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Australian Women Artists

Australian women artists have been (and continue to be) underrepresented and undervalued in this country despite the stunning artistic works that have been produced since the mid nineteenth century.This podcast will shine a light on those artists and their spectacular art works. I"ll be talking to the artists themselves, both established and emerging, as well as experts on Australian women artists in history.

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Emily Ferretti

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/09/29

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...

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39:46

Sally Ross

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/09/22

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...

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32:26

Elizabeth Barnett

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/09/15

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...

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40:11

Nell

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/09/08

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...

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32:52

Chelsea Gustafsson

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/09/01

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...

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Nicole Kelly

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/08/25

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 83 Nicole Kelly Nicole Kelly is one of contemporary Australia’s most sensitive and intellectually rigorous painters, working beautifully across landscape, portraiture, and still life. She creates deeply evocative, expressive oil works that challenge the very mechanics of how we represent, and perhaps try to own, the Australian landscape. In fact, it would probably be fair to say that she is an artist who's spent nearly two dec...

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41:48

Kirsten Coelho

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/08/18

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 82 Kirsten Coelho Kirsten Coelho’s importance lies partly in how she actually expands the language of Australian ceramics. Kirsten is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ceramic artists, known for almost ethereal porcelain vessels that sit between the functional and the sculptural. Her works in porcelain are “creating functional forms and vessels of other-worldly perfection that fuse the formal with the abstract.” H...

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51:41

Jenna Lee

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/07/28

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 81 Jenna Lee Jenna Lee is an artist whose work invites us to slow down and reconsider the stories hidden within the words and objects we often take for granted. A Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and KarraJarri woman with Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Irish and Scottish heritage, Jenna has developed a remarkable practice that works across sculpture, installation, paper, photography and moving image. She transforms book...

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30:27

Tonee Messiah

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/07/21

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 80 Tonee Messiah I think it would be fair to say that Tonee Messiah’s work asks questions of you. It asks that you stand in front and notice how you feel. Her paintings have been described by her as living in the landscape of the mind. Tonee Messiah was born in Israel and spent her childhood moving between a kibbutz and coastal Australia, finally settling in Sydney at eleven. That experience of...

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30:32

Leah Thiessen

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/07/14

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 79 Leah Thiessen Leah Thiessen is a painter whose work is deeply shaped by place, memory, and the living energy of the landscape around her. Leah has spent close to two decades turning a very special place in Northern NSW into one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary Australian painting. But she didn't start there. She began her creative life in fashion design, before retraining through a fine arts diploma, and...

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35:04

Evie Adasal

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/07/07

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 cultivated landscapes of public gardens and urban green spaces, and built through a p...

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34:09

Dani McKenzie

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/06/30

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, where she completed both her undergraduate and Master of Fine Art degrees,...

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39:11

Kate Shaw

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/06/23

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 career, it would be fair to say she has fundamentally reinterpreted...

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33:51

Lucy Culliton

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/06/16

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...

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31:33

Rachel Milne

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/06/09

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 moved to the other side of the world — to Newcastle, New South...

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43:22

Kirtika Kain

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/06/02

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...

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37:47

Lily Mae Martin

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/05/26

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-hatching using fine liner ink pens, building up thousands upon thousands of tiny line...

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31:55

Julie Fragar

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/05/19

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...

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24:43

Lisa Bale

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/05/12

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 works are witty, surprising, and visually arresting takes on modern-...

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38:27

Heidi Yardley

Australian Women Artists ·

2026/05/05

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...

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