Brandi Salmon is a Wiradjuri artist, mother, and entrepreneur living on Palawa Country in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Raised as one of eight siblings in country Victoria, Brandi grew up off-Country, disconnected from her Aboriginal family and Culture. Growing up in predominantly white communities, she experienced firsthand the racism, stereotyping, and cultural erasure that many Blak kids endure in silence.

Those early experiences are the foundation of her fire, and her art is the vessel. With over a decade of painting experience, Brandi has developed a bold, confrontational visual practice spanning oil painting, large-scale murals, live painting and digital works. Her art interrogates how Aboriginal people have been misrepresented in Australian visual history and reasserts Blak presence in spaces where it has long been erased.

Brandi is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Monash University, due to graduate in December 2025. Her thesis project reframes canonical Western paintings to centre Aboriginal matriarchs, survival, and resistance. This research is deeply personal, a form of visual reclamation for the culture she was denied access to.

Brandi’s sparks dialogue, confronts power, and speaks uncomfortable truths that institutions and Australian society often avoid. Through a growing national profile and online platform, she continues to educate on issues like cultural appropriation, exploitation of Aboriginal artists and deaths in custody.

Now one of Lutruwita’s most prominent emerging artists, Brandi uses her visibility and art as a form of Blaktivism. Her next chapter is set to reclaim space, shift narratives, and build platforms for the next generation of Blak creatives, especially those who, like her, had to fight to find their way back to Culture.