Shona Nunan and Michael-Francis Cartwright are a dynamic Australian partnership who have been creating sculpture, painting, and drawing for over 40 years. Their love and passion for art runs deep — inherited from their fathers, both painters — and now carried forward by their two sons, Jacob and Sollai, also sculptors, making this a three-generation artist family.
With studios in Italy, France, and Australia, Cartwright and Nunan are inspired by a lifetime of transcultural journeys — reflecting their early ancestral passage from Europe to Australia, and now, full circle, back to Europe in their own time.
Today, their main studios are in Correns, a beautiful village in the heart of Provence, famous as France’s first biological (organic) village. Here, along the Argens River, they have restored a five-level house for creating and storing their artworks and built Le Grand Atelier, a dedicated space for their larger sculptures and paintings.
Italy remains a creative stronghold. Since their arrival in Carrara and Pietrasanta in 1984, they have worked in the historic marble and bronze studios of these renowned artist cities — the mecca of sculpture materials, tools, and artisans. Their long-standing connection to Italy continues to shape their practice, working there at different times of the year.
In their early nomadic wanderings through Asia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Europe, they found enduring inspiration — the powerful presence of ancient cultures, the marks left on the land, and the raw beauty and edge of nature — all elements that speak through their art today.
Collectors and art lovers are warmly invited to visit the studios by appointment, to experience the work firsthand and hear the stories behind it.
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