Australian Women Artists

Australian Women Artists
 The podcast
Ep. 63 Camie Lyons
 
 Camie Lyons is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, and drawing. 
 Her creative approach is deeply informed by her background as a dancer, translating the rhythm and fluid lines of human movement into physical forms. Working primarily with bronze and charcoal, she often sources inspiration from the Australian landscape, using natural materials like eucalyptus branches to anchor her organic silhouettes. 
 Camie has received extensive academic training in Melbourne and Sydney, supplemented by international residencies in countries such as Sweden and Bulgaria. Her professional portfolio includes major commissions for prestigious brands like Tiffany & Co. and the Hilton Hotel, alongside numerous solo exhibitions across Australia and Asia. 
 Today, her work is held in prominent public and private collections globally, reflecting her status as a significant figure in the contemporary art world.
 We discussed the discipline of being a professional ballet dancer and her work as an artist and the fabulous influences of one over the other. How her work, despite being in the hard and heavy medium of bronze, is still very intuitive. Very little planning. I found that fascinating. We also talked about the random things that can happen in life and taking the opportunities they may present and the importance of risk and believing in your own process. 
 
To hear our conversation, head to the link in my bio. 
 
Camie (@camie.lyons) is represented by Australian Galleries (@australiangalleries) in Sydney and Melbourne
 
 
 
Images
1 CL
2 Girl is gone, 2025 bronze 98 x 85 x 51
3 Slow tumbling house 2025 bronze 60 x 54 x 49
4 Moving young to a new planet 2025 acrylic and pencil on linen
5 Apple and pear 2019 bronze 14 x 14 x 14

Australian Women Artists
 
The podcast
 
Ep. 62. Deborah Halpern OAM
 
Deborah Halpern is one of Australia’s most celebrated multi-disciplinary artists, renowned for her vibrant, whimsical public sculptures that have redefined Melbourne’s urban landscape. 
 
Rather than pursuing austere minimalism, which still dominated many sculpture departments, she embraced exuberance. Colour became central to her practice...and over a career spanning more than four decades, Deborah has explored a vast array of mediums, including sculpture, painting, pottery, glass blowing, and printmaking, though she is most famously identified with her monumental mosaic works... large-scale sculptures constructed from fibreglass and steel armatures, clad in hand-cut ceramic tiles.
 
It was a lovely languid conversation about her journey, her processes and, amongst other things, how her international residencies gave her exposure to international artists and had a huge impact on her and her work. 
 
It was also really interesting hearing about her seminal 10m sculpture ‘Angel’ which graced the outside of the National Gallery of Victoria...in particular the constant hurdles she faced in physically making it and finding the finance to finish it.  
 
She’s a big advocate for the benefit of art and public art in particular. Her work is meant to bring joy. To ‘elevate and escalate the art experience’, as she puts it.
 
 
To listen to the conversation, head to the link in my bio.
Deborah Halpern is represented by @arthousegallery, Sydney
@niagaragalleries, Melbourne 
See more of her works at
www.deborahhalpern.com
 
Images:
1 DH by Mia Mala McDonald
2 Family 2024 (all works are glass, steel, fibreglass) 345 x 220 x 88
3 Ophelia 1992 (the face of Melbourne)
4 Bodrig the Powerful Owl 2025 116 x 100 x 60
5 Angel 1988
6 Flying Fish 2025 50 x 56 x 30
7 Creature with Green Eyes and Tail 2026 59 x 39 x14
8 Winged Victory 2026 127 x 56 x 110

Australian Women Artists
 
The Podcast
 
Ep.61 Julz Beresford
 
 
Julz Beresford is known for her amazing gestural depictions of rivers, bushland and alpine terrain. 
 She has a very distinct, energetic approach to landscape painting which we’ll discuss. Her works showcase the movement and light of the worlds she grew up in... The Snowy Mountains and the Hawkesbury River. 
 And I wanted to find out how she is able to bring those memories and sensations to the studio. 
 Her quite rapid rise came after...a very unusual career hiatus in London which, it turns out, became very helpful to the way she works.

Julz is represented by Michael Reid Sydney (@michaelreidsydney)
And her upcoming exhibition Between Dust & Rain, with former guest @carlylecerf will be at Michael Reid Murrurundi (@murraart) from 1 - 31 May 2026
 
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Australian Women Artists
 The podcast
 Ep 60 Kiata Mason
 
 Kiata Mason’s work explores the quiet drama of domestic life. 
 Her paintings showcase rooms we all have and often just rush through them but, like all good painters, Kiata’s work causes us to pause. And reflect. 
 Her paintings often reference her own family history and the coastal home she now lives and works in.  
 Kiata’s formal training was at the National Art School in Sydney, where she undertook a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. She later built on this foundation with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Drawing, and then a Master of Fine Arts (Drawing), all at National Art School. 
 She’s been a finalist and semi-finalist in many major painting prizes including the Sulman, Doug Moran, Black Swan and Paddington art prizes and she has won the Muswellbrook Art prize for works on paper. 
 Across prizes, residencies and exhibitions, Kiata has held onto a deeply personal, drawing-led practice that honours the everyday without sentimentalising it.
 Our discussion was broad and covered a lot of areas of interest to all artists I reckon. She’s a deep thinker and a very talented and compassionate painter. 
 
Head to the link in my bio to have a listen to our conversation. 
 
 
@kiatamasonart is represented by @akbellingergallery and   @curatorialandco 
 
Images
1 KM
2 Breakfast with Dorris, 2019 122 x 91
3 Because of the Spring Flowers 2019 122 x 92
4 One of Gran’s Good Plates 2017 45.8 x 61
5 Surrounded by Art 2025 73 x 90
6 From the Gallery of Small Things exhibition Paintings and Ceramics, 2026

Australian Women Artists 
 The Podcast
 Ep. 59.  Adriane Strampp
 
 Adriane’s is a fascinating journey. She was born in the United States and educated in the UK before settling in Australia. 
 She brings the effect of that peripatetic life to her work. Her work is defined by its sensitivity to light, memory and place. Interiors soaked in soft light, distant landscapes, objects held in suspension. 
 We talked about her fabulously eclectic group of subjects she’s explored in her art including horses, dresses, landscapes, interiors, still lifes and the thread which weaves itself through all of them.
 She has held more than 30 solo exhibitions around Australia and internationally and has been selected as a finalist multiple times for a number of awards including the Sulman, Dobell, Calleen, Ravenswood, Len Fox and Adelaide Perry. 
 And alongside her studio practice, Adriane has also made a profound contribution as a teacher. She is also the Founder and Director of the Fitzroy Painting Studio which has had probably thousands of students through its doors. 
 
Head to the link in my bio to listen to our conversation. 
 
Adriane is represented by 
King Street Gallery on William (Sydney)
Jan Manton Gallery (Brisbane)
 
You can see some of her works there or on her website:
www.adrianestampp.com
 
 Images
 
1 AS by Hugh Stewart
2 The Wait (long days and longer nights) 2022, 152 x 152 
3 Lucy’s Light, 2022, 152 x 152
4 Celosia, 2025, 91 x 91
5 Silent World, 2025, 162 x 205
6 Paper Lamp, 2025, 91 x 91
7 Hydrangea, 2025, 30 x 30
8 Cornucopia (painting number 2), 1996, 122 x 153
9 Passage, 2019, 91 x 91