Lorraine Simiana is a Sydney-based contemporary Australian artist working across painting, sound, installation and material experimentation. Painting sits at the centre of her practice, from figurative oil works to atmospheric landscapes of the Parramatta River estuary.

Her work explores the relationship between the visible and invisible, and how experiences such as silence, memory, identity and emotion can be made perceptible. In her paintings, this appears as figures held in confined, threshold spaces and stilled, misty waterways, where presence, absence and the traces of lived experience are felt more than described. The Unseen/Unheard series considers psychological constraint, visibility and the female experience.

Alongside painting, she works with resin, luminous pigments, sound and spatial installation. Layering, transparency and transformation run through all of it. Sound operates as both a subject and a material process, exploring how vibration and listening can reveal what is otherwise unseen or unheard.

Grounded in experimentation and observation, her practice reflects an ongoing enquiry into connection, vulnerability and belonging. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School and has undertaken artist residencies at the Blacktown Arts Centre. Her work has been exhibited across Sydney.