How we got here!
One of the hardest resources for practicing artists to have regularly is live models. They’re expensive but invaluable! With only one other local art school offering life drawing, and its day classes being full, there were no other options. Living on the northern end of the Highlands I felt we also needed something on this side of The Gib!
So I decided to find out if anyone else was interested in regular classes? It only took one post on Facebook and I received a huge positive response from locals! It was clear that an art studio in Mittagong was desperately wanted, so the hunt for the perfect space was on!
Once I set foot in Unit 4/8 Davy Street I knew this was IT! With a huge 169msq floor area plus pre existing nooks for a photography studio and gallery, it meant I could just move in and start!
The Studios are located in Mittagong’s bustling industrial area at the foot of The Gib. Around the corner from the famous Gumnut Patisserie and up the street from Highland Marketplace.
We have ample car spaces and street parking. It is 1.5km from the Mittagong train station. Busses stop on nearby Lyell St and Bowral Rd. There’s even a great art themed B&B opposite the Bowral Rd bus stop for out-of-towners who want to make their next weekend getaway an art retreat!
I can’t wait to welcome you to the studios so you can be a part of this wonderful art resource!
xx Corinne
Image courtesy: Tony Sheffield from Highlife Magazine
Meet Corinne
Corinne moved to the Highlands over 25 years ago, met a hunky man and has never left! She started a new job painting French provincial furniture (ironically just around the corner in Priestly St), where she met Dave, one of the cabinet makers. The pair have since raised their family in the Highlands and even convinced her parents to move here!
Corinne’s journey to opening up these Mittagong studios has been paved with many other ventures along the way from market stalls, retail shops, gallery exhibitions, artist-in-residencies and photography studios. Now that the kids are older, its time to channel all her experience and skills into one amazing space!
CV
2023 to present Corinne Dany Studios
2019 Artist in Residence at Milk Factory Gallery
2017 Artist-in-residence at Dirty Janes Bowral
2015 - 2016 Julian Ashton Art School Training in Oils
2005 - 2017 Family Portrait Photographer
Group Shows
2019 - Pirtek Still Life Prize, Bowral Art Gallery
2019 - All Things Great are Small, Bowral Memorial Hall
2018 - Year of the Dog, Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral
2017 - Pirtek Still Life Prize, Bowral Art Gallery
2017 - Where are they now?, Milk Factory Gallery
2015 - Hillview Sculpture Festival
2015 - A Shot of the Highlands, Milk Factory Gallery
2015 - Southern Highlands Art Trail
2013 - Arthead Square Exhibition, Bowral Art Gallery
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Frivolly at The SHAC, Robertson
2019 - SPRUNG at The Foyer Gallery , Moss Vale
2019 - APRIL HARES at The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral
2017 - STRING GALLERY at Dirty Janes Bowral
2015 - HEAD IN THE CLOUDS at Ten Thousand Paces Gallery, Bowral
2007 - CALENDAR PRINTS at Southern Highland News Foyer, Bowral
Some of Corinne’s work
