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Cassandra Lucas loves playing with colours and, in recent years, has
dedicated time to painting them on canvas. She studied design at university and worked her way up to corporate leadership roles through creative problem-solving, which she attributes to her design background. Cassandra lives in the Dandenong Ranges with her husband, 3-year-old son, and border collie, surrounded by the stunning nature that influences her work.

Her mother, an incredible artist herself, has been a strong influence on her
creative journey. While she only started putting brush to canvas in her 30s, she studied design at Monash University and now paints on weekends, often with music blasting. She never plans her work, it's her creative outlet where colours and composition come together as she paints. 'Next to Me' is inspired by the sunlight shining through the trees in the morning.

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Ebru Sezen is a Melbourne-based artist working in sculpture, travel and nature photography, and more recently, painting and drawing. She studied sculpture at Turgut Pura Foundation Sculpture Studio, where she honed her technique. Ebru has exhibited in various group shows and was a prize winner in The Small Works Art Prize 2025 at CNG Gallery. She is currently focused on wire-sculptures, paintings, and drawings inspired by murmuration of starlings. Her work addresses environmental issues, wildlife, animal rights, and the philosophical themes of creation and planetary healing. She continues her projects in her Melbourne home studio.

'Synchronise -5' is one of the works that Ebru recently created to express the wonder of starling murmuration and its symbolic associations, with the aim to link the natural world and art. In this painting she wanted to evoke notions of spontaneity, synchronicity and the organised unison of this amazing aerial dance, suggesting starlings as one whole entity bonded through movement.

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Fiona Brown is a mother of two boys, living in the beautiful outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. She works part-time in church communications, utilising a variety of media like photography, video, and visual art to engage with her community. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, Fiona moved to Melbourne at 18 to study Creative Arts at Melbourne University, majoring in Visual Art.

Art has always been her first love. However, after graduating from university her path veered in an unexpected direction – she worked as a Pastor for almost 15 years, until after her second child was born. Fiona returned to visual art in 2024 when both her boys were in Primary School.

While Fiona’s paintings are often inspired by the views of the Dandenong Ranges she encounters on her early morning walks, the colours and brushstrokes she uses to represent them shift with her changing mood and experiences of life. 'Softly Spoken' reflects a morning when her soul felt at peace and where 'all was well'. This piece reflects how life feels on it's gentle days.

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Gabi is a Melbourne-based freelance photographic retoucher, specialising in
commercial advertising. She has always been creative, excelling in art classes in her youth and discovering a passion for photography in her teenage years when she picked up her dad’s old camera for the first time. After studying Photography at RMIT, Gabi worked full time at a studio before becoming self-employed nearly six years ago. She currently lives in Edithvale with her
long-term boyfriend, and enjoys birdwatching, reading and painting in her spare time.

In 2025, Gabi felt disillusioned by the rise of AI, which began replacing
the skills she had spent years developing as a retoucher. Seeking a creative outlet that could not be AI generated, she joined an oil painting class in Bentleigh, where she developed a passion for creating detailed still life scenes from her own photographs. Gabi hopes to one day sell her original paintings and prints.

Through 'Lemon Bee' Gabi wanted to encompass a warm spring day, picnic rugs and buzzing bees. Lemons, cut for gin and tonics, sitting idle while friends chatter.

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Gayle Smith is a Melbourne
based oil painter who has been practicing and exhibiting for over a decade. Her art practice has evolved through many years of formal study and sustained studio work. Originally mentored in hyper-realism, Gayle explored a range of materials, approaches and subject matter, gradually moving towards a more expressive and personal response to place. While technical discipline remains central, her current practice allows greater freedom in colour, atmosphere, and compositional energy. 

Gayle is primarily inspired by
natural environments where light, movement and moments of quiet intensity play a central role, alongside her interest in European heritage and architecture, particularly where human presence and history intersect with the surrounding landscape.

Set in the grounds of a Villa on Lake Como, 'The Waiter' draws on Gayle’s fascination with European architecture and the quiet rhythms of everyday life within historic settings. The figure suggests anticipation rather than action, making the piece feel like a pause before celebration.

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Giulianna is an artist and interior designer who records experiences through her art, capturing landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Drawing underpins both her art and design practice, serving to express ideas and unwind. She works across watercolour, pastel, acrylic and ink wash. She loves journaling her travels in sketchbooks and getting lost in a tangle of trees and rocks. Her work reflects a poetic sensitivity to pattern and rhythm in nature, often inspiring thoughtful titles that express an emotional feeling.

In 2025, she was a finalist in our Unearthed Art prize for Study in
Yellow, an interior scene. She held a solo exhibition at Ladder Art Space
in 2020 and has received awards from several Melbourne art societies, including the Bayside Art Prize and Diamond Valley Art Society.

'Two Tree Tango' is inspired by a scene Giulianna recorded at Hanging Rock in Victoria, walking on a sunny day with her Dad. Giuliana enjoyed painting the strong directional lines and lyrical movement of light, tracing forms and replicating the feeling that struck her in the moment she saw the two trees intertwined.

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Gordon Carter began painting in the mid-2000s and became more deeply
involved in his practice after retiring around ten years ago. He is an active
member of the local Elgin Artists group, working regularly from their studio in
Elgin Place, Hawthorn. He is also a past President of the Ringwood Art Society and continues to contribute to the society’s ongoing operations.

A realistic oil painter, Gordon focuses on animals and still life, developing his skills through lessons with individual artists and group workshops. A few years ago, he began to explore print making, particularly linocuts, and greatly enjoyed the process. However, when COVID restrictions limited access to printing presses, he returned to painting and has recently begun exploring botanical art alongside his oil practice.

'I AM looking at you!' Is inspired by the mutual inquisitiveness of animals towards humans.

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Gracie Cameron Muller is a Melbourne-based artist who works with layered
acrylics to create captivating botanical still lifes. After studying Interior
Architecture, a shoulder injury two years ago led her to slow down and focus on injury rehabilitation. This ultimately led her back to painting; a creative skill that she is grateful for being able to continue. Inspired by Australian native flowers sourced from local farmers markets; she pairs vibrant blooms with coloured glass vessels found in op shops to create fascinating shadow studies.

Her passion began in high school, being selecteed for Top Arts in VCE. In
her early 20s she exhibited at the Canterbury Art Exhibition. She has since shown work at The Pink Gallery in Healesville and the Incognito Art Show in Sydney, and was recently featured in Yarra Magazine (Issue 64) as an emerging artist.

The inspiration behind 'Wooly
Banksias' is the main subject – Gracie’s favourite species Banksia
Bauerian in a crystal vase.

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Janelle White is a mostly self
taught artist, painting full time since she moved to the Central Coast in 2007. She works daily in her studio, trying to become the painter she wants to be. One of Janelle’s main subjects is vintage photographs, this became a source of inspiration in the early 2000s when she had her old family movies transferred to DVDs. She’s drawn to the mystery and unknown stories behind a found image, and in drawing on her own experiences she transports the viewer back to their cherished memories and hopes to inspire a longing for a life lived a little slower.

Committed to ongoing development, Janelle regularly attends art practice
workshops and a weekly life drawing group, as the human figure plays an
important role in her work. She has sold paintings through Bluethumb,
exhibitions and galleries, and continues to refine and grow her practice.

The inspiration behind 'We Thought
They’d Never End' is found vintage photos and memories of Janelle’s
childhood holidays to the coast.

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Jen Shewring is a full-time artist inspired by the trees and farmlands of Red Hill where she often walks on weekends. Jen’s life is busy with three children, two cats and a recent move to Hawthorn. She balances family life with a dedicated studio practice and a passion for environmental protection, reuse, and recycling. Jen’s family enjoys travelling, especially visiting their family in the UK where there are so many wonderful art museums.

Her artistic journey began in early childhood with a fascination with
drawing. It deepened in her twenties through painting classes and consistent
practice. What began as selling works to family and friends grew into a
committed career, sustained during the quiet evenings of early motherhood. She has exhibited in local school shows, group exhibitions, and at the Affordable Art Fair Melbourne.

Jen is currently developing a semi-abstract impressionist series exploring the shapes, shadows, and vibrant colours of Red Hill’s landscapes. 'Love Our Walks in the Forest' is a piece within this series, exploring the shapes formed between trees and their backgrounds.

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Katherine Spiller is a Queensland-based artist who studied Fine Arts and Art History at Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland, and later at
Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. She went on to manage art galleries in
the UK and New Zealand before moving to Sydney, where she worked with Sculpture by the Sea both there and in Perth.

Her practice explores the play of colour through layered marks that create
depth and movement, she has a particular affinity for romantic floral
compositions. Since recommencing her painting practice in 2020, she has built
strong momentum. In 2025 she sold over 150 works internationally and this year has been recognised as a Bluethumb Rising Star and an Artfinder ‘Ones to Watch’ and 2025 Bestseller.

'Fly Along' is inspired by flowers in flight, and the feelings of romance and spontaneity the visual evokes.

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Kelly Fontanarosa is an Adelaide-based artist who lives with her husband Daniel, their two children, Joey and Hazel, and their dog, Leroy. She is passionate about living a slow, family-centred lifestyle filled with crafts, baking, gardening, and creative pursuits. A lifelong creative, she has always sought meaningful outlets for self-expression.

Kelly has loved painting since she was a kid, but has sought out other creative pursuits in her lifetime such as celebration cake creation and clay
jewellery making. It was only when she started painting again that she felt
truly at home, she has been selling her artwork on and off for 7 years but has
only recently began pursuing it as a career. Trying out a range of different
styles, Kelly has found her signature to be painting ceramic pots with intricate details and filled with florals.

'Plum Picks' is Kelly’s first exploration of
different shapes and compositions within her signature style. The piece incorporates both trending colours and a couple of her favourites thrown in.

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Kim Stark has been painting consistently for two years now, following an epiphany at a waterfall in Kakadu. After 13 years running her own textile product business, she embraced painting as her primary creative focus, carrying forward her love of colour to express the joy, beauty, and messiness of life.

She works across abstract landscapes and still life “floral portraits”, enjoying the balance between intuitive, expressive abstraction and more analytical, realistic flower studies. Kim often grows her own flowers as subjects or picks ones growing in her surrounding neighbourhood. Passionate about building a sustainable art career, she has participated in several group exhibitions and is represented by a gallery in Byron Bay.

'Lone Banksia in Glass Bottle' is one of Kim’s highly thought out ‘floral portraits’, it features the Banksia, a confident and majestic flower as the main subject, but is also as much about the shadow created by it. This piece also presents the triumph of a glass vessel – something that Kim wanted to challenge herself in painting.

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Krystal Bradford is a Brisbane-based contemporary abstract artist whose practice explores identity, loss, resilience, and the human experience. Her work reflects on how relationships and place shape the self. Drawing on a childhood spent between the beaches, islands, and rainforest of Yeppoon, her paintings carry a strong sense of place.

She works with bold colour, simplified forms, and scale to create immersive
visionary experiences. Bradford holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and postgraduate
qualifications in Secondary Education, she has been teaching art for 20 years.
A finalist in The Next Big Thing at The Toowoomba Gallery in 2025, she now
exhibits widely and is represented in both  Brisbane and Sydney.

'Bit by Bit, Day by Day' is a work that emerged from the recent loss of Krystal’s father. It explores living with grief, and the balancing of strength and softness as a way to remain present. The shapes function as vessels of memory, gradually rebuilding a fragmented sense of life. Sorting through her father’s possessions, Krystal was struck by how they felt both full and empty simultaneously. These contradictions become symbols that through her art she tried to gather, piece together, and give time to. Building that new space to move forward.

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Luke Parry is a Melbourne-based portrait artist working in oils, drawn to the challenge of capturing more than just a likeness. Over several decades, he has dedicated himself to refining his style and technique, exploring drama, character, and the interplay of light and dark that brings his subjects to life. His work focuses on a limited number of paintings each year, allowing him to immerse deeply in each portrait. Luke seeks to create pieces that resonate with both strong likeness and emotional presence, revealing the identity and temperament of his subjects. ​ Inspired by the old masters yet guided by a contemporary sensibility, Luke’s work has been exhibited nationally, reflecting a dialogue between classical techniques and modern storytelling. His portraits are not just representations, they are intimate conversations, timeless and evocative.

Luke had his first solo exhibition last year in Northcote, he also offers commissioned portraits which seek to tell a story about the person depicted. He believes that a good portrait can reveal things about a person’s personality, occupation, hobbies,
beliefs and place in society that may not be immediately obvious.

The inspiration behind 'Self Portrait in My Favourite Blue Shirt' is the artist’s own self image but like his other works it seeks to convey a strong narrative and emotional presence. As he says ‘I am a middle aged man, yet have the sugar intake of a teenager. Not all heroes wear capes.’

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Meredith Simpson is a mixed media artist, primary school art teacher, and
mother whose work centres on collage, painting, and upcycled materials.
Incorporating reclaimed papers such as maps, vintage sheet music, and found
ephemera, each of her pieces carries traces of past lives and stories. She is
especially drawn to Australia’s native birds, seeing them as symbols of
resilience, freedom, and strength. For Meredith, art has been a sustaining force through difficult times, shaping a practice grounded in healing and renewal.

Lockdown reignited her commitment to making art; initially creating native animal drawings and pet portraits in pastel and watercolour before evolving into mixed media collage. Now exhibiting in local venues and pop-up spaces, Meredith balances her creative practice with teaching, where she champions creativity as a powerful,
connective language. She also designs annual Christmas cards to raise funds for Neuroblastoma Australia.

Inspired by Glen Dettmer’s barn owl photograph, ‘Ophelia II’ celebrates the ethereal beauty and elegance of owls. Meredith enjoys layering textures and hidden images, creating depth and mystery, inviting you to pause and discover the quiet, watchful presence of these remarkable birds.

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A former architect, Michelle Van Pelt recently moved to Tasmania, where the
landscape has provided both great inspiration and challenge. Her paintings
express a deep love for the world we live in and present a call to care for it.
While still dabbling in building design, Michelle devotes most of her time to
creating. She runs a small company creating watercolour maps of Tasmania, this originally began as a method for finding her way around a new place, but soon became a creative outlet that allowed her to explore her fascination with maps.

Painting has always been a part of Michelle's life. Her current work focuses on creating compositions of journeying through landscapes, while attempting to express the emotions a place can generate. 'Where Did the Time Go' is inspired by an afternoon Michelle spent at Cloudy Bay, Bruny Island – it reflects the mesmerising sound of the waves, and the strange mixture of rocks and grass along the shrubby hill coast.

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16 year old Mimi Callen finds creativity not only in images but also in words, stories, and science. At 13, she wrote and performed a slam poem on cultural diversity, winning the National Micropoetry Prize by Education Perfect. Having been painting for as long as she can remember, at age 7 she was commissioned by an interior designer to paint a hydrangea later featured in Vogue Living, and at 13, her portrait of her grandmother ('Popo') was shortlisted for the Young Archies and exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Mimi's love of literature and philosophy informs her art, which she sees as a fusion of emotion, intellect, and lived experience. Painting is Mimi’s favourite method of self expression, and she views each piece as a fusion of her experiences, interests, and hard work.

Painting detailed, realistic works exploring light, water, movement, and symbolism, Mimi challenges herself to create pieces that feel both alive and meaningful. ‘River of Becoming’ and koi fish as a subject were inspirational to Mimi not only as a symbol of her Chinese heritage but also as a reminder of her strength. Growing up, Mimi’s ‘Popo’ told her the story of the koi fish swimming upstream against the strong currents and reminded her to always keep striving even when things are difficult and to never give up. So while the koi may look fragile and beautiful, they are actually strong and resilient.

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Pete James is in his mid-50s and still works in the corporate world – though
he’d rather be at the beach or in the shed with paint instead of spreadsheets. As his children pursue their own careers, and with his wife’s encouragement, he has returned to the creative ambitions that once took a back seat to work and family life.

Re-engaged seriously with an art practice and creativity that has always sat in the background, Pete is gradually working toward building a sustainable career in art. Self-taught and shaped by persistence, his work reflects a renewed connection to the coast conveying relaxed, honest, and intentional energy. Through trial, error and persistence, Pete’s proving that pursuing a creative life later is not a midlife crisis, just better timing.

‘Dropping In Like It’s Hot #2’ is a
tongue-in-cheek nod to the Gidget movies of the 1960s, where surfers looked perfect in the foreground and the action behind them was wildly optimistic. Separate background film footage, and zero concern for realism—just pure surf fantasy. Pete loves how those films ignored the rules and went straight for fun. A confident, glamorous figure up front, with slightly ridiculous action unfolding in the background. It’s part surf culture, part Hollywood imagination. This piece leans into that charm. It’s not trying to be accurate—it’s celebrating a time when surfing on screen was more about attitude than technique. Big smiles, and a healthy disregard realism.

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Rachelle Holowko is a Melbourne based artist creating expressive, colourful paintings inspired by nature. Drawn to bold colour and layered mark-making, her work captures the rhythm and movement of florals and landscapes through an intuitive, non-literal approach. For Rachelle, painting is a daily practice that allows her to slow down, trust her instincts, and stay connected to what inspires her.

Rachelle's creative journey began in surface pattern design, where she worked digitally to produce repeat patterns for a range of applications. This foundation shaped her strong sense of colour, balance, and composition, one that stayed present as she was called back to a slower, more tactile process. Returning to painting was less a shift in direction and more a natural return to her true creative home.

‘Harmony’ was inspired by
Rachelle’s love of colour and loose, expressive florals. Rather than a specific flower, this piece captures the feeling of movement and energy that comes from layering colour and mark-making. Rachelle’s technique allows paintings to evolve naturally, trusting her instincts as she works. At heart, she creates art for everyday spaces: pieces that feel warm, approachable, and uplifting, bringing calm, energy, or joy.

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Based in Dudley, NSW, Rebekah Murray's art practice is grounded in careful observation of everyday objects and quiet moments, with her technique exploring how light and shadow create stillness and presence.

Art has always been part of Rebekah’s family history. Her mother studied at
the Julian Ashton Art School and her aunt at Newcastle Art School, though she herself never considered herself to be artistic until later in life. Rebekah started painting seriously at the age of 50, and painting has since become her absolute passion. Her art journey has
unfolded gradually through self directed learning, exploration and experimentation and later formal study.

Predominantly self-taught before completing a Fine Art degree at Curtin University in 2023, she has since
exhibited in Newcastle, received a Commended Award at the Newcastle Art Prize, and sold work through the Incognito Art Show.

Rebekah considers herself to be an emerging artist continuing to refine her voice and build confidence through experience. ‘An Ordinary grace’ was inspired by the simplicity of the scene and Rebekah’s view of how the light interacts within it.

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Sarah Ellis is an emerging mixed
media artist living and working on Darug Land in the Blue Mountains. For over fifteen years, drawing and painting have been a sustained part of her life,
developed alongside professional work, study and community engagement. Her
sense of place is central to her practice and personal identity, shaped by the landscape and family ties.

Working across acrylic, plaster, oil, and pencil, she creates layered, tactile surfaces that evoke time, weather, and wear. Her work reflects on everyday abundance – handmade goods, homegrown produce, and quiet rituals of making and sharing – offering nostalgic explorations of place and belonging. In 2025, Sarah began sharing her work publicly online, marking a shift toward greater visibility and dialogue.

‘Catch of the Day’ reflects the pause between labour and sustenance. It is a consideration of routine, sharing,
and the understated rituals that shape everyday life. The work plays with
textures and tones to build a surface that feels lived-in and softly aged. A
nostalgic reminder of the simple abundance that sustains us and the moments that make us feel at home.

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Growing up in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Sharni Montgomery spent her childhood immersed in the shorelines and waterways of Australia’s east coast, forming a deep connection to the ocean and its shifting light and movement. After moving away, she began painting as a way to reconnect with what she missed, translating her bond with nature into a distinct visual language.

Though creativity had always been part of her life, it was in 2017 that Sharni left university to pursue art professionally, chasing the possibility of a career grounded in her lifelong passion. Now a full-time artist, she has exhibited at major art fairs, taught workshops and shared her work through markets and retail spaces. In September 2025, she even opened her own gallery in the heart of the Northern Rivers region.

'Evening Tide' explores pathways to water as personal spaces of connection and belonging. Referencing eventide, it reflects on liminal places we return to instinctively. Captured after Cyclone Alfred in 2025, the work honours nature’s cycles of destruction and renewal, and the enduring dunes lovingly stabilised by Sharni’s grandparents when they planted the palms along the coast in the 1980s.

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Sharon Hunjas began her creative career in hairdressing before moving into Architectural Antiques after her children were born. Surrounded by classic old homes, she developed a deep appreciation for their character and imperfections, which continue to influence her work. Exploring urban and beachside streets, she draws inspiration from old shacks, breezeblock fences and the quiet beauty of everyday architecture.

Working from the sunroom of her Art Deco apartment, Sharon is constantly sketching and experimenting. What began as doodles evolved into digital prints sold through local retailers, before she committed fully to painting. She completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at Southbank TAFE in 2024 and continues to explore layering and mark making using acrylic, charcoal and graphite.

The inspiration behind 'Maple Lane Shack With Pelican' is a real place that Sharon renovated years ago. In a sleepy town on the northern NSW coast it has become one of her favourite places to spend time with family and friends.

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Tess Bartholomew is an abstract landscape painter known for her love of colour. With a background in Graphic and Spatial Design and years working in corporate events, her creative foundations extend beyond the canvas into interior styling and design. Time spent outdoors, hiking with her husband and their Golden Retriever provides both inspiration and reference material, reinforcing the deep connection between life and painting.

In 2020, a health scare prompted Tess to fully embrace her art practice as a form of healing, which has since evolved into her full-time career. Her debut year as a professional artist saw the release of 'Close To Home', a body of work inspired by places of personal significance. Exhibited at the Loreto Spring Art Fair, Tess was selected as 'Emerging Artist' of the year, with her collection becoming the highest selling body of work for the show to date. 

'Toward The Light' captures a fleeting moment of awe within the forest at Hay Flat (which has now been cleared) . Painted from memory and photographs, it freezes the instant when the sun poured through the trunks, transforming the forest floor into an abstract interplay of colour and pattern, part camouflage, part tapestry. This piece explores how we seek connection and belonging, blending into a tribe while maintaining our individuality, and how the sun becomes a unifying force for life.

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Zorica Purlija is a contemporary artist based on Gadigal land, working primarily in photography. Her practice explores attachment, care and connection, both in relationships and the landscapes she inhabits. Drawing on a background in graphic and digital media, she uses abstraction and collage to create a poetic, ethereal visual language.

In 2024, Zorica undertook a paid residency at YAPANG, Lake Macquarie, and in 2020 she completed a Master of Arts in Photo Media at UNSW Art & Design. Zorica's artistic career has spanned two decades, and in this time she has has been a finalist in several major awards including the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gosford Art Prize and HeadOn Portrait Prize. Zorica's work has exhibited internationally in New York, Zurich and Venice.

'Berlin Dancer #2' was created during Zorica’s trip to Berlin at the Charlottenburg Palace.