Australian Women Artists

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 sit between abstraction and figuration and the figures, at first gla...

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...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 51 Nusra Latif Qureshi A conversation with Dr Rebecca Coates (MUMA) My podcast guest today is Dr Rebecca Coates, and we will be talking about one of Australia's most compelling contemporary artists, Nusra Latif Qureshi. Nusra Latif Qureshi bridges the ancient tradition of South Asian miniature painting with what has been described as, ‘urgent contemporary concerns about migration, identity, and cultural displacement.’&...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 50 Tracey Moffatt (A conversation with Amanda Love) To celebrate the new year AND the 50 th post for AWA (!!!) I wanted to start with a personal favourite artist - Tracey Moffatt. There’s an argument to say Tracey Moffatt is probably Australia’s most successful artist ever, both nationally and internationally. She is certainly one of the few Australian artists to have established a global market for her work. A filmmaker as well as photograp...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 49 Dr Bonita Ely Bonita Ely stands as one of Australia's most significant contemporary artists. She is a pioneering voice whose work has consistently challenged audiences to confront envir0nmentaI degradation and s0cio-poIiticaI realities through innovative conceptual art practices. She has a diverse practice that spans sculpture, installation, performance, video, and photography, establishing herself as a formidable force in both Australian and ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 48 Kaylene Whiskey (A conversation with Professor Dr Natalie King OAM) I’m excited to bring this episode to you. I'm talking to Professor Dr Natalie King OAM and we are discussing the incredible unique work of indigenous artist Kaylene Whiskey. Natalie King is an Australian curator, writer, editor and Professor of Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne. She has curated three national pavilions at the Venice Bienn...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 47 Robyn Stacey Robyn Stacey is one of Australia’s most established and respected photographers, exhibiting widely in Australia and internationally since the mid-1980s. As a photographer and installation artist she is celebrated for transforming ordinary spaces into cinematic worlds of light, history, and intimacy. Through large-scale photographs, camera obscura works (which we talk about in our conversation), and evocative still lifes, sh...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 46 Michaye Boulter Michaye is a painter whose evocative seascapes and atmospheric horizons capture the delicate balance between isolation and connection. She was born in Brisbane and at a very early age moved to Tasmania’s wild southern coastlines. Her father was a fisherman, and this meant Michaye’s life was sailing, fishing, and living close to water. These early experiences instilled in her a profound sensitivity to ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 45 Loribelle Spirovski Today it’s my privilege to be joined by Australian contemporary artist Loribelle Spirovski. Loribelle's passion for art began very early. She and her family moved to Australia from the Philippines when she was a young girl. This experience was very formative and continues to shape her practice. Her formal art education began at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, and after graduating, Loribelle quickly established herse...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 44 Rachael Sarra Rachael Sarra is a proud Goreng Goreng woman whose incredible work bridges fine art, design, business and education. You might know Rachael’s powerful visual language from a postage stamp that commemorated the 1967 Referendum, from murals lighting up Brisbane, or from collaborations with major brands like Kmart and Tourism Australia. Her artistic style is distinct and contemporary, characterised by vibrant, striking, fabulo...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 43 The Boyd Women Artists: The Hidden Line. A conversation with curator Sophie O’Brien For decades, the Boyd name has resonated through Australian art history — yet the creative lives of the Boyd women, the artists who worked in the shadows and around the edges of that celebrated dynasty, have too often been overlooked. At Bundan...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 42 Natasha Walsh Natasha Walsh doesn’t make art for the Archibald Portrait Prize. She is really interested in building her practice in a way that interests her. Nevertheless, in 2025, in her early 30s, she became an Archibald finalist for the 8th time! One of those finalist years (2018), coincided with her winning the Kilgour Prize, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and the Mosman Art Prize tying with ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 41 Evelyn Chapman - a conversation with Dr Anne Gerard-Austin Dr. Anne Gérard-Austin is the Curator of International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales and a significant contributor to the current exhibition at the AGNSW, Dangerously Modern, Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940. And we were discussing the Australian artist, Evelyn Chapman. By the time World War I ended in November 1918, Evelyn Chapman was alrea...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 40 Amber Wallis Amber Wallis has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary painting with canvases that blend abstraction and figuration, intimacy and intensity. Her art often emerges from deeply personal narratives. Amber holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Canberra School of Art and a Master of Visual Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts. The VCA years were formative: she pushed an already fluid practice toward a deliberately ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 39 Justine Kong Sing A conversation with Monique Watkins (AGNSW) A few of Justine Kong Sing's works are on display at the new exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Dangerously Modern, Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940. I had the privilege of sitting down with Monique Watkins to discuss this extraordinarily talented artist who has been largely overlooked in the Australian art canon. .....My special guest today on the podcast is curator Moni...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 38 Robyn Sweaney Robyn Sweaney is a contemporary artist who began exhibiting her work regularly from about 1992. Her early work included still-life compositions, landscapes, and portraiture. After relocating to northern New South Wales, she was inspired by her surrounds by painting houses. She could merge her philosophical interests with visual storytelling. And the paintings are beautifully reminiscent. But not i...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep. 37 Daphne Mayo and Vida Lahey - A conversation with Samantha Littley QAGOMA Samantha Littley is a distinguished Australian art curator who, for the last 6 years has been the Curator of Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. With a diverse background spanning major cultural institutions including the Australian War Memorial, National Gallery of Australia, and Australian National University, Samantha brings extensiv...