Aldona Kmieć (b. Poland) is a professional photographic artist based at Montsalvat, Melbourne. Her arts practice spans over 20 years and encompasses digital and analogue photography, printmaking techniques such as cyanotype, installation, and archival approaches. Aldona creates works that explore themes of belonging and memory, merging conceptual and documentary methods to examine the complexities of human connection.
Aldona earned an Advanced Diploma in Photography from London Metropolitan University in 2008. After migrating to Australia, she established her photography practice and studio in Ballarat and later in Melbourne.
Her creative practice has been supported through grants and residencies, including the City of Melbourne Arts Grant (2025), as well as opportunities with Montsalvat Arts Centre (where she currently has her studio), Gasworks Arts Park and Trocadero Projects, where she received mentorship and engaged in focused studio residencies. Recent solo exhibitions include Hills Hoist (2025), Veil (2024), Neighbourhood Watch (2024), and Winterbloom (2021), alongside documentary commissions for the State Library Victoria (2021–2022),.
Aldona’s work is represented in collections both nationally and internationally. She has been a finalist in awards including the Omnia Art Prize (2025), Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (2024), and the Bowness Photography Prize (2014), among others, and was long-listed for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (UK, 2024).
Visit her studio and gallery at Montsalvat Arts Centre in Eltham, where she regularly holds Studio Open Days and runs Cyanotype Workshops. Subscribe to the newsletter on her website to receive updates. Instagram: @aldonakmiec
***The artist acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which she lives and works, and pays her respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging.***