Artists

Since its launch in 2015, Side has built a reputation as a small but dynamic space with a considered curatorial vision. Side seeks to support deep artistic development, foster long-term relationships, and connect artists with collectors, institutions, and wider audiences. 

Represented Artists
Side Gallery proudly represents three distinct and compelling mid-career artistic voices — Carolyn V Watson, Jessica Nothdurft and Kitty Horton — each of whom contributes to the gallery’s commitment to sustained practice and conceptual rigour.

Carolyn V Watson

Based in Brisbane and primarily self-taught, Carolyn’s practice is characterised by labour-intensive methods that shift between two- and three-dimensional modes of making. Her work often deconstructs familiar objects and reassembles them into forms that feel at once enigmatic and ritualistic, engaging themes of memory, defamiliarisation and embodied process.

Jessica Nothdurft

A multimedia artist working in Meanjin/Brisbane, Jessica uses oil, ink, metal and drawing to create evocative, highly personal works rooted in life experience. Drawing on influences from Giacometti to Louise Bourgeois and Jenny Watson, her practice explores psychological depth and emotional complexity through figurative and sometimes symbolic imagery, transforming personal narratives into universally resonant scenes.

Kitty Horton

An Australian artist also based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Kitty’s practice spans oil, mixed media, ceramics and drawing. Inspired by American Minimalism, she investigates form, mark-making, and the relationships between painting and object, using gesture, shape, and compositional structure to explore the dualities of hard and soft, abstraction and form. Her work has been exhibited widely across Australia and is held in private collections internationally.