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Lucy Fekete

Award winning Fine Artist Lucy Fekete teaches regularly as an art tutor at VAS, covering classes in oil painting, acrylic painting and also drawing. Her experience includes 15+ years as a very versatile and creative freelance Illustrator.

In 2024 and 2023 she received Highly Commended for her work in the VAS George Hicks Contemporary Exhibition and the 2023 VAS Portrait Exhibition. Lucy was also a 2023 Kennedy Prize Finalist. 

In 2022, Lucy was the recipient of the Annie Davison Oliver Award in the 113th MSWPS Annual Exhibition 'Changing Perspectives', a Southern Buoy Studios Finalist (both 2022 and 2021) as well as a Highly Commended recipient in the 2022 VAS Autumn Select exhibition. 

Her Illustration industry experience includes Concept/Visualisation Artist for advertising firms and a Children's Book Illustrator for publishing companies.


Education

2005 - 2006 Melbourne University, PG Dip Arts Management

1999 - 2001 RMIT, BA Creative Advertising


Glasgow 2004, I was 23 years old and I remember sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the coffee table opposite my flatmate and fellow co-worker, Craig. He was about to give me a demonstration on how to use acrylic paint with a glazing medium—something I had never done before. 

This was during the second and final year of my working holiday visa in the UK. Craig and I both worked at the Artstore situated on Queen Street opposite the Gallery of Modern Art. Craig looked after the painting aisle and I the drawing pen aisle.

High school had been the last time I'd painted, and I had always been keen to try again, however I felt somewhat lost and overwhelmed, so Craig had offered to show me his technique and process on our day off. 

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That afternoon sitting in our apartment, painting a bowl of fruit was ‘the moment’. It was the moment where I knew that I wanted to be a painter. He doesn't know it, but I thank Craig for that impromptu painting session. 

At the end of my visa, I returned home to Australia and completed a postgraduate diploma in Arts Management at the University of Melbourne. After that I entered the world of advertising as a freelance Illustrator doing storyboards and concept illustrations for ad agencies. Later I illustrated a number of children's books and undertook a variety of private commissions. 

I continued to paint on the side between illustration jobs. Then in 2008 I had my first exhibition. It was with two friends at a gallery in Collingwood. We didn't sell much but the turnout was huge! From there I joined an art collective and started to enter art prizes. Many of my entries were unsuccessful and that often felt demoralising, until in 2015 I was a finalist in the coveted Portia Geach. I was so thrilled!

From there I received an invitation from artist Jo Reitze VAS FVAS to join MSWPS, which I did in 2016. Jo had been my art teacher in high school and has since become an inspiring role model and mentor, which is why I eventually asked her to sit for me. To date my portrait of her has appeared in three shows including as a finalist in the 2022 Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize. Jo's portrait was the first painting I did using oils after years of only painting with acrylic.

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'Cyclopes Mermaid and Zee Cat Burglar' Acrylic on Canvas by Lucy Fekete

When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, I was a new mum. Being a new mum plus managing illustration work and finding time to paint in the middle of what seemed like a never-ending lockdown was too much. Something had to go. So I said goodbye to illustration.

Then at the start of 2022 I was nominated to join the MSWPS committee, that same week I also decided to join VAS. My intention of joining VAS was to connect with painters in that community and learn more about how others were using oils. I also wanted to meet other artists in real life after being in lockdown for so long and I wanted to grow my visibility as an artist. 

Since being at VAS I have had many wonderful experiences and opportunities which I am grateful for. Receiving a Highly Commended Award from guest judge Peter Wegner at the VAS Autumn Select Exhibition and participating in the Portrait Painters Open Day are definite highlights. Additionally, having the opportunity to participate in so many of the exhibitions in a beautiful heritage building has been amazing. Being a member of VAS reinforces ‘that moment’ where I knew I wanted to be a painter.


Classes by Lucy Fekete

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Acrylic Painting & Glazing

Lucy Fekete
Friday 19 Jan 2024, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
11:00 am – 4:30 pm
Learn how to create a finished and professional looking artwork using the indirect painting method and glazing technique with acrylic paint
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Body of Work: Acrylic or Oil Studio Sessions

Lucy Fekete
Sunday morning - 10 week term
21 Jul 2024 – 22 Sep 2024
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Hone your skills and follow your artistic interests in this supervised studio-style environment.
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Simplifying Alla Prima Portraiture

Lucy Fekete
5 Oct 2024 – 6 Oct 2024
10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Simplify the steps taken to accurately paint a painterly portrait at “first attempt” with a real life model, for both complete beginners as well as those with some experience.
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Fekete Studio

Body of Work: Acrylic or Oil Studio Sessions

Lucy Fekete
Sunday morning - 10 week term
13 Oct 2024 – 15 Dec 2024
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Hone your skills and follow your artistic interests in this supervised studio-style environment.
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Works by Lucy Fekete

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Titania
Lucy Fekete
50cm (W) x 60cm (H) x 5cm (D)
Oil on Canvas

Not for sale
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Night Vision Kink
Lucy Fekete
25cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Colour Pencil on Board
$ 500.00
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Saucepan Man is a Little Teapot
Lucy Fekete
13cm (W) x 23cm (H)
Oil on Board
$ 720.00
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Year of the Dragon
Lucy Fekete
23cm (W) x 13cm (H)
Oil on Board
SOLD
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Alone in Thought
Lucy Fekete
28cm (W) x 33cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Oil on canvas board

Not for sale
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Vegan Monthly
Lucy Fekete
23cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD
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Ying and Yang
Lucy Fekete
41cm (W) x 31cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD
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Sexy Legs
Lucy Fekete
28cm (W) x 36cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD
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My Loves
Lucy Fekete
101cm (W) x 76cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
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$ 12,000.00
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2024 Summer Issue
Lucy Fekete
33cm (W) x 43cm (H) x 4.5cm (D)
Acrylic on Canvas

Not for sale
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Trevor
Lucy Fekete
43cm (W) x 53cm (H) x 5cm (D)
Oil on Canvas
$ 1,300.00
The Brooding & Complex Cheerful Sun
Lucy Fekete
55cm (W) x 65cm (H) x 5cm (D)
Mixed Media
Award Winner Banner4
$ 6,500.00
Mural Prep (Portrait of Charlotte Clemens)
Lucy Fekete
75cm (W) x 60cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Oil on canvas
$ 4,600.00
Duality
Lucy Fekete
91cm (W) x 61cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Oil on canvas
$ 8,500.00
Silly Fat Cow and a Two Faced B****
Lucy Fekete
36cm (W) x 46cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
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$ 6,000.00
Non Senses
Lucy Fekete
40cm (W) x 40cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Mixed media
$ 450.00
Thursday Night (portrait of Victoria Duggan)
Lucy Fekete
50cm (W) x 70cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Oil on canvas
$ 3,500.00
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Lyoness (Portrait of Melbourne Composer May Lyon)
Lucy Fekete
50cm (W) x 60cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Acrylic on Canvas

Not for sale
Jo Working in the Garden
Lucy Fekete
41cm (W) x 51cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Oil on canvas
$ 1,950.00
Dreaming of La Macina di San Cresci (portrait of Wendy Dixon-Whiley)
Lucy Fekete
46cm (W) x 61cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Oil on Canvas
$ 3,500.00
Painting While Waiting
Lucy Fekete
61cm (W) x 51cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
Award Winner Banner4
$ 2,700.00
The Collective Subconscious and Workplace Politics
Lucy Fekete
40cm (W) x 40cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Mixed media
$ 450.00
Intuition vs Ego
Lucy Fekete
40cm (W) x 40cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Mixed media
$ 450.00
Amalgam
Lucy Fekete
46cm (W) x 62cm (H) x 5cm (D)
Acrylic on canvas
$ 1,600.00
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