Charmaine Pike

Lives & Works Maroota (Dharug)

Charmaine Pike approaches the rich tradition of Australian landscape with a unique language, both of gesture and of sentiment. As has always been the case with her work, the fundamentals of drawing are at its core, with an unerring understanding of tone and confidence of line permeating each painting. Her work has become distilled to a point where forms appear effortlessly carved out of space. 

Pike was the winner of the Kedumba Drawing Award (2022) and has been selected as a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize and the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and was a recipient of the Nock Art Foundation HK/China residency and the Enid Ng Artist Residency in Paris.