Artist Profiles

Wendy Fantasia: Supreme winner of Melbourne Body Art Competition's 2010

Supreme winner of Melbourne Body Art Competition's 2010, the Australian body artist Wendy Fantasia shares her passion of fifteen year - firstly in Melbourne, then moving to Adelaide - teaching face painting for workshops and painting classes. pic_of_wendy_fantasia

Last March Wendy launched "The Imagineers" with body painter Toni Anne Smallman, a company which promotes Face and body painting, "captures the adventurous and whimsical nature of many body painting designs" (www.wendyfantasia.com).

Wendy has successful participated in many competitions in Australia and thanks to the NZ Body Art Trust she has won a place to compete in the NZBAA on Saturday 2nd October.

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Kelly Zhong-Ni Ren: An extraordinary artist and Supreme Winner 2009

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After winning the category "Best emerging artist" at the NZ BodyArtAwards 2008, Kelly Zhong-Ni Ren showed in 2009 again that she really deserved that prize - by winning two categories at once during the this year's NZ BodyArt Awards: Kelly got the first place in the SPFX Fantasy category and won the Supreme Award!

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Kelly is orginally from China, where she graduated from Hong Kong Monita Hair & Beauty College in 2001, specializing in beauty and personal fashion design. After that, she acted as a senior lecturer for styling classes and was head of this department at Monita College before migrating to NZ in 2006, where she established her REN'S EFFECTS Styling Company by the end of 2008.

Her professionalism and creativity is extraordinary and therefore she got various certificates and other awards as well, for example she won the NZ Pasifika Body Painting category in 2008.

Carmel McCormick 2008 Supreme Winner

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The North Shore City supreme award went to Carmel McCormick, whose dual entry of a lizard man and a jungle boy impressed the adjudicators.

McCormick - who also won the North Shore City supreme award last year - said she was delighted to win the top prize in the Hand Painted Body Art category for the third year running and felt "unbelievably lucky". In accepting the supreme award she thanked her models, who she said were her "number one priority" and said she was not certain when she began painting on Saturday morning how the designs would turn out. "I couldn't believe how it all came together in the end," she said. The model for McCormick's lizard, Levi, was awarded the prize for best performance by a model. He spent much of the show on all fours, standing only to accept his award at the end of the night.

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