LEGENDARY chalk artist Amelia Batchelor will take to the streets of Stanthorpe at the 2016 Apple and Grape Harvest Festival.
Amelia will entertain festival goers as she creates a chalk art masterpiece on the footpath outside the Stanthorpe post office on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March 2016.
Amelia left the corporate graphic design/multimedia world more than 10 years ago to concentrate on creating artworks across many disciplines including painting, sculpture, illustration and murals.
In 2007, she discovered chalk while looking to learn more about drawing and became enthralled with using her art to interact with the public.
Amelia’s drawings graced the 2015 Brisbane Festival and, in 2014; she was one eight artists that created Australia’s largest 3D street painting at Chalk Urban Art Festival at Customs House Forecourt, Sydney. The 350sqm drawing took the artists six days to complete.
On top of her obvious artistic talent, Amelia has a passion for teaching art through workshops and working live in front of an audience.
She has appeared on the TV show, ‘Totally Wild’ with Ranger Stacey, and was commissioned by the ‘Penguins of Madagascar’ movie launch at Dreamworld.
Her work is fun, educational and engaging.
This project has been made possible by a Regional Quick Response Grant – an Australian Government initiative through the Regional Arts Fund, supporting the arts in regional and remote/isolated Australia, delivered in partnership with Artslink Queensland.
