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 and its inhabitants into paintings and drawings to reveal their latent visual complexity, capturing moments of the sublime in the everyday. His signature use of motion blur serves as an extended metaphor for our contemporary experience of the world, offering fleeting fragments of observation which oscillate between realism and abstraction.
Charadia has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Australia and internationally. He won the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing in 2023, and has been a finalist in numerous prizes including the Sir John Sulman Prize (2020), Dobell Drawing Prize (2021, 2019), and National Works on Paper Award (2026). In 2021 he was awarded the inaugural South West Sydney Award at the Fisher's Ghost Art Award, in 2020 he was awarded People’s Choice at the Adelaide Perry Prize, and in 2018 he won 2nd place at the Belle ArtStart Prize. His works are held in the Presbyterian Ladies' College collection, National Art School collection and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, France, the UK and USA. He is represented by N.Smith Gallery.
