Aldona Kmiec
Aldona Kmieć | |
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| Born | |
| Education | London Metropolitan University |
| Known for | Photography |
| Website | https://aldonakmiec.com |
Aldona Kmieć is an Australian artist based in Melbourne working in Photography and Installation Art. Her works are held in public collection of State Library of Victoria, M.A.D.E. Museum of Democracy at Eureka in Ballarat, Ballarat Arts Foundation and private collections.
Her arts practice spans over 20 years and encompasses digital and analogue photography, printmaking techniques such as cyanotype, and archival approaches. Kmieć creates works that explore themes of belonging, memory, and displacement, merging conceptual and documentary methods to examine the complexities of human connection.
Aldona earned an Advanced Diploma in Photography from London Metropolitan University in 2008. After migrating to Australia in 2009, she established her photography studio in Ballarat and later in Melbourne.
Her creative practice has been supported through grants and residencies, including the City of Melbourne Arts Grant (2025), as well as opportunities with Gasworks Arts Park and Trocadero Projects, where she received mentorship and engaged in focused studio residencies. Recent solo exhibitions include Hills Hoist (2025), Veil (2024), Neighbourhood Watch (2024), and Winterbloom (2021), alongside documentary commissions for the State Library Victoria (2021–2022). Her earlier projects include In the Process of Healing (2017), We R You – a participatory street art initiative in Ballarat (2013), and Under the Floorboards artist residency.
Aldona’s work is represented in collections both nationally and internationally. She has been a recent finalist in awards including the Omnia Art Prize (2025), Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (2024), and the Bowness Photography Prize Finalists (2014), among others, and was long-listed for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (London UK, 2024).
She is the newest studio artist in residence at Montsalvat Arts Centre in Eltham.
Bibliography
- Kmiec, Aldona (2012). Moja emigracja [My Migration]. Buccan, Queensland: Favoryta. ISBN 978-0-9871769-4-3. OCLC 802294262.