Australian Women Artists

Australian Women Artists  The podcast   Ep. 78 Evie Adasal Evie Adasal is an artist whose practice has evolved — from photography and film through to painting, from direct landscape observation toward a more conceptually layered engagement with the environment.   She brings an unusually layered visual intelligence to her painting practice. Her work is rooted in abstraction, drawn from the cultivat...

Australian Women Artists  The podcast   Ep 77 Dani McKenzie    Dani McKenzie’s story begins, unusually, not in an art school studio but in a bedroom — where, after a formative trip through Europe and a chance encounter with the work of Belgian painter Michaël Borremans, she spent six months teaching herself to paint.  That instinct and passion carried her into the National Art School in Sydney, wh...

Australian Women Artists   The podcast   Ep 76 Kate Shaw     Kate Shaw is an award-winning Australian artist who spends her time working and living between Melbourne and the US, having exhibited in Australia for over 20 years and internationally for over 10 years.   Through her luminous landscapes, Kate has created an artistic world that is quite breathtaking, but also quite unsettling. Over that...

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 aftern...

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...

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 pi...

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-hat...

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 i...

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 w...

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 somewh...

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 includin...

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 s...

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 h...

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...

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 dev...

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 ins...

Australian Women Artists   The podcast   Ep. 62. Deborah Halpern OAM   Deborah Halpern is one of Australia’s most celebrated multi-disciplinary artists, renowned for her vibrant, whimsical public sculptures that have redefined Melbourne’s urban landscape.    Rather than pursuing austere minimalism, which still dominated many sculpture departments, she embraced exuberance. Colour became central to...

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 ou...

Australian Women Artists  The podcast  Ep 60 Kiata Mason    Kiata Mason’s work explores the quiet drama of domestic life.   Her paintings showcase rooms we all have and often just rush through them but, like all good painters, Kiata’s work causes us to pause. And reflect.   Her paintings often reference her own family history and the coastal home she now lives and works in.    Kiata’s formal train...

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. ...

Australian Women Artists  The Podcast  Ep. 58 Amanda Penrose Hart    Amanda Penrose Hart is one of Australia’s most compelling contemporary interpreters of landscape.   In fact, judges at the Calleen Art Award recently described her as one of Australia’s most accomplished senior plein-air painters.   Amanda graduated with a Diploma of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art and then a Bachelor of...

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...

Australian Women Artists   The Podcast   Ep 56.  Caroline Walls   Today on the podcast I’m very excited to be joined by Melbourne based contemporary artist Caroline Walls.   Caroline’s work explores the emotional lives of women through really bold but pared-back forms, and it centres on the female body, intimacy and ‘the emotional texture of everyday life’. Her paintings, drawings and sculptures s...

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....