Australian artist Gai Saunders is a painter and sculptor whose art practice has been shaped by stories, poetry, music, philosophical ideas and current affairs. Her education included the study of teaching, visual art and theatre. Gai lives on a rural property in a beautiful setting where she works in her home studio.

Her paintings depict a merging of real and imagined scenes while her sculptural works blur the boundaries of these two and three dimensional worlds. Material and process driven, she combines a range of media to express her ideas.

There is usually a narrative behind each piece;

“My art practice has always circled back to the natural world, in particular how elements in nature can symbolically illuminate an emotion or present as metaphors for the human condition.”

Since her first solo exhibition in 1993, Gai has been involved in many group exhibitions and other collaborative projects.She has been a finalist in a variety of art awards and her work can be found in many private collections.

Exhibitions

Solo

1993 Boating For Beginners,Bridge Gallery, Northbridge, W.A.

Group

2025 Linden Postcard Show,Linden New Art, Saint Kilda, Victoria, Australia.

2025 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, Piccadily, London, United Kingdom.

2025 Incognito Art Show, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

2021 Creek House Collective, Crooked Brook, Western Australia.

2020 The Christmas Shop, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia.

2019 Fine Art at Hale, Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

2019 Rottnest Foundation Art Exhibition ‘The Essence of Rottnest”, Holmes a Court Gallery, West Perth, Western Australia.

2018 Fine Art at Hale, Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

2017 Fine Art at Hale, Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

2016 Follies by the Ferguson Outdoor Sculpture Trail, Peppermint Lane Lodge, Wellington Mills, Western Australia.

2015 Fine Art at Hale, Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

2014 Fine Art at Hale, Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

2013 Fine Art at Hale, Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

1994 - 2013 Family Commitments.

1994 “Hope”, W.A. Hancock Family Breast Cancer Foundation (Inc.) Chairperson Mrs Gina Rinehart.

1994 New works by Gai Saunders and Fabienne Brant, Bridge Gallery, Northbridge, Western Australia.

1994 New Visions, Margaret River Galleries, Margaret River, Western Australia.

1993 1st Hale Art Exhibition (1st), Hale School, Wembley Downs, Western Australia.

1992 The Portrait Show, Bridge Gallery, Northbridge, Western Australia.

Awards

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2025 The Jon Villers Outback Art Prize Finalist, Waltzing Matilda Centre Outback Regional Gallery, Winton, Queensland.

2024 Waverly Woollahra Art School 9x5 Landscape Art Prize Finalist, Waverley Woollarhra Art School,138 Bondi Road, Bondi, New South Wales.

2024 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale art Award Finalist, Lethbridge, Gallery, Paddington, Queensland.

2021 York Botanic Art Prize, Finalist, Gallery 152, York, Western Australia.

2021 City of Melville Art Award, Finalist, Wireless Hill Museum and Gallery, Wireless Hill, Ardross, Western Australia.

2021 Little Things Art Prize, Finalist, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales.

2021 RSASA Portrait Prize Finalist, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts Inc., RSASA Gallery,Adelaide, South Australia.

2021 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award Finalist, Lethbridge, Gallery, Paddington, Queensland.

2019 Cossak Art Award Finalist, City of Karratha, W.A.

1996 Albany Art Prize Finalist, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, W.A.

1994 11th Sculpture Prize Exhibition Finalist, Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park, W.A.