Australian Women Artists

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 91 Helen Redmond Helen Redmond’s journey into art is, like many others, an indirect one. She grew up on a rural property in southern Queensland, trained in journalism and interior design, and then spent 25 years at Vogue Living as a stylist, Interiors Editor and Senior Editor, including many years as Melbourne Editor. And then, mid-career, she made the brave decision to leave publishing and enrol at the National Art School in ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 89 Louise Weaver Louise Weaver’s superb work asks us to look at the natural world...a little differently. She has spent much of her career exploring the relationship between nature, culture and our often-complicated attempts to represent the world around us. Working across sculpture, installation, textiles, painting and mixed media, Louise is perhaps best known for her extraordinary reimagining of animals and...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 87 Sally Ross Sally Ross is an intellectually captivating painter who works between hypnotic landscapes and psychological portraiture. Sally has spent over three decades developing a distinctive visual language defined by flattened, patterned surfaces, cool palettes, and a deep dialogue with art history. After eight formative years living in France, (amongst other things, running an artists’ squat in an aband...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 75 Lucy Culliton Lucy Culliton is a gem. It was such an enjoyable conversation – she always has interesting stories, and I was just lucky enough to be sitting on the other side of the table. It becomes quite apparent that Lucy finds a portrait in everything she looks at — a cactus spine, a prize rooster, a knitted doll, a greyhound asleep in the afternoon light. And that’s because she paints with an intimacy that seems to breat...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 73 Kirtika Kain Kirtika Kain was born in New Delhi, India and raised on Sydney's Northern Beaches, and is making some of the most viscerally powerful art in the country right now. Kirtika is a printmaker, a painter, and an alchemist. Her works often depict the overlooked. One of the extraordinary ways she does that is by taking materials such as pigments, wax, sindoor, human hair, charcoal, gold and tar and transforming them int...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 71 Julie Fragar Julie Fragar is one of the country's most compelling painters. For those who are familiar with that name, it could well be because she recently made headlines as the winner of the prestigious 2025 Archibald Prize. What is perhaps not as well known to the general public is that that win marked the 4th time she had been a finalist in that competition. For over two decades, Julie's practice has been described as p...

Australian Women Artists The Podcast Ep 69 Heidi Yardley Heidi Yardley is a Melbourne-born painter whose work occupies a significant space in contemporary Australian art — intimate, psychological, and immediately recognisable. ‘[Heidi] works with found images to create scenes of mysterious temporality. Often painted in faded hues, her artwork is suggestive of a period that could sit somewhere between the 1960’s and 70’s.’ She works with oil pai...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 67 Tracey Deep For over twenty years, Tracey Deep has been transforming forgotten remnants of the natural world—from dried botanicals to recycled organic and industrial materials—into captivating, tactile sculptures. Her art celebrates the regenerative power of the earth through the art of what’s been called intentional imperfection. Today her work spans gallery exhibitions, immersive installations and major pu...