Opening event with introduction to theartists and conversation on their studio residency

Saturday 7th March 3.30 - 5.30pm 

Between Bodies is the first collaborationby Sylvia Wilson and Natalie Scholtz, two women of colour whose metaphysicalportraits navigate identity, belonging and Australianness.

Sylvia Wilson, a First Nations Martucurator and visual artist, navigates the inherited weight of culture, Country,and continuity shaped through both disconnection and reclamation.

Natalie Scholtz, a migrant child ofSouth African and Iranian parents, carries the legacies of diaspora,displacement, and cultural translation, continually negotiating what it meansto call this place home.

These two West Australian contemporary women painters came togetherfor a shared studio residency at cbOne Studios in January 2026. Alongside eachother they confronted and unravelled their unsettled ideas of belonging thoughtheir art practices.

Their works meet in the in-between: in bodies that hold layeredhistories, in cultures that are both learned and lived, and in identitiesforged across multiple worlds. Through paint, gesture, and figuration, theyassemble fragments of self and place, balancing the real and the imagined, thecelebratory and the uncertain.

Here, Australianness is not a fixed category but a spirited,shifting state—something constructed through portrait, story, and encounter.The exhibition becomes both a questioning and a celebration: of home, ofidentity, of how we become and unbecome Australian in contemporary times.

Between Bodies presents recent works byeach artist and new collaborative works where their portraits of each othershift into otherworldly visions.

We invite you to meet the artists and join the conversation as theydiscuss their work, the experience of collaborative studio residency and thecultural complexities they navigate.

In partnership with Martumili Artists.

This project is supported by CTIS Arts SNAP WA.

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