About

https://linktr.ee/WatsonBroadfoot

Watson Broadfoot is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose paintings explore erosion, memory and environmental fragility through layered abstraction. Working with acrylic and mixed media, her practice investigates the traces left by weather, time and human presence through processes of layering, veiling, scraping and removal.

Broadfoot holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the University of Melbourne and has returned to sustained studio practice following a thirty-year career in international management consulting, governance and leadership roles. Her work has been selected for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and Mosman Art Prize, and she has been a finalist in the St Columba Art Prize, Mosman Rowers Art Prize and Northern Beaches Gallery Art Prize. She exhibits regularly throughout Australia.

Contact her via email at: watsonbroadfoot@gmail.com

Also see Watson Broadfoot's work at:

https://linktr.ee/WatsonBroadfoot

BlueThumb Art

Northern Beaches Gallery, Cromer, NSW

Instagram at Watsonbroadfootart

Artist Statement

My practice explores the traces left by weather, time and human presence. Through layered abstraction, I investigate processes of erosion, accumulation and change, creating works that sit between landscape, memory and material history.

Working with acrylic and mixed media, I build surfaces through repeated cycles of layering, veiling, scraping and removal. Earlier marks remain visible beneath subsequent layers, allowing the paintings to retain evidence of their own making.

While references to shoreline, horizon and landscape occasionally emerge, the work is less concerned with describing a specific place than with evoking the experience of place—its fragility, instability and persistence. Atmospheric fields, fractured surfaces and mineral-like textures become a means of exploring what is retained, what is lost and what continues to endure.

Ultimately, the work considers how time leaves its mark on landscapes, memory and the surfaces we inhabit.

Selected Exhibitions & Awards

2026
Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Finalist, St Columba Art Prize
Finalist, Mosman Rowers Art Prize
Land and Sea, Northern Beaches Gallery, NSW
Shared Ground, Mona Vale Creative Space, NSW
Affordable Art Fair, Sydney (will berepresented by Northern Beaches Gallery)

2025
Finalist, Feels Like Summer Art Prize, Northern Beaches Gallery, NSW
Finalist, Quadrant Gallery Exhibition, VIC
Small, FortyFive Downstairs, VIC
Space 2B, VIC

Collections
Private collections in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Education

  • Master of Contemporary Art, University of Melbourne
  • Postgraduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts
  • Diploma of Visual Arts, Victoria University
  • Ceramics, Northern Beaches TAFE
  • MBA, Monash University and B(Bus)