ARTIST BIO

Name: Zinia King    D.O.B: 13 August 1993

Phone: 8388 5510    Mobile: 0421987279

E-Mail Address: zinia@ziniaking.com    Website: www.ziniaking.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ziniakingsthings    Instagram: www.instagram.com/ziniaking

Education

 Completed Year 12 or “SACE Stage 2” in 2011 at Heathfield High School

• 2011 School Captain
• Member of Student Leadership Board
• ‘Adelaide Hills Council Citizenship Award’ 
• Numerous awards for ‘Services to the School’
• Numerous awards for “Perfect Attendance”
• Numerous awards for “Outstanding Achievement” and “Academic Excellence”

Graduated from ‘Bachelor of Design - Visual Communications’ at the University of SA in 2015

• ‘Illustration’ Major
• Artwork chosen for the cover of 2017 course guide
• Nominated for GOTYA, Design Student of the Year Award

Certificates and Experience

• Artwork shortlisted for the cover of the SA Weekend Magazine 2015.
• Current Police Check
• ‘Child Safe Environments’ Training
• Marketing and Event Management Workshops
• Provide First Aid
• Mental Heath First Aid

Professional Development Experience

Small Business Owner - Zinia King Illustration and DesignJune 2014 - Present

• Retail - I reproduce my art in the form of prints, greeting cards, bookmarks, colouring books, etc. and sell them at design markets. My work also retails at various shops including the Hahndorf Academy and Urban Cow.
• Commissions - I regularly complete commissions for small business and individuals including pet portraits, album covers, children’s books, food labels and logos.
• Children’s Books - I have produced 5 published children’s books. 3 self-published, 1 published by Maxine Miller Productions and 1 published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers.
• Graphic Design - Freelance Graphic Design work for Murray Books between December 2015 and January 2016.

TeachingFebruary 2016 - Present

• Artytypes Art Classes - Casual work for Rebecca Prince relief-teaching Adult and Child art classes.
• Private -  Privately teaching art with children in their own homes.
• Workshops - Have run several workshops in various venues during School Holidays.
• Hahndorf Winter Lantern Festival - Assisting with workshops for the Hahndorf Winter Lantern Festival 2016.
• Carclew - Explore Arts Summer 2016-17 program assistant. Volunteer work in the Kids Zone at WOMAD 2017. 

Volunteer Work

• Adelaide Hills Youth Advisory Committee- From December 2014 to now I have volunteered with the Adelaide Hills YAC. Through this I have produced many posters, logos and am currently organising an exhibition at the Lobethal Woolen Mills for National Youth Week in April 2017.
• Hahndorf Academy - Casual work assisting serving wine at exhibition openings and working in the gallery shop.

Exhibitions

November 2017 ‘Adelaide Hills Stories - our people, our place, our home’ Acquisitional Art Prize at the Lobethal Woolen Mills

August 2017 ‘Into the Woods’ at Heathfield High School

August 2017 ‘Creatures - Real and Imagined’  at Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale

August 2017 - September 2017 ‘Flight’ at Thorn Clarke Winery, Barossa Valley

August 2017 ‘Moth Migration Project’ Alberqurque, USA

July 2017 ‘CHEW on This’ Charity Art Exhibition at Cold Krush, Unley

June 2017 ‘Bird Life’, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra 

April 2017 (Ongoing) ‘Floral Fauna Friends’ The Hut, Aldgate

March - April 2017 ’Frome Street Exhibition’  Shared exhibition at Urban Cow, Adelaide

December 2016 - February 2017 ‘All I Want for Christmas Is…’ Shared exhibition at Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale

November - December 2016 ‘Untamed - A Charity Art Exhibition’ at Cold Krush Gallery, Unley

April - May 2016 ‘Floral Fauna Friends’ a solo exhibition at Red Cacao Chocolatier, Stirling

February - March 2016 ‘ 3 Illustrators’ Shared exhibition with Sally Heinrich and Linda Catchlove at the Hahndorf Academy

Referees

Name: Rachel McElwee

Company: Hahndorf Academy

Email: rachel@hahndorfacademy.org.au

Phone: 08 8388 7250

Mobile: 0408 223 345

Name: Rebecca Prince

Company: Artytypes Art School

Email: princeart@live.com.au 

Phone: 0433 098 596 

Name: Mark De Lange

Company: Adelaide Hills Council

Email: mdelange@ach.sa.gov.au

Phone: 0439 833 121

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope to see you soon.