Ms Shevaun Wright
2017
Australian Cultural (Tim Fairfax AC and Australia Council of the Arts) John Monash Scholar
Master of Fine Art
fine art
UCLA
United States of America
Fine Art and Music
Shevaun holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from Macquarie University, a Master of Laws from The University of Melbourne and a Master of Arts from the University of New South Wales. She worked as a commercial lawyer for five years and is now a practicing artist. An Indigenous Australian, she was the first recipient of the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Postgraduate Scholarship. She completed a residency at the Art and Law Program in New York, and the prestigious Whitney Independent Study Program. Her study at UCLA will use art to explore areas of gender, domestic violence and Indigenous rights.