About
Cara Sanders is a self-taught abstract artist raised in the Kimberley, now based on the Gold Coast/Bundjalung Country. Inspired by her environment, she creates large scale textured works that mirror shifting landscapes. Always evolving, her practice is a way of deepening her understanding of herself and the world around her.
In 2023 Cara made her gallery debut with a solo exhibition with Gallery Alchemy. Since then she has released three sold out collections with her works now owned by collectors around the world. Cara is co-director of her Burleigh Heads studio Mint Art House which she paints at full time.
CV: Cara Sanders (B. 1992, Kununurra, WA)
Gold Coast, QLD
Email: info@carasanders.com.au
Instagram: caraasanderss
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 - Present: Co-Director, Mint Art House - Gold Coast
2025: Mentor for the Level Up x Mint Art House Program.
2021 - 2022: Youth Advisory Group, HOTA – Gold Coast
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2025: Amber Rose Wallis Oil Painting Course - Byron School of Art, Mullumbimby
2025: Amber Creswell Bell Mentorship - Gold Coast
2025: Amber Rose Wallis Mentorship - Gold Coast
2024: Creative Art Therapy, College of Conscious Living - Gold Coast
2023 - 2025: Pennylane Shen Consulting - Gold Coast
2021: Swell Sculpture and City of Gold Coast, Site and Situation - Gold Coast
2013: Bachelor of New Media Art, James Cook University - Townsville
GALLERY REPRESENTATION & ART RESIDENCIES
2024: Merge Creative Art Residency - New Brighton
2023 - Present: Gallery Alchemy - Sydney
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025: Affordable Art Fair, Mint Art House - Brisbane
- Papercuts, Mint Art House - Gold Coast
2024: Affordable Art Fair, Mint Art House - Brisbane
- Paradise Gloss, group exhibition, Side Gallery - Brisbane
- Papercuts, Mint Art House - Gold Coast
- Dreamers, Mint Art House - Gold Coast
2023: SOLO EXHIBITION Internal Landscapes, Gallery Alchemy - Sydney
- Affordable Art Fair, Mint Art House - Sydney
- Echo’s, Side Gallery - Brisbane
- Ancarna, Mint Art House - Gold Coast
2022: Smalls, Side Gallery - Brisbane
2021: SOLO EXHIBITION Physical Meets Digital, NFT Launch and Activation - Gold Coast
- Released a large physical artwork as an NFT, destroyed it in front of a live audience.
- SOLO EXHIBITION The Untamed, Mint Art House - Gold Coast
- This Is Art, group exhibition and live painting – Gold Coast
2020: SOLO EXHIBITION This Is Art, Vacant Assembly - Brisbane
2019: Under the Milky Way, group exhibition - Gold Coast
2018: SOLO EXHIBITION, Dust Temple - Gold Coast
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2024: Surface Festival Mural - Gold Coast
- Burleigh Brewing Mural - Gold Coast
- Live Painting for LSKD Event - Brisbane
2022: Mural collaboration, with Brad Turner, The Local Burleigh - Gold Coast
2022: Big City Lights Program, developed and facilitated 3 workshops with a public art outcome - Gold Coast
- Brisbane Street Art Festival - Brisbane
- Live Painting at the F1, Mr Consistent - Melbourne
2021: Live Painting at the Gabba, Woolloongabba - Brisbane
- City of Gold Coast Level Up Arty Bites Program - Gold Coast
2021: Mackay Base Hospital - Mackay
2020: Bleach Festival Installation with Mint Art House, Placemakers - Gold Coast
2019: Mackay City Council, 20m High Water Tower Public Mural Project - Mackay
2019: Exmouth Mural, Broome Mural, Margaret River Mural - Western Australia