BIO

Contemporary Brisbane-based Australian artist, Zoe Stuart, uses painting to question social constructions of linear biographical time. Stuart's paintings capture intimate scenes and social settings in Brisbane, blending realism with subtle abstraction to create compositions that are both familiar yet dreamlike. Stuart's exploration of non-linear time challenges traditional chronology, inviting contemplation of interconnected human experiences.

Zoe Stuart completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Studio Art, at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 2022. In 2018, she received the award for artistic excellence at the Creative Generation awards for her large-scale abstract painting, A Collective Subconscious. She was a finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Award and the Belau Portrait Prize in 2021, as well as a finalist in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize and the Brisbane Portrait Prize in 2022. Stuart has participated in several notable group exhibitions, including the Metro Arts Emerging Artists Showcase and the A2Z Anti-Division Group Exhibition in 2022, The Archive QACI Alumni Solo Exhibition in 2023, the opening exhibition of Studio G in April 2024, as well as the group exhibition Summer with Studio G in October 2024. Her work has been featured in several publications, including A Night at the Anti-Division Art Show by Faith Furnwald in Rant Magazine (2021), Brisbane Portrait Prize by Phill Brown in Q Magazine Courier Mail (2022), and Visualising Disrepair: Interview with Brisbane Artist Zoe Stuart in Climate Interior Design by Sophie Barford Dye (2025).

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