Jody Graham

My art 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.

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.

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.

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 and Lost Bear Gallery.