Over the past 17 years, Sydney artist Belinda Ward has spent countless hours drawing at industrial sites around Sydney, capturing their grimy beauty in a series of ghostly, mixed media drawings. 

“I am, in a sense, documenting or mapping the changes to the urban landscape and the rhythm of work and play." 

Rarely do figures appear in her work; rather, their presence is alluded to. 

“It is a rather surreal experience working in decommissioned sites such as in the bowels of White Bay Power Station, the Carlton Brewery and Cockatoo Island where I work alone surrounded by the ghosts of thousands of workers.” 

Ward has a Masters of Fine Arts from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. Belinda also studied two years of architecture at UNSW while working as an architectural assistant in the late Harry Seidler’s office.  In addition to her work as an artist, Ward is a sessional lecturer in the Drawing Dept, NAS, Darlinghurt where she instructs students in life drawing in Degree, Dobell and HSC extension programs.