BIO
Born in Italy, Erica Covolan is a Sydney-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing and printmaking.
Her personal experience of migration heavily permeates and informs her approach to artmaking, weaving personal memories with the aim of exploring places, objects, feelings and forms that are in between, in constant flux between two opposites, impermanent and ephemeral, subject to constant change.
After moving to Sydney in 1999, she attained an Advanced Diploma of Interior Design and worked for some of the most prominent Interior Design and Architectural firms in Sydney for more than 10 years.
In 2016 she decided to follow her lifelong passion for art, starting with short courses in illustration, ceramic, painting, and drawing. In 2020 she enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Art course at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, which she will complete in 2022 majoring in Printmaking.
CV
EDUCATION
2020 – present / Bachelor of Fine Art at National Art School, Sydney
2007 / Adv. Diploma of Interior Design, Enmore Design Centre
1991 / Diploma Istituto Turistico ‘G. Mazzotti’, Treviso (Italy)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 / Library Inserts at Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School
2022 / Pickled at Goodspace Gallery, Sydney
2022 / No Clip at Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School
PRIZES & AWARDS
2022 / Finalist in Kangaroo Valley Art Prize
2022 / Finalist in Ku-Ring-Gai Sculpture Trail
2022 / Finalist in Nomad X NAS competition
2020 / Finalist in Ryde SWAP Prize
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
2022 / 20x20 Print Exchange project between National Art School, Curtin University, RMIT, and the University of Southern Queensland
