Alma Studholme is a multidisciplinary artist working

across ceramics, sculpture, installation, performance and video.

Her work draws on her scholarly background in philosophy and

religious studies.

She holds a doctoral degree in Arts and Social Sciences from the

University of Sydney, Australia, for her interdisciplinary research

in cognitive sciences, neuroscience, contemplative religious

traditions and art practice.

Recently she also completed a fine art doctoral specialisation in

ceramics at the National Art School in Sydney.

When working on video projects she regularly collaborates with

video artist and photographer Brett Studholme, and they exhibit 

as a collaborative duo A+B Studholme.

Selected Exhibitions, Projects & Awards

2025 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia

2025 Joint Exhibition (with Susanna Chen Chow) Reflected in Nature, The Shop Gallery, Glebe, Australia

2024 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Moving Waters: Artist Moving Image Programme, curated by A Sometimes Project, 

          19 October, Plymouth Arts Cinema, UK

2024 Finalist, 14th GreenWay Art Prize, White Bay Power Station, Sydney, Australia

          20 -22 September: GreenWay Art Prize Exhibition & Power Up Festival

2024 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia

2024 Video Art Screening Opposite Flow, 2nd edition (with Brett Studholme), IFOD, Izmir, Turkiye

2024 Selected (A+B Studholme), Solo Exhibition North Sydney Vignettes, Ridge Street Window Gallery,

          Arts & Culture North Sydney, Australia

2023 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Opposite Flow Screening Programme, International Short Film, Video and

          Photography Symposium, Kadiköy Baris Manco Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkiye

2023 Invited, Group Exhibition Belonging - In celebration of diversity and social inclusion, Willoughby City Library,

         Sydney, Australia

2023 Invited, Civic Park Inside Outside Sculpture, Ted Mack Civic Park, North Sydney, Australia

2023 Editor of Pamela Leung's Film Why does God allow these things happen to us? Exhibition Entwined Within,

          Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Australia

2023/2024 Recipient of North Sydney Creative Grant (with Brett Studholme), Arts & Culture North Sydney, Australia

2023 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia

2023 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, Australia

2022 Recipient of N.E. Pethebridge Award, National Art School, Sydney, Australia

2022 Group Exhibition The Postgrad Show, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2022 Invited, Group Exhibition Le Petit Salon de Sculpture, Q Station, Manly, Sydney, Australia

2022 Solo Exhibition Lunar Landscapes of a Poetic Mind, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia

2022 Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia

2022 Editor of Pamela Leung's Film Red Line Story, Exhibition Parallel Wanderings 双行游

         Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Willoughby City Council, The Concourse Urban Screen + Art Space on

         The Concourse, Sydney, Australia

2021 Selected, Group Exhibition Contrasts, Millepiani, Rome, Italy

2021 Invited, Group Exhibition Project 2060: Homeward Bound, Arts & Culture North Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2020 Joint Exhibition (A+B Studholme with Terhi Hakola) Tears of Things, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, Australia 

2020 Invited (with Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition Retracing, Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney, Australia

2020 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Onirica Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy

2020 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition The Sensation of Home, FaB Festival, Bath, UK

2020 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition BEAUTY/?, K.L.8 Exhibition Space, Brussels, Belgium

2020 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Artists of Mosman: 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2020 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, Australia

2019 Finalist, Blacktown City Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia

2019 Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia

2019 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), The Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial: The Tenacious Realm, Sydney, Australia

2019 Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia

2018 Invited, Group Exhibition The Red Project, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia

2017 Solo Exhibition A Year at the Coal Loader, Coal Loader Art Studio, Sydney, Australia

2017 Group Exhibition Share House, Byron School of Art Project Space, Mullumbimby, Australia

2017 Solo Exhibition Self-Portrait as a Landscape, TWT Creative Precinct, Sydney, Australia

2017 Finalist, Hunters Hill Art Exhibition, Sydney, Australia

2017 Finalist, Artists of Mosman: 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2017 Finalist, Harbour Sculpture, Indoor Selection, Sydney, Australia

2017 Finalist, Harbour Sculpture, Outdoor Selection, Sydney, Australia

2017 Narrative & Voice in Claudia Núñez-Pacheco's Installation Storytelling the Felt-sense: SOUL, Sydney, Australia

2017 Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia

2016 Finalist, Mandorla Art Award, Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth, Australia

2016 Finalist, Hidden Sculpture Walk, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia

2016 Finalist, Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture, Sydney, Australia

2016 Solo Exhibition Accreation II: Ontological Transmutations, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2015 Finalist, Verge Awards, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2015 Group Exhibition Accreation: Un-becoming and the Surface as Sight, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2012 Group Exhibition All Fired Up, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia

2012 Best Student Award - North Coast Technical College, Lismore, Australia

2012 Invited, Group Exhibition Tandem 10, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia

2012 Art Acquisitive Exhibition, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia

2011 Group Exhibition Ouvre - A Substantial Body of Work, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia

2011 Best in Show Award (with Belinda Simone) - Ouvre, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia

2010 Group Exhibition Works in Ceramics, Space Gallery, Lismore. Australia

Lecturing, Residencies, Conferences & Workshops

2024 - present Ceramics Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney, Australia

2023 - present Ceramics Tutor, Redlands Senior Campus, Cremorne, Sydney, Australia

2023 Selected, Art Residency (with Brett Studholme), Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, Australia, Bundanon Website Link

2023 Commissioned Art Mentorship for 2023 Hexad Project, Artist in Residence Program, Bradfield Senior College,

          St Leonards, Sydney, Australia

2017 Extended Art Residency, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia

2016 Selected, Art Residency, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia

2016 Speaker, Postgraduate History Conference Historical Identities, University of Sydney, Australia

2015 Selected, Art Residency, Brand X, TWT Visual Arts Studio, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia

2015 Speaker, 2nd Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, Birkbeck College, London, UK

Writing & Publications

2022 Wonderings of a Poetic Mind: Tracing Patterns of Sense, Non-sense and Meaning in an Art Practice Informed

          by Cognitive Sciences and Affect Theories, DFA exegesis, National Art School

2022 Lunar Reflections, Catalogue Essay, p. 5, Pamela Leung: Longing for Home, 6 April - 14 May, Galley Lane Cove 

2022 Oceans in a tea cup, Garland Magazine, Issue G26, Objecthood: Why we still need things, 1 March

2022 Pamela Leung's Red Line Story, Garland Magazine, Loop, 1 February

2019 Ceramics: Art + Perception/Technical, Issue 110, pp. 74-77, Geng Xue's Sensuous Worlds in Porcelain and Clay

2018 Being Fragmented and Being Whole: Explorations in Cognitive Sciences, Religious Contemplative Traditions,

         and Art Practice, PhD dissertation, Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney

2018 Aesthetic Experience in Art-Practice: a Pre-Linguistic Felt Quality in A. Scarinzi (ed.),

        Recasting Aesthetic Experience: Emotions and the 'Continuity Principle', Göttingen, Cuvillier, pp. 155-195

2017 Ceramics: Art + Perception/Technical, Issue 105, pp. 18-23, Homo Ludens: Michael Hallam

2017 The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 37-41, A Circle: Being Fragmented and Being Whole

2016 The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 10-13, A Permanent Mark: Remembering Michael Hallam

2014 Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 94, pp. 84-87, Axis of Passion - Creative World of Amanda Bromfield

2013 Ceramics: Technical No. 36, pp. 32-35, Sacred Art of Lena Logan

Education

2023 Doctor of Fine Art (Ceramics), National Art School, Sydney, Australia

2020 PhD in Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia 

2012 Diploma of Ceramics, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia

2011 Certificate IV in Ceramics, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia

2010 Certificate III in Ceramics, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia

2008 Master's Degree in the Interdisciplinary Field of Humanistic Sciences, University of Zagreb,

          Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy,  Croatia

2001 Bachelor's Degree (Hons) in Philosophy & Religious Studies, University of Zagreb,

          Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy, Croatia

Acquisitions

2024 North Sydney Council

2024 North Sydney Heritage Centre

Salt Mandala  Performance, photo by Brett Studholme

Salt Mandala  Performance, photo by Brett Studholme