BIG AL

Big Al (b.1997) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist and architectural graduate who works from a small cabin on Wadandi Country, Western Australia.

Her works use digital and analog techniques such as painting, drawing and collage to blur the boundaries between the seen and unseen relationships in events, people and the cosmos, aiming to recalibrate human beings’ relationships to landscapes, forgotten rituals and objects. Through strange-making, comedic absurdity and an invitation to reconnect through curiosity, Al explores how human beings can re-entangle with the ecological amongst the daunting presence of the Chthulucene. She has pursued this creative practice, meeting and working with artists across Australia, Japan, South Korea and Italy since graduating from architecture school in 2021.

In addition to artmaking, installation and architecture work, her practice has recently evolved into the production of films, books and accessible publications to explore her views on creative processes and possible hybrid biodiverse ecologies.

Al’s work as an architectural graduate was awarded the Cohen Medal for the University of Notre Dame by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2022. The Forests Atlas, a book of her paintings edited by Daniel Jan Martin in collaboration with several other West Australian artists, was published in May 2023. In 2024, she worked as a part of the landscape design team Super Natural with LM2A architects for their submission Scales of Care for the Australian Government’s ‘Reimagining Where We Live’ Competition, where they were awarded first place. 

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In 2025, Al began her PhD at the School of Design, University of Western Australia. The working title of her doctoral project is 'Drawers are Worldmakers'. Al’s first solo book The Pigment Pictures is set to be published in 2025.

- Nez. Studio Assistant

"Nez (Pince Nez, Nezzy Star, Nezlé pronounced Nestle—) is a pooch adopted from the local shelter for the pure purpose of a needed friend when alone in the field. She later emerged into her destined role as artist’s assistant, dear friend and recently, security expert. Not many humans realise a dog can be both head of human resources and security simultaneously. Visitors are barked at, and birds are chased from outside the office for enhanced production.

We thank Nez for her contribution to the office environment."

Images of Big Al and Nez
by Harrison Jay Dee