Juanita McLauchlan is a Gamilaraay woman living on Wiradjuri country in Wagga Wagga. Juanita enjoys the thrill, complexity, texture, chaos and control of the printmaking medium. While her material and conceptual problem-solving processes of making are experimental, Juanita’s work is equally indebted to, and guided by her Indigenous heritage.
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Prizes and Awards
2024
Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Recipient, National Regional Arts Fellowship
Finalist, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize
Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize
Finalist, Grace Crossington Smith Art Award
Winner, National Contemporary Jewellery Award
2023
Finalist, Bicentenary Legislative Council Art Commission
Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize
Finalist, Banyule Award for Works on Paper
Finalist, National Capital Art Prize,
2022
Recipient, Windmill Trust Scholarship
Finalist, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize
Recipient, Regional Futures, Eastern Riverina Arts
2021
Excellence Award for the Inaugural WAMA Art Prize
Solo Exhibitions
2025
guuma-li / gather | Artspace, Sydney NSW | 23 January - 6 April, 2025
Yilaa Minyaminyabal Maaru-ma-lda-y (Soon Everything Will Be Healing) | Art Gallery of NSW | 5 July – 19 October 2025
2024
Standing at the Heart of Seven Generations, Parliament House Sydney
2023
gii mara-bula / Heart Hand-also', Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2025
2025 Blacktown City Art Prize | 11 January - 28 March 2025
Wynne Prize | Touring exhibition 28 September 2024 - 15 June 2025
2024
Encounter | Grace Crossington Smith Gallery, Abbotsleigh
shared:ground | Gallery Funaki
Mosman Art Prize | Mosman Art Gallery
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Guwayu: for all time Mudgee Arts Precinct
Held in Place, Otomys, Melbourne
Selected, CBD Gallery, Sydney
National Contemporary Jewellery Award | Griffith Regional Art Gallery
2023
Artists in Volatile Landscapes, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney NSW
2022
Light in Shadow: Christina Reid, Liz Perfect and Juanita McLauchlan, E3 art space, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Marking Time, GIGS Art Gallery, Wodonga
Something Big, GIGS Art gallery, Wodonga.
2020
Something to Say, E3 Art Space, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
OLD:NEW, Eastern Riverina Arts in conjunction with the Museum of Riverina.
Commissions and Acquisitions
2023
Guums-li/Gathe, Print acquisition by Banyule Council
2022
OLD:NEW drawings, Museum of Riverina, Wagga Wagga
Commission artwork for LIKE MIND, Mental Health Service, Wagga Wagga
Education
Advanced Diploma Visual Arts, TAFE Wagga Wagga
Diploma Visual Arts, TAFE Wagga Wagga
Certificate 4, ATSI Visual Arts, TAFE Wagga Wagga.