Maria Radun
Maria was always destined to be an artist. Born in Crimea by the Black Sea, she drew from a young age absorbing the influences of European art while spending time in nature, before moving to Australia as a teenager.
As a qualified illustrator and graphic designer, Maria worked in the design industry before dedicating herself to her art full-time. In 2018 she completed a BFA at Monash University before studying under the mentorship of Australian tonalist painters honing the enduring techniques of classical oil painting.
Maria’s landscapes and still-life works are her reference points for the beauty all around her. The daily ritual of drawing and painting has instilled in her a capacity to observe the world deeply and intuitively while the richness of her acquired knowledge lends itself to paintings that hold within them an essence of profound emotion.
Alongside her continued dedication to perfecting her craft, Maria harbours a fascination for art’s capacity to act as an antithesis of today’s fast-paced culture. Her paintings encourage viewers to be present, to feel the moment, notice beauty in the everyday, and savour those fleeting moments that make the world feel more like home.
Education:
2018 – Monash University, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2012 – University of the Sunshine Coast, Bachelor of Computer Based Design, QLD
2004 – Chisholm Institute of TAFE, Diploma of Illustration
Awards:
2024 Curator’s Choice Award, VAS Spring Select Exhibition
2024 Recipient of Cecilia Beaux Mentorship Program, American Portrait Society Finalist
2023 40 Under 40 Art Prize Finalist
2023 Norma Bull Portrait prize, VAS Finalist
2022 A.M.E Bale Traveling Scholarship & Painting Award Highly Commended
2022 VAS Spring Select, Summer Select & Portrait Exhibtion Finalist
2022 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Award Finalist
2021 Tacit Still Life Prize Finalist
2021& 2022 Art Lovers Australia Prize Finalist
2019 Wyndham Art Prize Finalist
2019 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
2010 ADFAS Curatorial Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 “Grounded”, Kelli Lundberg Art, Vic
2023 “Present Sense”, Frankston Arts Centre, Vic
2021 “Stay a While”, Cook Street Collective Gallery, Flinders, Vic
2018 Box Hill Arts Community Centre, Vic
2018 Intermission Gallery, Monash University, Vic Artist CV Group
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 Silent Wings Exhibition, Kerri Greens Winery, Red Hill
2022 Winter Solstice Exhibition, Kerri Greens Winery, Red Hill
2022 Fifty Squared, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2022 Police Point Retrospective Exhibition, Point Nepean
2020 True Form Group Show - Curation by Maria, Mornington
2017 Her-Story Exhibition, Sydney
Residencies:
2024 Peninsula Grammar, Vic 2024 Kelli Lundberg Art, Vic
2023 & 2025 The Pickers Hut Residency, Galziers Bay, Tasmania
2018 Police Point Artist in Residence program, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Vic
2018 Residency at Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Vic
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