Belinda Sinclair is a Queensland based Visual Artist working in Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture, and Drawing.
Guided by an Animist world view, Sinclair’s images manifest through a responsive and embodied practice of journey and observance. Engaging the viewer in Magic and Place, Sinclair traverses the interaction between the human and the more than human to reveal visions of spirit at play in the world.
With a love of folklore and story, alongside a desire for connection and belonging, her mythopoetic works explore the complex and faceted life in the overlapping places between worlds; the hedgerows, the margins and the remnants.
Sinclair’s ongoing photogravure series commenced in 2017. Since that time she has travelled throughout Queensland, retracing the lands her German and Irish ancestors lived and worked, with a focus on spirit of place, personal gnosis, reconciliation and community. Responding to her experiences, her work has since evolved into a navigation of ways of being and belonging in the nebulous field. She is currently developing work for exhibitions in 2022/23 and beyond.
The artworks featured in Fair Folk, Apple Magic, Earthbound, Speaking in Dreams and Weatherlore developed over a five year period and were created on the lands of the Butchulla, Turrbal, Jagera, Gubbi Gubbi, Wakka Wakka and Wulli Wulli peoples. With gratitude and respect to past and present elders, their ancestors and descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country and who hold a deep abiding connection to the Land, Waters and Sky.
Selected Exhibitions 2009 – 2021
Geist/Land, Kingaroy Art Gallery, November 2022
Moon Country, Land St Gallery, Toowong, July 2022
Otherfolk, Vacant Assembly, Brisbane, September 2021
Downlands Art Show, Toowoomba, September 2021
Second Bloom, Plexus Gallery, Bib n Brace Gallery Brisbane, September 2021
Weatherlore, Land St Gallery, Toowong, Group Show, Brisbane, August 2021
Fragile States, Lasso Gallery, Toowoomba, August 2021
All The Bees are (not) dying, Kingaroy Art Gallery, May 2021
In situ, Plexus Gallery, April 2021
Boiling Point, Third Quarter, January 2020
Spectres in the Garden. Group show. First Coat Studios. Toowoomba. November 2019
Speaking in Dreams. In the thick of It. Group Show. The Third Quarter. Brisbane. October 2019
Earthbound. Solo Show. Poly Gone Cowboy. Brisbane. September - October 2019
Cross Gallery. Group Show. Bundaberg. August 2019
Shadowlands, Mary Poppins Festival, Gatakers Artspace. July 2019
Weatherlore. Solo Show. First Coat Studios, Toowoomba. 2018
Fable, Artist in Residence, Mary Poppins Festival, Gatakers Artspace. 2018
Remnants, Bib n Brace Collective. 2018
Queensland Poetry Festival, Judith Wright Centre. 2017
Moreton Regional Art Awards, Pine Rivers Gallery. 2017
Disrupt, Jugglers Art Space. 2016
Libris National Artist Book Awards, Mackay Art Space. 2016
Regional Marks, Print council of Australia 50th Anniversary Exhibition. Sunshine Coast University. 2016
Above and Below, Graydon Gallery, New Farm. 2016
Through a Glass Darkly, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane. 2015
Small Happenings, Brisbane Fringe Festival. 2015
New Surrealisms, BSG, Melbourne. 2015
Artists from MARS, Brisbane Powerhouse. 2015
I See a Darkness, Graydon Gallery, New Farm. 2014
Weather Witch Arise, Solo Show, Mars Gallery, Grid Art Space. Toowoomba. 2014
A Still Wind, Solo Show, Brisbane Square Library. 2014
New Surrealisms, BSG, Melbourne. 2014
Vegas Spray Road Trip, Cell Art Space, Cairns. 2014
Smoke and Mirrors, Lust for Life, Brisbane. 2013
Urban Art Show, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne. 2013
CPM National Print Awards, Tweed Regional Gallery. 2013
Wilson Art Awards, Northern Rivers. 2013
Foulbrood, Solo Show. Bleeding hearts Gallery, Brisbane. 2012
The Empty Set, White Canvas Gallery. 2011
BARI, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane. 2011
East Coasters, Bleeding Hearts Gallery. 2010
Hong Kong Graphic Arts Festival, Hong Kong. 2010
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. Finalist; Film and Sculpture. 2009
Libris Artist Book Awards, Mackay Art space. 2009