Aleshia Lonsdale is a Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist, arts worker and independent curator who lives and works on Wiradjuri Country in Mudgee, NSW. Strong matriarchs influence her work as a form of methodical intergenerational cultural transmission which allows the audience to view the world through a First Nations lens.
Working primarily across installation, Lonsdale uses a combination of natural materials and found/discarded objects that address the 'every day' lived experiences and issues which impact her family and community across the past, present and future.
Through astute observation, the distillation of ideas, research, and experimentation, Lonsdale employs art as a way of highlighting issues which the audience might otherwise avoid or turn off from when hit with directly. She asks of her audience to open themselves up to other perspectives and to sit with being uncomfortable.
Lonsdale is an alumnus of the NGA Wesfarmers Indigenous Leadership Program (2021), the Australia Council for the Arts Custodianship Program (2021), and is a current participant in re(situate) - The Australia Council for the Arts Biennale Delegates Program (2022).
