Overview

Between Bodies is the first collaboration by Sylvia Wilson and Natalie Scholtz, two women of colour whose metaphysical portraits navigate identity, belonging and Australianness.

Sylvia Wilson, a First Nations Martu curator and visual artist, navigates the inherited weight of culture, Country, and continuity shaped through both disconnection and reclamation.

Natalie Scholtz, a migrant child ofSouth African and Iranian parents, carries the legacies of diaspora, displacement, and cultural translation, continually negotiating what it means to call this place home.

These two West Australian contemporary women painters came together for a shared studio residency at cbOne Studios in January 2026. Alongside each other they confronted and unravelled their unsettled ideas of belonging through their art practices.

Their works meet in the in-between: in bodies that hold layered histories, in cultures that are both learned and lived, and in identities forged across multiple worlds. Through paint, gesture, and figuration, they assemble fragments of self and place, balancing the real and the imagined, the celebratory and the uncertain.

Here, Australianness is not a fixed category but a spirited, shifting state-something constructed through portrait, story, and encounter.The exhibition becomes both a questioning and a celebration: of home, ofidentity, of how we become and unbecome Australian in contemporary times.

 

Between Bodies presents recent works by each artist and new collaborative works where their portraits of each othershift into otherworldly visions.

In partnership with Martumili Artists.

 

This project is supported by CTIS Arts SNAP WA.

  
Works
  • Natalie Scholtz, B. 1981, 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    B. 1981, 2025
    Mixed medium on linen
    52 x 59 cm
  • Natalie Scholtz, Being In This Country , 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    Being In This Country , 2025
    Mixed medium on paper 
    86 x 67 cm
  • Natalie Scholtz, Gripping Onto What You Don’t Say, 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    Gripping Onto What You Don’t Say, 2025
    Mixed medium on linen
    66 x 58 cm
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  • Natalie Scholtz, My And I, 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    My And I, 2025
    Mixed medium on board 
    32 x 30 cm
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  • Natalie Scholtz, My Father And I, 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    My Father And I, 2025
    Mixed medium on board 
    30 x 30 cm
  • Natalie Scholtz, My Mother's Liver, 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    My Mother's Liver, 2025
    Mixed medium on canvas
    126 x 196 cm
  • Natalie Scholtz, Selves, 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    Selves, 2025
    Mixed medium on paper 
    86 x 67 cm
  • Natalie Scholtz, Silence , 2025
    Natalie Scholtz
    Silence , 2025
    Mixed medium on paper 
    86 x 67 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz, Between Bodies 01, 2026
    Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz
    Between Bodies 01, 2026
    Mixed media on Belle Arti Fabriano Paper Canvas
    150 x 112 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz, Between Bodies 02, 2026
    Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz
    Between Bodies 02, 2026
    Mixed media on Belle Arti Fabriano Paper Canvas
    151 x 109 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz, Between Bodies 04, 2026
    Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz
    Between Bodies 04, 2026
    Mixed media on Belle Arti Fabriano Paper Canvas
    151 x 110 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Auntie, 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Auntie, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 76 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Between Bodies 03, 2026
    Sylvia Wilson
    Between Bodies 03, 2026
    Mixed media on Belle Arti Fabriano Paper Canvas
    150 x 91 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Between Bodies 06, 2026
    Sylvia Wilson
    Between Bodies 06, 2026
    Mixed media on paper
    75 x 56 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Between Bodies 08, 2026
    Sylvia Wilson
    Between Bodies 08, 2026
    Mixed media on paper
    75 x 56 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl) , 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl) , 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    121 x 91 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl) , 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl) , 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    91 x 91 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    121 x 91 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    61 x 46 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    75 x 45.5 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    60 x 45.5 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    91 x 60 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    90 x 60 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    46 x 36 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Mum, The Boss, My Daughter and the Wanti (Woman, Girl), 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 75 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Two Worlds, 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Two Worlds, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 91 cm
  • Sylvia Wilson, Two Worlds, 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Two Worlds, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    74.5 x 35 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Vali Pill Wanti, 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Vali Pill Wanti, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    75 x 35 cm
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  • Sylvia Wilson, Wanti Yuu, 2025
    Sylvia Wilson
    Wanti Yuu, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    149 x 74.5 cm
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Installation Views