Australian Women Artists

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 88 Emily Ferretti Emily Ferretti is a Melbourne-based painter whose still-life and landscape images move between representation and abstraction. The importance of feeling and emotion becomes obvious looking at her work. She grew up on a property in country Victoria, trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, and has since built a career via residencies at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne, the Cité Internationa...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 86 Elizabeth Barnett Elizabeth Barnett is a painter and printmaker who also utilises textiles and pottery. Her still life and interior paintings have become instantly recognisable — plant-filled nooks, stacked books, jugs and vases, all rendered in a distinct palette that reflects the season. She has a deep reverence for the everyday. From her early training in the rigorous world of printmaking to lush, translucent...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 74 Rachel Milne Rachel Milne is a Newcastle-based painter whose work turns everyday interiors, objects, and moments into beautifully compelling paintings. Rachel grew up in Cambridge, trained in Cardiff, and built an early career in Britain serious enough to earn her membership of the Royal West of England Academy. Then, in 2013, she packed up and moved to the other side of the world — to Newcastle, New South...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 72 Lily Mae Martin Lily Mae Martin is a remarkable visual artist known for her deeply personal explorations of womanhood, motherhood, and the human condition. Her own strength and resilience in the face of, at times, enormous challenges, is remarkable. She is celebrated for her masterful draughtsmanship, particularly her delicate and detailed cross-hatching using fine liner ink pens, building up thousands upon thousands of tiny line...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 70 Lisa Bale It would probably be fair to say that Lisa Bale sits outside the art establishment. She lives and works remotely on a bush property situated in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Not having formal art training has been no hindrance to an exceptional talent. In fact, it’s probably a big contributing factor to her success. Her works are witty, surprising, and visually arresting takes on modern-...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 68 Suzanne Archer Across six decades, Suzanne Archer has forged a singular career in Australian art, marked by independence from curatorial trends and sustained commitment to difficult subjects. From youthful abstraction through immersion in the Australian bush to a fearless confrontation with death and time. Suzanne has won major prizes including the Wynne Prize for landscape and the Dobell ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 66 Dagmar Cyrulla Dagmar Cyrulla is an Australian contemporary artist whose work grew out of a lifelong interest in people, relationships, and the emotional texture of ordinary life. Born in Germany and raised in Sydney from age one, she developed an art practice that blends portraiture, domestic scenes, and psychological observation into stories about human connection. She is a distinguished figure in the Australian art scene, ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 64 Celia Gullett Celia Gullett has developed a beautiful distinctive practice over several decades. Her abstract works explore colour, light and surface with what’s been described as, ‘remarkable sensitivity’. Her career has unfolded gradually, shaped by long periods of study, reflection and... life. A major turning point in Celia’s artistic development came in the mid to late 1990s when she began stu...