About the artist
Joshua Charadia is a Sydney-based artist who explores the nature of consciousness and perception. He translates his photographs of the built environment into paintings and drawings to reveal their latent visual complexity, capturing moments of the sublime in the everyday. His characteristic use of motion blur serves as an extended metaphor for our contemporary experience of the world, offering fleeting fragments of observation which move between realism and abstraction.
Charadia has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Australia and New Zealand. He has won several awards, including the 2023 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the inaugural South West Sydney Award at the 2021 Fisher's Ghost Art Award. He has also been a finalist in numerous prestigious prizes, including the Sir John Sulman Prize (2020), Dobell Drawing Prize (2021, 2019) and Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2023). His works are held in the Presbyterian Ladies' College collection, National Art School collection and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and USA. He is represented by N.Smith Gallery.
