Kylie Stevens - artwork and creative meandering.

10/04/2026

Thank you Flying ArtsFlying Arts for the opportunity and to Grant Quinn for the photo and story.

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A big thank you to Grant Quinn and Local Ipswich News for featuring the inaugural Members' Exhibition Opening.

The Exhibition included four Ipswich artists: Kylie Stevens, Glen Smith, Andrea Baumert-Howard and Neil Moorhead - a great acknowledgment of Members and celebration of the Flying Arts community.

To become a Member, visit the website: https://www.flyingarts.org.au/membership/accredited-membership/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=membership

16/02/2026

My work is part of the inaugural Flying Arts Members' exhibition in Fortitude Valley and they used my image for the invitation! If your in the Valley go and check out all of the amazing work they have on display in their new gallery space.

We invite you to join us at the inaugural Flying Arts Members' Exhibition Opening at our new gallery space in Festival House.

Details
Date: Thursday 19 February 2026
Time: 4:45pm for 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Flying Arts Alliance
381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

This is a fantastic way to see the talent of our Members and connect with the Flying Arts community.

We look forwarding to welcoming you. Please register here: https://www.flyingarts.org.au/events/members-exhibition-opening/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=programs

The Exhibition will run from 2-22 February.

Image Detail: Kylie Stevens, Booroongapah, Birthplace of Rivers

11/11/2025

I was honoured to be commissioned to create this work for the palliative care ward at the new Ripley hospital. I hope that it offers patients, visitors and staff moments of peace and a way to connect with the outside world.

Thank you to Kathryn Nielsen of By Kat N for the beautiful photographs of me with my work, it was much more challenging this time with the paintings under glass but they have turned out amazing as always.

Kylie Stevens
Born 1974, Brisbane, Australia

By Bu’ndamba Creek
2025
Bu’ndamba Creek water, ochre, copper leaf, charcoal, and acrylic on canvas

Kylie Stevens celebrates waterways in her artwork in hopes of enchanting the viewer into a deeper connection with and reverence for their significance in the environment.

By Bu’ndamba Creek (Bundamba Creek) depicts the waterways of the local region, with a “you are here” symbol to provide orientation and connection to place.

Created using water collected from Bu’ndamba Creek and locally sourced ochre, combined with acrylic paint, charcoal, and adorned with copper leaf, this painting holds within it the physical essence of the place it represents.

The copper leaf depiction of the river weaves through each panel, symbolising the movement of energy through the landscape
The painting illustrates how this waterway flows into Urarra (the Bremer River) and then continues to Maiwar (the Brisbane River), representing the natural and cultural connections of these significant waterways.

Through this work, Kylie hopes to offer a quiet space for reflection, belonging, and peace, a gentle connection to the landscape beyond these walls, something familiar, grounding, and serene.

09/11/2025

It is always wonderful to be a part of the Ipswich Art Awards and see what everyone has been creating! My work this year is called Booroongapah’s Watersheds.

Booroongapah’s Watersheds honours Flinders Peak, birthplace of the waters flowing to Urarra (the Bremer River) and Dugulumba (the Logan River). Water from both rivers and locally gathered ochres are incorporated into the paint embedding into the work an essence of place.
Copper leaf traces the mountain streams as living veins of energy born from the mountain, these steams will converge to form creeks that flow to rivers that will meet again in Moreton Bay.

Booroongapah’s Watersheds
91x91cm
Urarra and Dugulumba river water, ochre, copper leaf, charcoal and acrylic on canvas.
2025

On display and available for sale at The Ipswich Art Awards, 1 Nicholas Street Ipswich until the 15th of November.

10/10/2025

My bad news could be your good news... I just found out I am not a finalist in this years Queensland Regional Art Awards, while I'm sad that my work didn't catch the judges eye this year, it does mean that this one is now available for sale!

I really love this piece and the special place it depicts. I was first inspired to look at painting Booroongapah (Flinders Peak) after a conversation with Uncle Kevin Anderson, a local Ugarapul elder. He told me to look for the mountains distinct frog shaped silhouette on the horizon, he told me that the frog and this mountain hold special significance to the custodians of this land.

There is still time to vote of it in peoples choice, there are so many amazing works entered this year, check them all out! https://flyingarts.org.au/qraa-2025-peoples-choice-award/

Booroongapah, Birthplace of Rivers, a place where rain becomes streams whose momentum creates creeks that join rivers in sculpting paths through the land, meandering until the waters meet again in Quandamooka (Moreton Bay).

This work celebrates the majesty of Booroongapah (Flinders Peak), the mountain whose watershed gives rise to Urarra (the Bremer River) and Dugulumba (the Logan River). Its distinctive, frog-like silhouette, visible on the horizon from many vantage points across South East Queensland, offering a familiar and comforting presence.

Water gathered from Urarra and Dugulumba is mixed into my paint, along with locally collected ochres, embedding an essence of place within the work. Copper leaf maps the mountain’s streams as luminous veins, highlighting the momentum they gather as they converge and carve the landscape.

I celebrate waterways in my artwork in hopes of enchanting the viewer into a deeper connection with and reverence for their significance in the environment.

Booroongapah, Birthplace of Rivers

Urarra river water, Dugulumba river water, ochre, copper leaf, charcoal and acrylic on canvas
95x95cm
2025

04/08/2025

28/07/2025

I visited Bu’ndamba Creek to collect water for my latest painting, it was enchanting, crystal clear water and ferns growing in fallen logs!

25/07/2025

For the palliative care ward of the Ripley Satellite Hospital. I am so honoured to be given the opportunity to create this work to offer patients, visitors and staff a gentle connection to the landscape beyond the clinical walls, something familiar, grounding and serene. The hospital is marked with a you are here symbol by the path of Bu’ndamba Creek (the Ugarapul spelling of Bundamba).

01/07/2025

Flood Lines has come down but there are still paintings to share!

This painting depicts a more expanded view of the city, marked with the modern street pattern to help orientate viewers.
A Trilogy of Floods refers to the major floods of 1974, 2011 and 2022. The river is clearly marked and surrounded by the flood waters of three separate floods. The smaller flood is the 2022 flood (16.72 metres), 2011 was larger (19.4 metres), and 1974 was larger still (20.7 metres), all heights recorded at the David Trumpy Bridge gauge. This painting was informed by the Ipswich City Historical Flood Information's interactive flood maps.
Every hydrologist will tell you that no two floods are the same. Nature will determine the quantity, intensity, and distribution of rainfall. Humans have built dams, altered the floodplains, and built hard surfaces that alter water flows. This makes flood prediction and management extremely difficult.
Despite draining and channelling the creeks and building up the land, parts of Ipswich remain low-lying and the watery pathways remain, even if hidden in dry years. Although unpredictable, floods are inevitable and perhaps will be more severe and frequent with a changing climate. As you can see in A Trilogy of Floods, floods do follow familiar paths.

A Trilogy of Floods
Urarrar River water, Urarrar flood water, hand ground ochre and limestone, copper leaf, charcoal and acrylic paint on canvas.
122 x 122 cm
2025

06/06/2025

Last days!