Lara Karasavvidis is an artist, art teacher and mother of two from Melbourne, Australia. 

She works in a range of two-dimensional art forms, including drawing, printmaking and painting.  Across series and subject matter, the sensibility of her studies in printmaking remain - an interest in texture, surface quality and the interplay between marks. 

Her most recent works are inspired by landscape of the coastal town of Port Fairy, a place that she has visited regularly over the past 15 years.

 

Education                         

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2009                           Master of Teaching, University of Melbourne

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2005 - 2007                Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking), 

                                   Victorian College of the Arts

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2003 - 2004                Diploma of Visual Arts, Swinburne TAFE, Prahran

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Solo Exhibitions

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2023                          Marking Memory, Boom Gallery 

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2007                           Fragments, Rooftop Bar, Melbourne

                                 

                                   Hanging Carriages, Firestation Print Studio and 

                                   Gallery

 

2005                           Imaginary places, Tomorrow Café and Gallery

                                   

 

Group Exhibitions                   

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2023                              Painting Pattern, Brunswick St Gallery

 

2022                              Object and Place, Boom Gallery

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2022                              Don't be a stranger, Brunswick St Gallery

 

2022                              Shorelines, Brunswick St Gallery

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2022 - current               Forman Art and Picture Framing

 

2021                              A touch of pink, Luone Jewellery and Gallery

 

2007                              Firestation Christmas Salon, Firestation Print

                                      Studio and Gallery, Melbourne

 

                                      Firestation Annual Show, Malvern Town Hall,

                                      Melbourne

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Awards and Prizes                            

 

2008                             Finalist, Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking

                                     Award

 

2007                             National Gallery Women’s Association 

                                     Undergraduate Encouragement Award

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