Tutors
Students at Sydney Art School benefit from hands on training in a working art studio. Studio session are tutored by a wide range of award winning artists & practicing industry professionals (with established businesses within the visual arts and design industries).
Krista Brennan
Krista is a Senior Tutor and Student Liaison Officer at Sydney Art School.
Krista is a qualified Trainer and Assessor and holds the qualifications
Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts & Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
Her specialist medium is watercolour, tackling a diverse range of subjects and styles with her bold, intense, realistic approach. Her commissioned works include books, card games, portraits and landscapes.
She is a passionate artist and enthusiastic tutor, dedicated to supporting her students in achieving their artistic goals.
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Peter Mackie
Peter Mackie is a senior tutor at Sydney Art School.
He is a qualified trainer and assessor and holds a Bachelor of Design and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
Peter teaches Printmaking, Life Drawing and Beginners Painting and Drawing
He has over 30 years experience as a designer, commercial artist and art director. Working in both traditional and digital mediums he has created design and illustrations for organisations large and small.
Peter is an accomplished artist whose art practice includes drawing, painting, printmaking and digital-artwork.
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Samantha Wiltshire
Sam’s students benefit from her exceptionally strong skills in drawing and painting.
She has won the Hornsby Art Prize Emerging Artists Award & was First Place in the Hornsby Young Artists Competition.
Samantha holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (specialising painting and drawing) and a Bachelor of Arts with Class 1 Honours in History. She is also a qualified training and assessor under the Australian Qualifications Framework and is one of our Student Liaison Officers for Diploma students.
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Matthew Weatherstone
Matthew is a Senior Tutor at Sydney Art School.
He is a qualified trainer and assessor and holds an
Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts and a
Certificate IV in Training & Assessment.
As a professional artist his consistent success in commission sales and exhibitions enable him to provide insights to his students.
As an artist his strong technical skills are evident in his work – but are balanced with a highly developed approach to the concept and messages that is being communicated to the viewer.
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Cristina Aura
Cristina is a Senior Tutor at Sydney Art School and a qualified Trainer and Assessor.
She holds a
Masters Degree in Painting from the prestigious ‘Ion Andreescu’ Institute for Visual Arts and a
Bachelor of Adult education.
Cristina will improve your skills to a level you never thought possible. Her attention to detail is second to none.
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Christina Rogers
Christina left her role as a Commercial Operations Manager in the end of 2011 to pursue intensive training in drawing and painting.
She is currently building a career as a portrait artist and painter of bespoke commissions.
Her main focus is on portraiture, working mostly from life, using oils in the Alla Prima method. She enjoys the challenge of capturing the observable, the hidden and the inferred, as evidenced in a sitter’s face and environment.
While classically trained in Sydney and London, she adds her own expressive touches to her works – combining the real with the imagined and experiments with different media. She also paints landscapes, still life and large abstract works.
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Michael Simms
Michael Simms is a multi-award winning artist based in Sydney. Born in Adelaide, he completed degrees in psychology and film at Flinders University.
Michael’s art demonstrates an deep command of classical skills combined with a contemporary perspective on his subjects.
For any student he provides a strong ability to help you develop your technique and approach to art as well as practical guidance on developing your career as a professional artis.
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Jackson Davies
Jackson is a Senior Tutor at Sydney Art School
He holds a Bachelor of Fina Arts and a
Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
Jackson has been a finalist and semi-finalist in the Doug Moran and Mosman Art Prizes, and a Winner of the Northern Beaches Art Prize. Jackson has held residencies in Sweden and Portugal and his work appears in private collections around Australia.
Jackson Davies is an oil painter based in Sydney. He is inspired by the face and the figure, and predominantly works from life to create paintings that are contemplative and emotive, with a depth of mystery
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Sue Ashpole
After initially building a succesful career in the corporate sector Sue has moved into the world of visual arts where she has specialised in pottery and silver jewellery.
Sue has been Certified as an Advanced Instructor and assessor for Art Clay Silver and also tutors children’s classes in painting and drawing.
Sue also holds the position of Studio Manager at Sydney Art School.
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Morris Yang
Tutor for Diploma Students
Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (candidate) at Sydney Art School
Finalist – Hornsby Art Prize 2022
Morris is a professional art tutor and surveyor.
His true love is painting art, especially portraits. His work centres on capturing the emotions and the soul of the most amazing creatures that God has ever created for the whole world – human beings.
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Joseph de la Hoyd
Tutor
Finalist – Hornsby Art Prize 2022, 2021, 2019
Joseph is an Australian musician, composer, record producer and visual artist
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Jules Read
Jules is a silversmith and jeweller.
Metal Clay & Silversmithing are her two artist passions. Jules uses a variety of traditional techniques in her work but her favourite things to create is mixed medium pieces made from both metal clay & precious metals such as sterling silver & gold.
Teaching & sharing her jewellery passion enables her to interact with people who love what she loves & that’s such a beautiful thing.
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Tim de la Hoyde
Tim De La Hoyd is a Tutor at Sydney Art School
He is a graduate of Sydney Art School and holds a Diploma of Visual Arts
Tim is a multi-media artist and music producer.
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Olena Kosenko
Artist … turned succesful designer/businesswoman … turned artist … as a role model and mentor Olena has a great deal to offer for both young and mature students of art.
Olena is a consultant tutor and course Director for Children’s Classes at Sydney Art School.
Her list of awards is impressive and grows at a rate faster than we can keep up with.
Her style while grounded in classical fine arts is distinctly contemporary displaying strong design skills often using architectural or industrial subjects with surreal interpretations.
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Valeriia Sedlak
Valeriia Sedlak is a multimedia artist with over six years of experience in art education.
Since 2021, she has been an artist educator at Sydney Art School, where she inspires creativity and hones the skills of her students of all ages.
Currently in her final year at UNSW, majoring in Painting and Printmaking within the Art, Design, and Architecture degree, Valeriia combines traditional and contemporary techniques to create evocative artworks.
Kristin Hardiman
Kristin Hardiman is one of Australia’s leading portrait and equine artists and is an Exhibiting Member of the Portrait Artists Australia. Her awards include:
- Finalist Clifton Art Prize 2016
- Finalist Gallipoli Memorial Prize 2016, 2015, 2013
- Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Prize 2014
- Winner International Inglis Equine Art Prize 2011
She holds a Diploma Fine Arts and Education from the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (now The University of NSW Art and Design) and has been working as a professional artist and teacher for nearly 30 years.
Kristin is also an Assessor and senior tutor.
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Join the SAS Team
Sydney Art School continues to grow and we are always on the lookout for great tutors.
The quality of our tutors is a key ingredient in the success of the School.
The School engages tutors on a sessional basis, & our team of tutors includes graduates of Sydney Art School, professional teachers and qualified trainers and even some university lecturers.
If you would like to find out more about opportunities to be a tutor at Sydney Art School then we would love to hear from you.
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Gary Myers
A prolific artists, lovable rogue and entertainer. Gary loves to communicate with his students and help them to connect to a vibrant and colorful outback.
He once rode a motorcylce around Australia … funding his trip by by paintings he created sold and bartered during his 9 month adventure.
Back in the studio Gary has an ability to help his students discover to a new way of seeing and representing their subject matter in their own artistic style.
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