Max Sharam received eight nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995; winning Best Cover Art with Dominic O'Brien for the album.
18 Facts About Max Sharam
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Max Sharam spent several years travelling around Europe where she initially made a living from busking.
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Max Sharam, while based in Rome, was part of a bohemian community of artists that included Kurt Wenner known for his groundbreaking street art.
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Max Sharam received the Star of the Year award at Genoa's Cole Porter Festival, recorded and released a dance extended play, "I'm Occupied".
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Max Sharam's story was documented in an Italian television program, La Ragazza con la Chitarra, shown on RAI TV.
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Max Sharam appeared on Red Faces, Hey Hey it's Saturday TV.
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In 1992, Max Sharam performed her self-penned song "Coma" on the television talent show New Faces, reaching the finals and attracting the attention of a number of record companies:.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 Max Sharam was nominated in eight categories, losing to Tina Arena and Silverchair, but winning ARIA Award for Best Cover Art for the album with Dominic O'Brien.
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Max Sharam re-appeared in Channel 9's TV documentary Dream Factory, shot in Los Angeles.
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In 2000, Max Sharam moved to Manhattan, New York where she continued to write.
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Max Sharam wrote and staged her first one-woman show, MadmoselleMax, for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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In 2006, Max Sharam portrayed Jean Lee in the musical The Hanging of Jean Lee, which was based on a biographical book of poems by Jordie Albiston.
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Max Sharam performed and produced the music for 2006 AFI award winning documentary Forbidden Lie$ and in 2007 wrote, performed and produced the closing credit song for Expired, a movie starring Samantha Morton, Jason Patric, Illeana Douglas and Teri Garr.
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In 2008 Max Sharam continued to tread new ground and experiment with platforms, creating video performance based art.
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Max Sharam was invited to join the New York Foundation for the Arts, a not-for-profit arts organization, panel for Video Art.
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In February 2009 Max Sharam returned to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with her show Songs and Stories from My Suitcase.
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Max Sharam created the music and sound design for the play Anaconda, which won 'Best Original Play' at Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2012.
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In 2020, Max Sharam portrayed the ghost of Jean Lee in the docudrama A Miscarriage of Justice based on the hanging of Ronald Ryan.