About

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. One formative human experience stacked upon another, generation after generation, co-existing all at once.

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Zoe Stuart completed a 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 painting A Collective Subconscious.

In 2021, she was a finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Award and the Belau Portrait Prize. In 2022, she was a finalist in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize and the Brisbane Portrait Prize.

She participated in group exhibitions including the Metro Arts Emerging Artists Showcase and the A2Z Anti-Division Group Exhibition in 2022, the Archive Queensland Academies of Creative Industries Alumni Solo Exhibition in 2023, and multiple Studio G exhibitions in 2024. In 2025, she completed a two-month residency at Beelarong Community Farm and held a solo exhibition.

Her work is currently included in group exhibitions at The Burrow in West End and the Hemmant’s List Centre as part of the Hemmant’s List Emerging Art Program.

 

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 by Sophie Barford Dye in Climate Interior Design (2025).

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