William Potanin
William Potanin (BFA Printmaking) is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works on unceded Gadigal lands. His work explores Site as a space of constant interactions between materials, historical residues, and bodily functions, produced artworks become artefacts of larger social processes. Investigating how distance erodes language into form. A stone arm was discovered on the rocky beaches of Italy weathered by the sea. The relics ounce soft surface worn down to its geological structure. Floating, half submerged in the ruins of meaning. William was the recipient of The Bettina McMahon Drawing prize (2024) and the Ellen Lee O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award (2024) and has exhibited broadly most recently at the 2025 NAS Library Book Prize and at Rofe Street Gallery (Solo show). Potanin’s works are included in the collections of Curtain University, RMIT, and the University of South Queensland.
