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After every road trip, when she was young, Lily Nicholson would draw a map. After returning to live on the South Coast of NSW, after many years up north, she recently came across these drawings and...
Read more“I am painting my way into being,” says Mary van de Wiel. Three years ago the brand strategist took a trip to Mexico and reconceived her lifelong doodling habit. She upsized it, and turned he...
Read moreIt was during Matthew Allen’s fourth year at art school that he started to make a shift with his work. “I felt it expressed what I wanted it to and could be linked to a history of making that had g...
Read moreZoe Tweedale’s fascination with animals and fantastical beasts have preoccupied her for many years. The Australian artist, who is based in Newcastle, is a relative newcomer to the arts scene - havi...
Read moreAfter deciding to study art as a mature-age student, Craig Waddell has never looked back. The Sydney-based artist graduated from the National Art School in 1999 and was granted the Pat Corrigan Tra...
Read moreWinning the Blake Prize’s John Coburn Emerging Artist Award marked a turning point in the way artist Carla Hananiah considered her practice. “Suddenly I was seeing my work hung alongside artists wh...
Read more“Out of bad comes good,” says Adriane Strampp. In 2011 the Melbourne-based artist got pneumonia and pleurisy, which meant that she wasn’t able to paint. Instead she turned to drawing and her first ...
Read more“I like the process of delving into a different world where I have control of what is dreamed up and made into a reality,” says Melbourne artist Heidi Yardley. “I’ve been fascinated with making pic...
Read more“Art is something that gives me pride like nothing else has,” says artist Matilda Julian. “It’s something that keeps on drawing me back in.” While she studied law at the University of Technology Sy...
Read moreIt was only after Amber Wallis went back to university to do some postgraduate study that she began painting and drawing in a consistent way. What followed was winning the Brett Whiteley Travelling...
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