Danielle Pirrie

Danielle Pirrie is a professional portraiture artist living on the Far South Coast of Australia whose vibrant, colourful work is characterized by her passion for the complexities and fascination of the human state and her outstanding ability to capture something essential of the subject and their world.
Danielle's latest exhibition 'Maestro and Muse' at the Ivy Hill Gallery in Wapengo, NSW in 2012, was a great success. featuring a series of portraits and figurative pieces based on her interest in Renaissance Art, her links to Italy and the visit of a famous Italian Viol da Gamba player Paolo Pandolfo in 2010.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1965, Danielle Pirrie comes from an artistic family with father Kenneth Pirrie a well known fashion designer in the 1960's and 70's, and mother Eve an art collector, designer and creative consultant.
Since 1980 Danielle has accepted regular portrait commission with works now in private collections in Australia, the U.K., Italy and the USA.
On leaving Australia to live abroad, she was the artist on an independent feature film production 'Against the Tide', has taught privately and won a 20metre mural commission in the USA, studied the nude at the Academia di Belle Arti and taught in a art studio backing onto a 3000 year old Etruscan wall in Perugia, Italy.
Returning to Australia in 1999 Danielle was a member of the Brighton and Mentone Arts Societies and since moving to the Bega Valley in 2004, has concentrated on teaching and building her career in Portraiture.
In 2007 Danielle was invited to participate in the curated show 'Making Faces' at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery and has exhibited 4 shows since 2006 at Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo NSW.
Danielle Pirrie's work has twice been accepted as a finalist in the prestigious Shirley Hannan Portraiture Prize, in 2008 and 2012.
She was an entrant in the prestigious 2009 Archibald Prize, painting the world renown Australian Architect, Phillip Cox.

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