'Oil painting allows me to arrest a moment in time and capture a complexity of detail and form that are hidden within these images...'
Joshua Charadia is a Sydney-based artist who explores the nature of consciousness and perception. He translates his photographs of the built environment and its inhabitants into paintings and drawings to reveal their latent visual complexity, capturing moments of the sublime in the everyday. His characteristic use of motion blur serves as an extended metaphor for our contemporary experience of the world, offering fleeting fragments of observation which oscillate between realism and abstraction.
Charadia won the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing in 2023, and has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the Jacaranda Drawing Award (2022), Sulman Prize (2020) and Dobell Drawing Prize (2021, 2019). In 2021 he was awarded the Fisher's Ghost Art Award South West Sydney Award, in 2020 he was awarded People’s Choice at the Adelaide Perry Prize, and in 2018 won 2nd place at the Belle ArtStart Prize. His works are held in the National Art School collection and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, The United Kingdom, & USA.