Sydney, Australia.
2002 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2002 Invited guest artist, Australian Ballet Patrons Programme, Sydney, Australia.
2001 The Cancer Care Centre, Nepean Hospital Arts for Health Program,
Sydney, Australia.
2001 "Rising of the Sun" Edogawa Sogo Bunka Centre, Tokyo, Japan.
2000 "Figure Dynamics" Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
2000 Major Solo "Fantasia & Dynamism" Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
1998 "Australian Landscape" 2 solos, with Herbert Siemandel-Feldmann, Galerie Bredeney, Essen, Germany.
1997 "Feature Artist" Gosford City Art Centre, East Gosford, Australia.
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
   
2011 Florence Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.
2011 30 x 30 = 90 numeri, project, February 24, MuseAAV, Nice, France.
2010 Upcoming, 30 x 30 = 90 numeri, project, February 24, MuseAAV, Nice, France.
2010 30 x 30 = 90 numeri, project, Galleria Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy.
2010 Collective Exhibition Armenian Abstract Artists, Modern Art Museum of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
2010 Winner First Prize, Gosford Art Prize Exhibition, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2010 "Frank mania", international artists, "Art Gallery" Arakyan, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. "Farewell Sale 1999-2010", Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia. 2010 Stock Show, Seek Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2010 Harris Courtin Gallery 1 & 2, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2009 Finalist, Gosford City Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Australia.
2009 Arakyan Art Gallery, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
2009 Harris Courtin Gallery, Gallery 2, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2008 Invited well known artists, Government project "Sense of Place",
Gosford Regional Gallery, Australia.
2008  Harris Courtin Gallery, Gallery 2, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2007  Finalist, Finalist Award Audi Art Prize, in top 6, National Multidisciplinary Arts, Museum of Contemporary Arts, (MCA), Sydney, Australia.
2007 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2007 Selected artist, International Women's Day, Multi Arts Confederation Central Coast
2006  Tatevos Arakyan Gallery: Collaboration with Armenian, French, Italian and Japanese artists, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
2006  Harris Courtin Gallery, Gallery 2, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2006 Finalist, Gosford City Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2006 Invited artist, 31st Central Coast Festival of Arts, Australia.
2006 Finalist, Gosford City Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2005 Finalist, Gosford City Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2005 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2004 Invited Australian artist, 29th Central Coast Festival of Arts, Australia.
2004 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2003 Invited artists “a look at laughter”, Greg James Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia.
2003 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2003 Invited Australian artists, the 28th Central Coast Festival of Arts, Australia.
2003 Finalist, Gosford City Art Prize, selected finalists group, Gosford Regional Art Gallery.
2002 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2002 6 European artists, Galerie Bredeney, Essen, Germany.
2002 Invited Australian artists, the 27th Central Coast Festival of Arts, Australia.
2001 International Artists Symposium, Weimar and Berlin. One of only 15 artists selected from around the world by the “Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes” in Munich, Germany.
2001 Harris Courting Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.
2001 Winner - 2001 Elcom Open Award and First Prize, the 26th Central Coast Festival of Arts.
2000 The Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne, Australia.
2000 The Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
2000 TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2000 Invited Australian artists, the 25th Central Coast Festival of Arts, Australia.
1999 Horizon Committee Auction, work presented with Brett Whitely and Elizabeth Durak,
Gallery Link International, (now Gallery at the Wentworth) Sydney, Australia.
1999 Invited Australian artists, the 24th Central Coast Festival of Arts, Australia.
1999 Gosford City Art Exhibition, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
1998 Gallery Link international Sydney (now Gallery at the Wentworth), Sydney, Australia.
1997 Gallery Link International, Sydney, Australia.
 
Selected Performance Exhibitions
   
2007 “Flow” painting Performance No. 12
Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia. Painting Performance and Live Installations. Collaborations with Australian Asian Dancer Vanessa Sew Hoy and Violinist Queyen Le.
2006 “Allegory” Painting Performance No. 11. A Project for the TT Audi Art Prize.
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney. Selected Finalist, national multidisciplinary Audi Art Prize. Collaborations with Australian Asian Dancer Vanessa Sew Hoy and Violinist Queyen Le. 3 part performances forming into a live installation. Painting: 180 cm x 110 cm acrylic on canvas
2006 Painting Performance No. 10.
National Gallery Of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. Collaborations with well known Sayat Nova Ensemble in Armenia, performance to ancient Armenian melodies. Choreography de Mont, Dancer Guyane Agbaryan. Painting: Triptych, each panel: 120 cm x 110 cm, acrylic on canvas .
2003 “From Body to Energy” Painting Performance No. 9.
Hong Merchant of Australia Gallery, Sydney. Presented by the Australian Ballet Patrons Programme in association with the Hong Merchant of Australia . Part 1. Oil sticks on stretched canvas size: 260cm x 160 cm. Music by Arvo Part, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten. Part 2. Acrylic, triptych each panel: 110cm x 84cm. Music: The Tao of Cello, improvisations by David Darling, a. Yield and overcome, b. What is firmly grasped cannot slip away. Part. 3. Completion of the dialogue. Cellist Imogene Granwal. Dancer Rochelle Donnelly.
2002 “Artist dream” Painting Performance No. 8
Invited guest artist by the Australian Ballet Patrons Programmed, Sydney, Australia. Dancer Susan Baling. Music by Chopin, Nocturnes Nos. 20 and 21.
2001 “Improvisations” Painting Performance No. 7
International Art Symposium, Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes, Weimar and Berlin. Movements by 13 international artists. music by Robert Lloyd, Australian composer.
2001 “Rising of the sun”, Painting Performance No. 6.
Staged at the Concert Hall, Edogawa Sogo Bunka Centre, Tokyo, Japan. Collaborations with dancers Rochelle Donnelly and Lisa Wildman of the Central Dance Company. Music by Haiku, Japanese composer.
2001 “Improvisations”, Painting Performance No. 5.
Edogawa Sogo Bunka Centre, Tokyo, Japan. Dancer Rochelle Donnelly of The Central Dance Company, Music by Shostakovich.
2000 “ Fantasia & Dynamism”, Painting Performance No. 4.
Gifford Regional Art Gallery, Central Coast NSW, Australia. Collaborations with: Susan Baling former principal dancer, The Sydney Dance Company. Music composed by Candy Lawrence; “Nocturne and Rhapsody” & “ Burlesque’. Performed by: The Central Coast String Quartet.
Painting on 2 canvases, each panel: 45 cm x 200 cm.
2000 “Figure Dynamics”, Painting Performance No. 3
The Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney, Australia. Collaborations with Dancer Cathie Goss of the Sydney Dance Company. Music by Shostakovich. Painting performance: acrylic on 10 pieces of canvas each: 35 x 45 cm.
1999 “From a Visual dialogue”, Painting Performance No. 2
The TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Collaborations with Dancer Cathie Goss, Sydney Dance Company. Music by Shostakovich. Medium: acrylic on canvas size: 200cm x 200 cm
1996 “Out of Canvas”, Painting Performance No. 1
Johannes Kirsche, Düsseldorf, Germany. Performed with the “Düsseldorf Female Artists”, Action painting, medium: pigment on a stretched canvas size: 200 cm 150 cm.
 
Public & Corporate Collections:
   
The National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
The New South Wales University, Mathematics Department, Sydney, Australia.
The QBE Insurance Sydney, Australia.
The Elcom Corporate, Central Coast NSW, Australia.
Edogawa Sogo Bunka Centre, Tokyo, Japan.
The Engelthal Monastery, Budingen, Germany.
Private collections:
Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Belgium, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, Essen, Altenstadt, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Barbados.
 
Education
   
1991 Dip Ed. Post Graduate Degree, University of Technology UTS Sydney, Australia.
1974 - 1975 Art Diploma National Art School Sydney, Australia.
1975 - 1977 Diploma of Graphic Design Randwick College and Sydney College of the Arts Sydney, Australia.
1978 Diploma of Commercial Art Sevier Valley College, Utah, USA.
 
Foreign Languages: English, German, Armenian, Farsi (Persian).
 
1993 - 1996 German Language studies, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Sydney, Australia and Düsseldorf, Germany.
 
Prizes, Awards, Scholarships,
   
2010 Winner overall, First Prize $ 10,000 & Award Gosford Art Prize, NSW, Australia.
2003 - 2009 Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2007 Finalist Award Audi Art Prize, selected in top 6, National Multidisciplinary Arts, Museum of Contemporary Arts, (MCA), Sydney Australia.
Adjudicators: Collette Dinigen, Jasper Knight, Robin Nevin, Ignatius Jones, Jan Mackey.
2001 Winner First Prize & Elcom Open Award, the 26th Central Coast Festival of Arts.
Adjudicator: James Deas, advisor to the William Bowmore Collection and assistant Curator to Sir William Dobell's last exhibition in New South Wales.
Adjudicator's Statement:
"Outstanding handling of paint producing an evocative atmospheric work".
2001 Scholarship Award Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Munich, Germany.
1996 Scholarship Award Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Munich, Germany.
1973 Winner First Prize, Mural Design Competition, for the Mimosa Public School, Warringah Shire Council, Sydney, Australia.
1969 Winner Gold medal, First Prize, & Award, National Iranian Painting Competition, Tehran, Iran
1968 Winner Gold medal, First Prize, & Award, National Iranian Painting Competition, Tehran, Iran
1967 Winner First Prize, & Award, National Iranian Painting Competition, Tehran, Iran.
 
Bibliography: publications, media interviews and broadcasts.
   
2010 Artist Profile, International Contemporary Artists Art Book Vol. 1, Europe & USA.
2010 Express Advocate
2010 Oct. 7, SBS Radio Interview Broadcast-Armenian Program, Sydney, Australia.
2010 Selected Artist Profile in Artist's ID, Modern Art Community Publication, Athens & USA.
2010 Review: ArtisSpectrum Magazine, Volume 23, Agora Gallery Chelsea New York.
2009 A (2) two part Interview series, "From Classics to Contemporaries", AR TV, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
Media Interview, Armenia Diaspora TV, Yerevan, Armenia.
Media Interviews on Hanrayin Radio, (H 1), and Liberty Radio, Yerevan, Armenia.
Art Review, State Liberary Publication, Yerevan, Armenia.
2007 November – February Issue 2008, Australian Art Review, Sydney, Australia.
2007 October 2007, Issue #54, Art, by Annemarie Lopez, The Sydney Magazine.
2007 Oct. 13 -14, 07, Open Gallery, by Kerry Coleman, Arts, & Entertainment,
Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia.
2007 September 6, 2007, Live art in fantasy land, by Karina Dungar, MX, Sydney, Australia.
2006 Community Channel, painting performance broadcast, Sydney, Australia.
2006 Media interview and broadcast: HI - Radio and Television, Yerevan, Armenia.
2006 7 June, Art Review, AZG, Yerevan, Armenia.
2006 Interview and Review, 168 Newspaper, Yerevan, Armenia.
2006 2 June, Neue Ruhe Zeitubg, & Westdeutsche Algemeine Zeitung, Essen, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Germany.
2005 Issue 34 October - December, The Australian Art Collector, international circulation.
2005 October Issue, Art Almanac, nationwide circulation.
2005 Jan. 20, The Central Coast ABC Radio, live Interview broadcast, Central Coast, NSW.
2000 August “Opening with fanfare” Central Coast Express, Australia
2004 Express Advocate, Central Coast, NSW.
2004 Dec. 22-30 Metropolitan, "This Week's Best" , Sydney Morning Herald.
2004 Armenian Art - Hay Arvest Magazine, Yerevan, Armenia and international circulation.
2004 Wed. 28 April, "Stars mit Gefuehl" , by Tankred Stachelhaus, Pressekritiken" Neue Ruhe Zeitung, NES06, Essen, Germany.
2004 Dec.8, SBS Radio interviews in 2 parts, Sydney and Melbourne broadcast, Australia.
2004 Feb. 8, Tim Benzie Review "In the Frame" The Sun Herald, Sydney, Australia.
2004 Feb. 3, "Winning Touch" The Wentworth Courier, Sydney, Australia.
2004 Feb.3, "Andrew Taylor Spotlight review" Metropolitan, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.
2004 Feb. Issue, 5th page, Art Almanac Australia, nationwide circulation.
2003 SBS Radio interviews, Sydney and Melbourne broadcast.
2002 Issue 21, July – Sept., Australian Art Collector Journal – international circulation
2003 SBS Radio interview
2003 Dec.3 “Art of the party” by Robin Amadio, The Wentworth Courier, Sydney
2003 Vol 41, No2, 2003, Art & Australia, international circulation
2003 Nov. 29, “From Body to Energy” article in Leading Sydney Homes
2003 June Issue 7th page, Art Almanac, nationwide circulation
2002 Issue 21, July - Sept., Australian Art Collector Journal - international circulation.
2002 Sept. 11, "Stepping a head" in Going Places 40 by Robin Amadio, the Wentworth Courier, Sydney, Australia.
2002 July 3 "Peter Munro Spotlight review, Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald.
2002 July Issue, 3rd page, Art Almanac Australia, nationwide circulation.
2001 June 12, review, The Youmiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, over 10 million in circulation, Japan.
2001 April 11, "Festival winner" Central Coast Express Wyong, Australia
2001 March15, front page in colour "Milanda on world stage" Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate, Sydney Australia
2001 "Visual dialogue artist heads for Japan" Central Coast Express.
2001 Special commemorative Issue 200, in colour, Portfolio section, The Australian Artist Magazine, nationwide circulation.
2000 August "Opening with fanfare" Central Coast Express, Australia.
2000 June, The Wentworth Courier, Sydney, Australia.
2000 June, Financial Review - The Age, Sydney, Australia.
1999 Nine to Five Magazine, Sydney, Australia.
1998 Dec.3, "Vivid landscapes and sunsets" Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate, Sydney, Australia.
1998 11 Dec. "Art to mediate with" Central Coast Express Advocate, Gosford, Australia. Sept. 12, Review, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Düsseldorf, Cologne Germany.
1998 Sept. 12, Review, Neue Ruhe Zeitung, Essen, Germany.
1996 Illustrators of Sydney, Australia.
1995 "The Professional Advantage" TAFE Images, Sydney, Australia.
1983 & 1984 Creative handbook of Australia
Travel & Work
   
2009 Lived 6 months in Europe based and worked in Mainz, travelled to Amsterdam and Berlin, held exhibition at the Hilton Hotel Mainz City. Also, collaborated with Mainz Artists. Travelled to Yerevan, and was Artist in Residence, from May - mid June, painted and held exhibition at the Arakyan Art Gallery, in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
2008 Resided and worked in Mainz, Germany, returned  to Sydney, Australia.
2007 Based in Mainz, Germany. Travelled to Paris, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Maria Alm in the Alps, and Salzburg.
2006 Travelled to Germany and Armenia. Conducted exhibitions at the Galerie Bredeney in Essen. Collaborated with Georg Weber and Michael Siewert. Held major Solo exhibition of Abstracts and Painting Performance in June. at the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, in collaboration with dancer from Sofie Devoyan Dance Company and Armenia’s renowned Ashoogh Jivan Sayat Nova Ensemble.
2005 Purchased a property with husband(Peter) and established bases in Mainz, Germany, as a second Studio in Europe.
2004 Travelld to Germany, Austria and Armenia. Held exhibition in April at the Bredeney Gallery with 2 German artists. Including an exhibition at the Leichlingen Buerger Haus in September in Leichlingen. Travelled to Armenia for the preparation of an international project granted by the Gosford Regional Art Gallery in NSW. Worked as Artist in Residence and at the studio granted by the Director of the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan.
2001 Travelld to Germany. Attended seminars at the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Head Quarter, the historical Marlene Dietrich's House in Weimar and further in Berlin. Visited the historical "Hamburger Bahnhof Museum" in Berlin and met its Head Curator. visited the historical Monuments, contemporary Galleries, Museums and the renowned "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" in Berlin. Visited historical residences of Paul Klee and Kandinsky, designed by Walter Gropius in Dessau. Visited the Bauhaus School in Berlin, Weimar and Dessau. Collaborated with international artists from Russia, Serbia, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Turkey, India, Thailand, Lithuania, Brazil, and Portugal.
2001 Travelled to Japan on an official invitation by the Cultural Director in Japan to stage painting performance and exhibition at the Edogawa Sogo Bunka Centre, the Concert Hall, Tokyo. Presented artist by the Japanese dignitaries at the Official Mayoral Civic Reception Ceremony, representing Australia in a Cultural Exchange in Tokyo. Visited cultural sites and Galleries in Tokyo.
1998 Travelled with husband in Australia and visited historic sites.
1998 Spent 3 months in Europe. Preparations for exhibition in Essen, visited Austria, France and Holland again. Travelled in Provence; Avignon, Roussillon, Arles, Nimes and Aix-en-Provence, visited Cézannes' House, Studio and Museum. Visited Modern and Contemporary Galleries in Paris and received exhibition offers from Nicole Ferry Gallery in Paris and the Sojo Gallery in Amsterdam.
1996 As a recipient of the Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes Scholarship from Munich, lived in Düsseldorf for 3 months. Met and worked with the renowned International performance painter Barbara Heinisch pupil of Joseph Beuys. Attended her workshops on performance and with Düsseldorf Frauenkunst Gesellschaft. Interacted with the artists of the "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf" and met Prof. Christian Megert, Member of the Group Zero Movement. Collaborated with artists from Düsseldorf, Essen, Cologne and Berlin. Undertook research on art and design education and on the following Institutions in Germany, "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf", "Academy of Media Arts" and "die Fachhochschule Köln, in Cologne. Attended Festival of Art in Düsseldorf and Cologne. Visited Rembrandt and Van Gough Museums in Amsterdam, also discovered German Expressionists in particular Kate Kolowitz and Emil Nolde. Visited Nolde Gallery in Oberhausen. Began collaborations with the Essen artists and in particular with Herbert Siemandel-Feldmann at the Galerie Bredeney in Essen.
1991 Spent 3 Months in Europe and travelled extensively. Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Mainz, Kassel, Luxemburg, Paris and Amsterdam. Visited famous Museums and Galleries on Modern and Post Modern Painters.
1977 - 1981 Travelled to America, lived in Salt lake City, Richfield, Casper and Los Angeles. Continued Academic Degrees. Worked as commercial artist in Richfield, and Casper. Travelled extensively throughout the North America, Santa Fe and Mexico. Attended Life Drawing workshops in Richfield, and painted landscapes.
1970 Moved with parents to Sydney, Australia and continued education. Completed School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate at the Forest High, Frenchs Forest, Sydney. Continued and completed Academic Education.
1969 Childhood travels with parents to Bangkok, Hong Kong, and The Philippines: visited the historic sites in Manila, Calcutta, Mumbai and twice visited the Palace of Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
1968 Childhood travels with parents to England, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Turkey; the Topkopi Museum and Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. Visited famous Museums.
1966 & 1967 Childhood travels with parents throughout Persia (now Iran). Tehran, Tabriz, Hamadan, Ghom, Caspian Sea, Isfahan, Julfa, visited ancient monuments, Museums and the historic Persepolis in Shiraz.
 
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