Heather B. Swann - Shelton 2026

The 2026 APW Beverley Shelton Artist Fellowship was awarded to Heather B. Swann.

Heather B.Swann undertook a residency at Australian print Workshop in late 2025 and worked in collaboration with APW’s team of highly skilled printers to create a suite of nine exquisite original lithographs - these being her first time working with the medium of lithography.

Heather B. Swann is a Tasmanian artist. Her drawings, sculptures and paintings are often vectors of feeling, distillations of intense emotion. Her human, animal and architectural bodies are animated by an uncanny, almost surrealist sensibility, by an imaginative, very contemporary response to the European tradition and its underlying mythologies.

Heather’s work is collected in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art and Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Heather’s suite of lithographs were launched in an exhibition at the APW Gallery in March 2026.