Joshua Butler

Chatterings, squawking, and swishes. That’s how I remember the place I used to play in the mountains. Our converted dairy farm in McDonald Valley with galas, kookaburras, and cicadas made life always full of noise.

My Sydney city epoch was the same but different, with white-smoked days at the Enmore loft studio with the honeyeaters, minor birds, and plane-bus-car noise.

Now I’ve returned to country, next to the Watagan mountains, to see the animals and plants I love first-hand. With them, I fill the wood’s tangled face with wax-full Luminance pencil marks to brighten and novelise the everyday nature that speaks to me, with Australian flora & fauna tapestries.

2018 – 2024 Bachelor of Arts with a major in Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University – North Ryde

2009 Direct Mail Creative School, adma (Australian Direct Marketing Association),

2007 News Limited AWARD School

2006 Diploma in Advertising, MACLEAY COLLEGE

2023 'Deck the Walls', Group Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery, Seaforth

2021 'Salon', Finalist Group Exhibition, Aarwun Gallery, Canberra

2020-2021 'Summer Annual Group Show ', Group Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery, Seaforth

2020 'OPEN', Group Exhibition, Trinity Hall Gallery, Millers Point

2020 'Still Life', Group Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery, Seaforth

2019 'Art Garden', Group Exhibition, Newtown Festival, Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Newtown

2018 'M16 Drawing Prize, Finalists Group Exhibition', M16 Gallery, Canberra

2018 'Storyfeast', Solo Exhibition, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney

2018 'Story', Group Exhibition, Balmain Watch House Gallery, Sydney

2014 'VITAL 2014', Group Exhibition, St Philips Church, Sydney