About
Summer Aldis is a self-taught, award-winning artist working in graphite. Her monochrome drawings of anonymous women in quiet domestic spaces explore themes of quiet contemplation, nostalgia, and absence. With faces turned away, her subjects invite contemplation of femininity, vulnerability, and the unseen stories that shape our inner worlds.
In 2023, Summer held her first solo show at Lethbridge Gallery, and later that year won the biennial $35,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize. Her's was the first drawing to win the award in its 34 years.
“Having spent time with all the entries in the flesh, I found myself continually lured back to Summer Aldis’s large-scale drawing Companion II.
Depicting a softly rendered body lying perfectly still, suspended, and draped in a wave of deftly rendered fabric, this rich and aesthetically alluring work of art while quiet, is extremely powerful.
Through the artist’s technically distilled and precise practice of drawing with graphite on paper, it explores thematic elements such as time, memory, symbology, light and dark, and reflects an artist whose attention to detail and precision is second to none.”
Awards
2025
Third Prize, Victoria Olt Drawing Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art PrizeFinalist, STILL National Still Life AwardPeople's Choice, Bundaburg Art PrizePacker's Prize, Bundaburg Art Prize2024
Finalist, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award2023
Winner, Naked & Nude Art Award2021
Winner, Lethbridge Small-Scale Art AwardSolo Exhibitions
2025 Old Soul, Lethbridge Gallery2023 Thread of Silver, Lethbridge GalleryGroup Shows
2025 The Figure, Lethbridge Gallery2022 Artist Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery2021 Anti-Division, A2Z Warehouse2021 Home Artist Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery2020 Within These Walls, Brisbane Street Art Festival2020 Glimpse, Side Gallery