Ray Monde lives and works in Braidwood, Australia. Paper has been his obsession since childhood when he plastered his bedroom wall with cutouts from glossy magazines on the family farm near Taree. 

After a successful career in advertising in Sydney, London and New York, Monde returned to his fascination with paper which shapes his practice today. He works across a variety of mediums including collage, drawing, painting and multimedia. 

 Monde’s primary technique involves hand-tearing and over-painting fragments of paper sourced from magazines. These elements are layered into detailed compositions that speak to the artist’s relationship with the physical and emotional landscapes that surround him.

Recent Selected Awards, Grants and Public Commissions

2024     Paddington Art Prize (Winner Anthea Polson Gallery Award & Rathenart Print Prize)

              ACT City Renewal Authority, Creative Hoarding Pilot Program

              Bundanon Artist-in-Residence

              Muswellbrook Art Prize (Finalist)

              Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)

              QPRC Art Award (Finalist)

2023     Still: National Still Life Award (Finalist)

              Naked & Nude Art Prize (Finalist)

              WAMA Art Prize (Finalist)

2022, 2020 the Blake Prize

2022, 2020 National Works on Paper Prize. 

2021 Paddington Art Prize,

2020 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

MPRG National Works on Paper(Finalist)

         Veolia Mulwaree Creative Arts Scholarship

          Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)

Monde has exhibited widely and his works are held in collections in Australia and internationally.

“There's only one answer to walking dusty roads all day.”

Ray Monde, 2025.

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