Sophie Downey

I am known as The Saxoffender. I specialise in the Art of Rock’n’Roll. Every work I paint, has an underlying musical theme, or a track, that goes with it.

For example, my painting of Robert Plant is about rockstar privacy, and how people with intensely public images, deal with tragedy in their personal lives. The title of the painting is “Three Black Dogs Called Saxoffender. Portrait of Robert Plant.”

I learned three versions of Led Zeppelin’s iconic track ‘Black Dog’, on saxophone, while I was painting Mr Plant. That includes Jimmy Page’s guitar solos. Buy the painting, you get the performance, if you want. :)

Every piece of art I finish has an ultimate humanitarian objective. I try to apply part proceeds of everything creative projects I do, somehow, to social causes. My primary areas have been Prostate Cancer Awareness, World Suicide Prevention, and the Prevention Of Cruelty Against Animals.

So if you buy a piece of art by The Saxoffender, you are entitled to an additional feel good buzz. You are helping make the World a better, more compassionate, place.

Crusading for Compassionate Causes I thought would be appealing to people. But in my home town of Adelaide, South Australia, the opposite seems to have occu...

RESUME: SOPHIE HENRIETTA DOWNEY (LLB, Hons.)

Date of Birth: 3 May 1973
Address: 4 Blaikie Court, BROMPTON SA 5007
Telephone: 0437796901
Email: sophiedowney6@gmail.com
ABN: 197 375 503 145
Website: Via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/sophiedowneyartist

CAREER SUMMARY

June 2014-August 2014: Student, New York Studio School, Life Drawing, Portrait Programme and Life Painting summer courses..

March 2014: Pimlotts Prize, Royal South Australian Society for Arts, “Characters of the Fleurieu” exhibition, for portrait “The Wine Drinker – Portrait of Simon Hackett” (homage to Degas’ painting “L’Absinthe”).

February 2014: Adelaide University, Bachelor of Music, majoring in Jazz Performance (tenor saxophone). (I began the degree but withdrew when I was accepted by the New York Studio School).

2013: Merit Award, Royal South Australian Society for Arts, “Summer Daze” exhibition, for portrait “Sir James Hardy”.

July 2005 – Nov. 2014: Bar Chambers, Barrister.
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September 2005: Signed the Bar Roll.

2004: Painting exhibited in the Whyalla Art Prize.

1995-2011 (Intermittent): Student, Short Courses, Adelaide Central School of Art, including Life Drawing, Life Painting, Tonal Realism, Advanc...

2015 First solo exhibition. “Retroprospective”. Fisher Jeffries Barristers and Solicitors, Adelaide.
2015 Finalist South Australian Society For Arts Portrait Prize, Second Runner Up for the People’s Choice Award
2015 Australian Living Artists Festival Adelaide, exhibition at the Gaslight Tavern.
2016. Adelaide Fringe Festival, exhibition at the Wildwood Galleries, Adelaide.
2016 Finalist Royal South Australian Society For Arts, Characters Of The Fleurieu Portrait Prize.
2016 South Australian Living Artists Festival, solo exhibition at the Adelaide Convention Centre, “Who Do You Think You Are?”.
2016. Finalist Mission To Seafarers Art Prize, Melbourne
2016. The Foundation’s Choice, Kennedy Art Prize.
2017 Solo exhibition opened by the Lady Mayoress Of Adelaide at Producers Hotel, Adelaide
2017 Finalist with two entries (first ever) in the Kennedy Art Prize
2018 Invited to London to play saxophone with Rolling Stones Tribute Band IORR (It’s Only Rock’n’Roll) pre the Rolling Stones London Concert.