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 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 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 85 Nell Nell is one of Australia's most distinctive contemporary artists, working across painting, sculpture, performance, video and installation. She has spent three decades building a visual language shaped by rock 'n' roll, Buddhist philosophy and religious iconography. Smiley faces, lightning bolts, ghosts, tears and eggs recur throughout her art and help create works that have been described as playful, insightful and poe...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 84 Chelsea Gustafsson Chelsea Gustafsson is an artist whose work invites us to look closer at the quiet, often overlooked items of our daily lives—transforming mass-produced objects, ornaments, and domestic clutter into highly detailed, deeply metaphorical still lifes. Her paintings are incredibly beautiful, but they also carry a sharp undercurrent of modern anxiety, apathy, and ecological grief. From her...