Belinda Street
Artist's Statement
Belinda Street is an Australian artist whose practice explores the dynamic intersection between abstraction and landscape, forging a deeply personal and emotive connection to place. Her large-scale canvases are defined by expressive gestures, intuitive colour, and layered compositions that evoke movement, memory, and the passage of time. Influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Street grounds emotion in the physical world, using painting as a way to bridge internal experience with external reality. Through her instinctual, immersive approach, she rejects rigid representation in favour of a more fluid, human expression—asserting the enduring power of painting as a form of resistance, reflection, and connection.
Biography
Street is the 2019 winner of the Paddington Art Prize, 2025 winner of the Newcastle Maritime Art Prize, twice winner of the Mosman Youth Art Prize, and has been a finalist in the 2025 Hadley’s Art Prize, the Gosford Art Prize, Calleen Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Fleurieu Food & Wine Art Prize, Warringah Art Prize and the MAP Portrait Prize. The artist has been awarded a full scholarship to the Julian Ashton Art School, and has attained a degree in Visual Arts at The University of Newcastle, with Honoursat The College of Fine Arts (UNSW).
