ABOUT REEVA

Arriving in Australia during early childhood, art has been my method of exploring and understanding the world, even at a time when verbal communication in my new environment was difficult. Drawing transformed into a love for photography in late adolescence, gaining recognition by winning the 2006 My Monty local photography competition and becoming a finalist in the 2007 Doug Moran Photographic Prize (student category). In early adulthood, after engaging in numerous short painting courses, I proceeded to explore my desire to paint, completing 1.5 years towards a Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts) at the Victorian College of the Arts. While art remained a passion of mine over the years, it wasn’t until 2020 where I began to re-explore art on a more serious level, merging my interest in photography with the painted medium. I began submitting to art awards and won the AGES Society Art Prize 2024/25, won a Highly Commended prize in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2024, and became a finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2023, Bluethumb Art Prize 2023, Petite Collection Small Works Art Prize 2023, and Agendo Art Prize 2021, to name a few. I have also began exhibiting my work and have had two solo exhibitions (The Arts Lounge Wyreena, VIC 2023; NWC Wotso Pyrmont, NSW 2022) and various group exhibitions (e.g., Affordable Art Fair, QLD 2024 & NSW 2023; Gallery One 88, NSW 2023). My work is complex and contradictory, merging the photographic medium with paint, the digital with traditional, and the abstract with realism.