JEDDA DAISY CULLEY
b. 1984, AustraliaJedda-Daisy Culley is a Paris-based Australian artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the visceral, dark, and transformative aspects of the female experience. Spanning painting, textiles, sculpture, and video, her work tackles the intersections of motherhood, vulnerability, and sexuality. Through major solo exhibitions, including Unbodied at Ames Yavuz and Download Hats at Jerico Contemporary, and landmark survey exhibitions at institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, her practice challenges feminist archetypes, bodily autonomy, and the psychological landscape of expectation.
Culley’s work is rooted in the palettes of the Australian desert, creating psychoactive imagery that merges the human body with landscape. Drawing on anatomical studies, feminist texts, and psychoacoustics, her projects use heavy pigments and neon textiles to navigate the space between secrecy and exposure. This has defined her recent European debut at Sainte Anne Gallery (Parallel Parallel with Kym Ellery) and landmark installations like And your mother’s psychic spaghetti river.
Jedda-Daisy Culley’s achievements have been recognised through selection in numerous prestigious national awards, fellowships and prizes. She was selected as a Finalist in the 2025 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with her nominated piece, The beastliness of her soul shifting (2024). She was named a two-time Finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2022, 2021) and a Finalist in the 66th Blake Prize (2021), one of Australia’s most enduring prizes for exploring spirituality and religion in art. She was also announced as a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award (2021), reflecting a sustained career of critical inquiry.
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