Aurora Gray

Aurora Gray is an emerging artist who uses oil paint, acrylic paint, digital media and sculpture with water based clay, however she likes to explore and experiment with other mediums. A recurring subject in her art is the female form, though she does draw men and tries to expand and study other subjects in her work. She completed a Bachelor of Creative Industries at Victoria University in 2018 then a Diploma of Visual Arts-Illustration at Melbourne Polytechnic in 2019.
Aurora begins her artworks with a sketch, resizes it digitally to match the surface she is working on and creates a grid. After transferring that to the selected surface, the painting begins, though methods differ slightly depending on the medium. She prefers oil paint because of the vibrant colours and how it blends, creating smooth skin textures, which can be great when painting the human form. Pouring her emotions out onto the canvas or into the clay her work is a cathartic expression of her mental health and sadness, but also creating some more happier artwork with fantasy and surrealist elements that she loves so much. In a way bringing the fantasy world to life through her artwork. She tends to gravitate towards blue as it’s her favourite colour and can be seen...

2023 Certificate II Engineering- Jewellery, Melbourne Polytechnic
2021 Certificate II Automotive Vocational Preparation, Kangan Institute
2019 Diploma of Visual Arts- Illustration, Melbourne Polytechnic
2016-2018 Bachelor of Creative Industries, Victoria University
2015 Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), at Point Cook Senior Secondary Collage

2024 5X7 Art Prize, Louis Joel Gallery
2021 Artworks displayed at Trocadero projects
2021 RedWest Primo Red 2 group exhibition, at C & H Gallery
2021 RedWest ’50-500’ group exhibition, at Sunshine Art Spaces
2019 ‘Illustre’ group exhibition at A Space Gallery,