sian hardy (she/her/they/them) is an emerging visual artist currently living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country.
my practice is predominantly grounded in painting and ceramics, as well as elements of drawing, textiles and photographic processes. i am interested in developing creative methodologies that enable iterative investigations into relationships with place and with Country. this includes immersive, place-based research, alongside studio-based explorations of materiality and imagery.
i am a settler on this continent, tracing my family history back to settler-colonisers from Britain and Ireland who arrived on unceded Aboriginal lands in the mid 19th century. i acknowledge and pay my respects to the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri, and the Pitjantjatjara peoples upon whose lands i have lived, worked and learned.
education
| 2020 - 2024 | bachelor of visual arts/bachelor of arts, australian national university |
| 2026 | honours in visual arts, australian national university supervisor: dr kate hill |
exhibition history
| 2024 | HoPE (Homies for the Planet Earth) group exhibition, tributary projects |
| 2023 | graduating exhibition, anu school of art and design |
| 2023 | friday on my wall, anu school of art and design |
| 2022 | anu art school students fight back!, gang gang cafe and bar (co-curator and contributor) |
| 2022 | finalist, drawing prize, anu school of art and design |
| 2022 | friday on my wall, anu school of art and design |
| 2021 | RUST pop-up gallery and fundraiser, canberra |
written works
| 2025 | "art-making and world-making against institutional erasure: a case study of the Shababeek Memorial Gallery" demos journal |
| 2024 | "walking", river theory magazine |