About the Artist

Summer Aldis is a multi-award winning, early-career Australian artist. After various attempts at university, ranging across science, business, art, and primary education- she finally decided to defer her studies in 2021 to give her lifelong passion for art a chance as a career path. In June of 2021, she won the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, effectively affirming her professional pivot towards the fine arts. Self-taught, she focuses on portrait and figurative work captured with graphite to explore personal musings and broader themes concerned with our human experience.

In 2023, Summer held her first solo show at Lethbridge Gallery, and later won the biennial $35,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize. Hers 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

2024 Finalist, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award

2023 Winner, Naked & Nude Art Award

2021 Winner, Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award

2020 Finalist, Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Old Soul, Lethbridge Gallery

2023 Thread of Silver, Lethbridge Gallery

Group Shows

2022 Artist Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery

2021 Anti-Division, A2Z Warehouse

2021 Home Artist Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery

2020 Within These Walls, Brisbane Street Art Festival

2020 Glimpse, Side Gallery