Australian Women Artists

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...

Australian Women Artists The Podcast Episode 65 Shay Docking Artists of Influence: Shay Docking (influencing Margaret Ackland, ep. 5) Welcome to another edition of AWA artists of influence. For those who’ve heard some of these podcasts, you’ll remember that the last question I ask is: Is there an Australian woman artist who has inspired or influenced you and if so, who and how? I’ve decided to explore a little furth...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 63 Camie Lyons Camie Lyons is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, and drawing. Her creative approach is deeply informed by her background as a dancer, translating the rhythm and fluid lines of human movement into physical forms. Working primarily with bronze and charcoal, she often sources inspiration from the Australian landscape, using natural materials like euc...

Australian Women Artists The Podcast Ep.61 Julz Beresford Julz Beresford is known for her amazing gestural depictions of rivers, bushland and alpine terrain. She has a very distinct, energetic approach to landscape painting which we’ll discuss. Her works showcase the movement and light of the worlds she grew up in... The Snowy Mountains and the Hawkesbury River. And I wanted to find out how she is able to bring those memories and sensations ...

Australian Women Artists The Podcast Ep. 59. Adriane Strampp Adriane’s is a fascinating journey. She was born in the United States and educated in the UK before settling in Australia. She brings the effect of that peripatetic life to her work. Her work is defined by its sensitivity to light, memory and place. Interiors soaked in soft light, distant landscapes, objects held in suspension. We talked about her fabulously eclectic group...

Australian Women Artists The Podcast Ep. 57. Sophie Perez Sophie Perez was born in Brighton, England. Her early love of art led to her formal academic training which culminated in her obtaining a Master of Arts in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London. How she ended up in Australia...is an interesting story. When she settled in the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, she embraced the unique landscape, and it informed her artistic practice. Her work was de...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 55 Prudence Flint Prudence Flint is one of Australia’s most compelling contemporary painters. For more than three decades, Prudence has been painting seemingly ordinary women in ordinary everyday interiors undertaking ordinary tasks. And the effect is extraordinary. The paintings are imbued with a stillness and the subjects are caught...almost mid thought. And that is quite captivating. Those (often) solitary figures captured in private moments a...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 53 Carly le Cerf Over the last decade, I think it would be fair to say that Carly le Cerf has become one of the most quietly compelling voices in contemporary Australian landscape painting. Her paintings exude atmosphere and exhibit a beautiful balance of abstraction and observation. Her approach to colour, atmosphere and, I guess, stillness is what makes Carly le Cerf’s paintings so special and the reason behind her co...