3rd Prize Winner
Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025

Summer Aldis

Title:

“Old Soul”

Medium & Dimensions:

Graphite on paper, 90 x 90 cm

About the Artist

Summer Aldis is a self-taught, award-winning artist working in graphite. Her monochrome drawings of anonymous women in quiet domestic spaces explore themes of quiet contemplation, nostalgia, and absence. With faces turned away, her subjects invite contemplation of femininity, vulnerability, and the unseen stories that shape our inner worlds.

“Old Soul”: A woman cradles a lush bouquet of native flora. Tucked among the blooms, a snake coils quietly- its presence a subtle disruption. This tension between beauty and danger speaks to the complexity of inheritance- the tender and the painful, both shaping who we become. The figure doesn’t flinch; her hands remain open. There is acceptance here- a quiet embrace of the past, and all that is carried forward.