Bronwyn Aitken is an emerging visual artist based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar / Perth, Western Australia with an interdisciplinary practice that encompasses photography, printmaking, moving image, and creative writing.

Grounded in practice-led research, Aitken has developed a distinctive visual language that merges material experimentation with conceptual layering. Working across both traditional and alternative processes, she combines photographic techniques with cyanotype, lithography, and etching, while interlacing drawing, painting, video, and archival fragments to form richly textured narratives.

Aitken’s work offers a subversive lens on the Australian wilderness, uncovering its strange, elusive beauty as a site of tension and ambiguity. An antipodean gothic undercurrent, shaped by feminist inquiry, informs her dreamlike mise-en-scènes where the surreal and sublime converge. Through subtle abstraction and layered reimagining, Aitken opens resonant dialogues between light and shadow, texture and form, the visible and the veiled.

Alongside her artistic practice, Aitken has a broad background in the arts and cultural industries, having worked nationally and internationally across film and television, live performance, creative production, events, and arts administration. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Arts from Murdoch University (1999), and is soon returning to academia to pursue a Higher Degree by Research, focusing on contemporary feminist gothic approaches to colonial visual history, immersive technology, and modes of experience.

Since 2020, Aitken has exhibited widely, received recognition in major Western Australian art awards, and established a growing collector base. Highlights include winning the Photography Prize at the Bayswater Art Awards, selection as a semi-finalist in the CLIP international biennale, and finalist positions in the Minnawarra, Belmont, Melville, and Rockingham Art Prizes.

Aitken is a member of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), the Print Council of Australia (PCA), Perth Centre for Photography (PCP), and the Printmakers’ Association of Western Australia (PAWA).

Bronwyn lives and works on Noongar boodjar. She acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of this land, recognising their enduring connection to Country, culture, and the arts. She pays her deep respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.