Helen Brancastisano, View from Aloft #2, 2025. Image courtesy of the Artist.
What: Artist Talk with Shorelines artists Helen Brancatisano and Miriam Cullen
When: Sunday 3 May, 2026, 2 - 3pm
Where: M16 Artspace Foyer, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith
Cost: Free
Walk and Talk with the Artists of Shorelines
Take a walk through M16’s exhibition, Shorelines, with Helen Brancatisano and Miriam Cullen, two of the exhibiting artists. They will talk about how the three artists spend time in the landscape, their individual ways of seeing and working translating into the variety of works in the exhibition. Works include monotypes, artist books, 3D paper works and ink drawings. They will discuss the works and answer questions about their inspiration, methods and materials.
About the Artists
Helen Brancatisano is a Sydney artist whose work springs from observing the way people navigate their lives through their unique circumstances of place and time. Drawing on historical, literary and personal narratives she explores these themes through drawing, painting and monotype printmaking. The freedom and unpredictability of the monotype is often the springboard for other ideas and guides her processes.
She is also keenly aware of how birds enter our consciousness and lead us to consider the broader world around us.
Spending time on the Central Coast of NSW, the rocky shorelines and the sounds of birdlife drew her once more to consider our connection to their world. This reflection forms the basis of her work for the group exhibition Shorelines, consisting of monotypes and ink drawings.
As well as her five solo exhibitions, Helen has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the Lethbridge Small Works Prize, Gallipoli Art Prize, the Blake Prize Director’s Cut, the North Sydney Art Prize, Gosford Art Prize, the KAAF Art Prize and the Waverley Art Prize. She has won several prizes in drawing and printmaking.
Miriam Cullen is a linocut printmaker and watercolour painter, interested in the ways we shape our identity over time. Her hand-coloured linocut prints, watercolour paintings, painted relief blocks and three-dimensional paper sculptures examine the ways we are changed by contact with the natural world and our significant relationships. These interactions inform and transform how we see ourselves.
She teaches literacy, visual arts and gardening to adults and enjoys playing with language and with the plant and animal life around her. Her paintings and prints are held in galleries and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
As a coast dweller, Miriam does much of her art-thinking while swimming. Building a body of work for the "Shorelines" exhibition has enabled her to reflect on what she loves about the sea and sky. In these works, Miriam has moved away from her customary detailed linocuts and used simplified shapes to capture the pared back coastal space and to revisit snippets from childhood beach holidays in vivid colour.
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