Rily-Mae is a South Australian multidisciplinary artist whose practice resists easy definition. She works across painting, printmaking, and graphite — moving between mediums as the idea demands, never settling into a single signature style. What remains constant is an emotional sensibility that is difficult to pin down but immediately recognisable: contemplative, layered, and anchored in blue.
Blue is not a theme for Rily-Mae — it was never decided on, just noticed. It was already present in everything she made before she had a name for it. It surfaces in the sun-printed chemistry of her cyanotype work, in the atmospheric depth of her paintings, in the quiet mood that runs through almost everything she makes. A feeling more than a colour. A signature that wasn't constructed so much as recognised.
Her graphite work sits alongside her painted pieces with a different kind of intimacy — detailed, precise, and quietly intense. She works large when the concept earns it, and approaches scale as a deliberate choice rather than a default. There is an ambition in the work that doesn't announce itself loudly but becomes clear the longer you spend with it.
Rily-Mae is based in Adelaide, South Australia. She makes work that is honest before it is anything else, and continues to build a practice that is genuinely difficult to categorise — which is, for her, exactly the point.