Jody Graham - artist

.From my earliest days visiting scrap metal yards at my father’s factory in western Sydney – I have been inspired by the action of machinery and the big draftsman’s tables where they drew designs for machinery by hand. I loved the smell, noise and chaos of lines and shape in the piles of scape metal and the innovative design of new machines.

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My arts practice encompasses drawing, mixed media, sculpture, performance, and installation. Materiality and Mark Making are at the core of my work. I relentlessly explore new materials and investigate contemporary drawing techniques. To do this I build on and then move beyond conventional drawing processes in search of new methods and tools that connect drawing with the fundamental need to make symbolic marks.

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I have had sixteen solo exhibitions and exhibit frequently in important group exhibitions. I won the Adelaide Drawing Prize in 2022, the Open Greenway Art Prize in 2017 (and local prize again in 2020) and have been a finalist in many major art prizes, including the 66th Blake Prize, Sculptures at Scenic World and at the Muswellbrook, Paddington, and NSW Parliament’s Plein Air painting prizes.

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My work has been selected twice for the Kedumba Drawing Award Collection, and for the Jacaranda and Swan Hill Drawing Awards; and I have been a finalist in the Dobell, Rick Amor, and Tim Olsen drawing prizes.

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My work is held in the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, the Perry Drawing Collection and in Waverley and Blacktown City Council collections, at the Western Sydney Institute, in the Nepean Arts and Design Centre, and in private collections nationally and in the UK, USA, Dubai and New Zealand.

I am represented by Nanda/Hobbs, Lost Bear Gallery and Linton & Kay Gallery.

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SOLO EXHIBIRIONS

2025 Drawn from Memory, Lost Bear Gallery, Linton& Kay

2024 Wild Thing, Nanda/Hobbs Gallery

2023 Paris to Portland, Lost Bear Gallery

2023 VOILÀ, Nanda/Hobbs Gallery

2021 Getting Pinked, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba

2021 Fly like a Bird, Nanda/Hobbs Gallery

2021 Somewhere to Land, Nanda/Hobbs Gallery

2020 Home,.M Contemporary - Online exhibition

2019 Witness, Lost Bear Gallery Katoomba NSW

2019 Pee in a Wetsuit or Take a Long Hot Spa?

Chrissie Cotter Gallery Camperdown NSW

2018 After the Rain, M Contemporary Woollahra NSW

2018 Discarded, AD Space Paddington NSW

2018 Around the Block, Art Est Art School & Gallery Leichardt NSW

2017 Salvage, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba

2017 Scavenger, Stacks Projects Potts Point, NSW

2015 Sydney Drawn,Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba

2013 Urban Landscapes, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba

2011 Industrial Landscapes, Braemar Gallery, Springwood NSW

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In 2026 I will be teaching a Drawing + Painting retreat in Bali 

'Painting by the Sea in Bali' 

15-22 June   MORE

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Jody Graham - Multidisciplinary artist