Emma Sheldrake

Hailing from an artistic family, Emma Sheldrake has worked across a wide range of creative industries and is fast gaining recognition for her unique style of painting. 

Bold, striking, spontaneous and captivating, Emma's works reflect the fact that painting liberates her passion and energy.

Em's signature style drips with seductive intent, blending figurative art with the mischievousness of Pop Art and the subtleties of eroticism. Bold colour combinations, daring brush strokes, irreverent drips and enticing eyes define the power of her images to seduce the onlooker.

Largely influenced by her experiences in the fashion industry, her works are commentaries on how beauty is reflected in the media, its mesmeric portrayal and obscured depths. The flawless beauty of her subjects seeps from the pages of stereotyped fashion magazines into an unbound representation of character, rich with personality and evocative imperfections.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

1975 Born Brisbane

1992 - 1995 Bachelor of Visual Art in Graphic Design

2000 - 01 Chairperson AFA ‘Youngbloods' (Young People in Advertising)

2002 - 05 Lecturer Advertising and Graphic Design, Griffith University, Southbank, Brisbane 

2000-2002 Art Director George Patterson Bates

2002-present Creative Director/Designer, Sheldrake Creative

2007 Lecturer Advertising and Graphic Design, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Brisbane

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007 Art Shanghai, China

2007 Art Sydney

2007 So Fresh, Paddington Contemporary Gallery, Sydney

2007 Cerebral Palsy ‘Art for Art's Sake', Waterfront Place, Brisbane

2007 ‘Female Energy', Lapart Gallery, Brisbane

2006 07 Baguette Gallery, Baguette Restaurant

2006 Solo Exhibition ‘Confronted' Living edge, Brunswick St, `Brisbane

2006 May, Charity Exhibition for Geraldine Cox's Orphanage in Cambodia

2006 ‘Art for Arts Sake' Brisbane Powerhouse

2005 ‘Art for Arts Sake' Brisbane Powerhouse

2003 The Suncorp Art & Soul Charity Auction, Queensland Art Gallery

2003 Common Threads - Design Exhibition

2002 ‘A mixed exhibition', Brisbane Powerhouse

1998 Edwards Dunlop's Best of Graphic Design Exhibition

AWARDS

2007 Nominated Telstra Business Woman of the Year

2007 2001 - 04 Numerous Brisbane Art Directors awards for Literature, Corporate Design, interactive Media, Packaging and Creative Imaging

2002 Australian Catalogue Awards, Highly Commended

2001 Australian Cinematographers Awards

2001 The Cordiant Scholarship, Queensland Division

1998 Finalist, Absolut Vodka Photography Competition - Exhibition Sydney Opera House Finalist, Design Downunder Awards - Exhibition Sydney Opera House Finalist, Australian Catalogue Awards.

COMMISSIONS

Elation album cover ‘Red Letter' *

2007 Lady Mayoress Charity Ball Auction

2007 Angel Flight Auction

Emma is in constant demand as a gifted portrait painter who captures the essence of the individual in a modern and upbeat manner.