Tanya Bechara

2008 Sydney Teapot Show, Inner City Clay workers Co-operative, Glebe.
   
2007 Sydney Teapot Show, Inner City Clay workers Co-operative, Glebe.
   
2006 Sydney Teapot Show, Inner City Clay workers Co-operative, Glebe.
   
2005 “Visual Appeal of Ettalong” Art Studio, Ettalong Beach.
  Sydney Teapot Show, Inner City Clay workers Co-operative, Glebe.
   
2004 ArtsNorth Exhibition.
  Sydney Teapot Show, Inner City Clay workers Co-operative, Glebe.
  Quay Fine Art Gallery at The Rocks, Sydney.
   
2003 ArtsNorth Exhibition.
  49th Hunters Hill Art & Craft Exhibition.
  Quay Fine Art Gallery at The Rocks, Sydney.
   
2004 Certificate III in ceramics.
  Completed and passed all requirements, obtaining a distinction in surface treatment.
   
2003 TAFE Statement of Attainment in Hand forming Practice .
  Obtaining a distinction in surface treatment.
   
2002 TAFE Statement of Attainment Ceramics Surface Treatment Training Program.
   
2001 TAFE Statement of Attainment Wheel Forming Practice Training Program.
   
2008 Australian Ceramics Glasswork & Pottery Magazine Vol 10 No 1
   
2007 Australian Ceramics & Pottery Magazine Vol 8 No 3 (January 2007)
   
2004
Pottery In Australia magazine, The journal of Australian Ceramics 43 #2 2004
   
2003 Studio of “Omelette Designs”
  Worked in the studio painting underglaze designs on their slip-cast wares.
   
1989-1997 Airbrush Artist
 
    Primarily painting the make-up on fibre-glass mannequin faces to be displayed in shop fronts of well known retailers. Supervised the make-up department and was in charge of quality control and training new make-up artists in the use of an airbrush and hand finished detail.
    Some of the Airbrushed works include:
    • The faces on “Don Bradman” mannequin for the Sydney Cricket Ground Sports Museum.
    • 16 Masks of the actor Max Cullen for the Dream Sequence in the Australian movie “Billy’s Holiday”.
    • All of the mannequins on display showing events in the life of Mary McKillop in the Mary McKillop Place Museum, Chapel and Retreat Centre, North Sydney.