Sue-Ann Roll

Biography

E D U C A T I O N

Bachelor of Arts – Fine Art
Caulfield Institute of Technology
(now Monash University)
1976 – 1979

Graduate Diploma in Education
Melbourne State College
(now University of Melbourne)
1980

BIOGRAPHY

Fine Art/Graphics Teacher
1981-83 Strathcona Girls Grammer School
1983-86 Parade College Bundoora
1986-88 Maullauna Secondary College

Head of the Fine Art/Graphics Department
1988-91 Maullauna Secondary College

1991–2014
• Left teaching to raise a family.
• Freelance work during this time included illustrations for pamphlets and booklets that were published for the Phillip Institute of Technology.

Accademia D’Arte, Florence
2014 – Painting / Life Drawing course

Hawthorn Artist Society
2014 to present – Weekly participant involved in various classes, special event days, exhibitions and information nights.

Russian Academy of Art, Florence
2018 – Extremely privileged to be under the private tutelage of renowned Professor Sergey Chubirko who teaches the Renaissance academic style of figure drawing dealing with the anatomy. The classes were simply awe-inspiring.

Portrait Series
2018 to present - People in my Community - Graphite on Linen Paper

Police Portraits
2020-2021 – It was my honour to be asked by the Victorian Blue Ribbon Foundation to complete 4 portraits of the fallen police of the Eastern Freeway tragedy. These were displayed at the Police Academy Chapel where the families laid wreaths during the first anniversary service.

S K I L L S

Figure drawing - Charcoal / Soft Pastels / Pencil on Paper
- Oil Pastel / Graphite on Polymer Paper

Portraiture - Pencil on Linen Paper
- Oil Pastel on Polymer Paper
- Oil on Canvas

Painting - Oil on Canvas

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