Cassandra Dove is a Canberra artist who found her way back to art after a 20-year career as a clinical social worker. She finds inspiration in the landscape and is drawn to abstraction and mixed media.

Her recent work involves reconstructing her lived experience of traveling in Japan as guided by her memory of the colours, textures and feelings she experienced whilst there.

Her creative process is fuelled by a sense of curiosity and adventure and each year brings a new evolution of painting as she follows different paths within subject matter and style. Texture, gestural brushstrokes and mark-making can be seen throughout Cassandra’s work and are some of her favourite parts of the painting process.

Cassandra works from her studio at Gorman Arts Centre as a recipient of the Emerging Artist Residency Programme.

Awards/ Prizes

2023 Recipient of CAPO Grant Award; All Insure Emerging Artist Award.

2023 Finalist (x 2) ACT Historic Places Art Prize.

2023 Recipient Capital Arts Emerging Artist Residency Programme (Gorman Arts Centre)

2023 Finalist Petite Pieces Prize - Aspire Gallery (Brisbane).

2022 Recipient Mavis Hall Trust Grant - Canberra Art Workshops.

Solo Exhibitions

The Heartland (2023) Strathnairn Arts

Waku Offices Kingston ACT (2022)

Read more about Cassandra here.

“This work was a finalist in the ACT Historic Places Art Prize. Lanyon Homestead, with its lush green manicured grounds juxtaposed with the rough natural landscape, invokes feelings of beauty in extremes. The presence of fences, indicative of farming practices, lead to creating a boundary line with loaded meanings. ‘The Boundary’ seeks to interpret Lanyon’s current landscape with its patchwork history. Layers were used to create a sense of legacy, and textured brushstrokes, the rugged land. The use of abstracted form pays tribute to Sir Sidney Nolan and his affiliation with Lanyon.”
Cassandra Dove, 2024

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