Rhys Cousins

Rhys Cousins is a multidiscliplinary artist based in Melbourne.

Blending a formal education in landscape architecture with works across sculpture, installation, and digital screens. Cousins’ practice is an investigation into the contemporary urban experience through the changing nature of landscape. His most recent work, the Screenscapes series—incorporates sculptural reliefs, pigments, and cast surfaces— and examines the intersections of materiality, technology, and place. Drawing from urban textures and digital aesthetics, his work reflects on how screen-based experiences alter the way we engage with the physical world.

His practice provokes thought about the impact of technology on our everyday lives and the haptic possibilities of an increasingly digital existence. He has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2024, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2023 and Footscray Art Prize 2023, and was winner of the 2022 emerging artist award at FortyFive Downstairs for his work Pixel, a textural reimagining of screen technologies. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Australia.