Nanda\Hobbs is pleased to announce that represented artist Loribelle Spirovski has been featured in Art Collector magazine's 2026 "Look Out For" section, recognising a select group of artists whose early career solo exhibitions, museum acquisitions and major awards position them as significant voices in contemporary art.
The feature follows an exceptional period of recognition for Spirovski, including winning the ANZ People's Choice Award at the 2025 Archibald Prize, where she was also a finalist. It acknowledges the breadth of her exhibition history across Australia, Europe and the United States, and highlights her forthcoming solo exhibition, Lux Aeterna, at Nanda\Hobbs.
Written by Robert Buratti, the profile explores the evolution of Spirovski's multidisciplinary painting practice, noting the psychologically charged portraiture for which she has become widely recognised. It also reflects on how living with thoracic outlet syndrome since 2020 led her to develop a distinctive finger-painting technique—an adaptation that has become a defining aspect of her artistic language.
Her upcoming exhibition, Lux Aeterna, examines the relationship between painting and machine-generated imagery. Beginning with prompts that reference art history and imagined identities, Spirovski translates these algorithm images into richly layered oil paintings by hand. The resulting works inhabit a space between memory and invention, questioning authorship, perception and what remains uniquely human in an age increasingly shaped by technology.
As Spirovski reflects in the feature:
"If these figures are born from algorithms, their ultimate realisation belongs to the hand. Through touch, intuition and the materiality of paint, it is an artistic wrestle—reaffirming, perhaps, something profoundly human: that even in an age increasingly shaped by machines, painting remains an expression of memory, imagination and our eternal desire to give form to dreams."
We congratulate Loribelle on this well-deserved recognition and thank Art Collector magazine for highlighting her practice among this year's artists to watch.
Loribelle Spirovski: Lux Aeterna will be on view at Nanda\Hobbs from 16 July – 1 August 2026.
