Amna Irshad
Makeup, hair, multi-media artist and photographer/videographer.
A qualified artist with 10 years of professional training in Arts
at University and art college, she holds a double masters. Her first
masters was in Visual Arts and her second in Multimedia Arts.
Having worked in different fields of art,
she then completed a series of short courses in make up.
With a love of painting and teaching, she
taught painting on different satellite channels in her birth country
which were broadcast worldwide.
She tried many techniques in art including
a business in candle making, painting (has sold oil paintings),
set designing and even made a 3D animation movie.
When she moved to Australia, she wanted to
start her artwork here and took up teaching makeup application.
She found that she left a 'wow factor' after application, the positive
feedback from making people feel good encouraged her to pursue this
field full-time. She has assisted wiith a team of photographers,
actors/ models working on ad shoots, bridal makeup, etc.
She has acted in several TV shows and films
in Australia. A one year part-time acting course at Verve Studio
in 2007 in Melbourne helped her get a few extra parts in five episodes
of Neighbours and as an actor in a music video and a scene in a
Holywood movie, Killer Elite, staring Dominic, Clive Oven and Robert
D Niro.
She also completed a documentary production short course at RMIT
in 2006.
To keep up to date on trends, she participates
in regular makeup & hair courses.
In February 2010, she completed a Motives
cosmetic training course and assisted on a Worksafe ad.
An interest in dancing has seen her working
with a Salsa foundation, performing all over Melbourne.
She helped produce an Australian major feature
film "Model Behaviour" (and did much of the makeup) working
with actor and producer Nathan Hill. This movie won Best Film Award
at the California Film Festival 2013.
In 2017 Amna also producedand videoed a major
Bollywood Music Video.
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