Photography · 2026  |  Jude Morrell
Part of Inspired by Her, the annual creative programme of The Orana Every Woman Festival. Curated by Erifili Davis. Exhibited at The Greens, Dubbo — free, for the full seven days of the festival.

Created in response to the Inspired by Her brief. Exhibited as part of the 2026 Orana Every Woman Festival, Dubbo NSW. By Jude Morrell.

My photographic portrait of local artist Milena Sallustio represents the iconic woman.

Strong, capable, creative, loving, and when necessary, fiercely protective.

The word ‘icon’ as we know it today comes from the ancient Greek (eikón) meaning ‘image, resemblance.’ Icons today, as graphics, are simple and direct, designed to be immediately ‘read’ by the viewer. The black lines of this icon read as ‘human.’

Underneath the lines, the complexity of being uniquely individual is contained within its shape. Icons of the past would often be small paintings, mosaics or stained glass that were greatly treasured.

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Jude Morrell is a photographer interested in exploring the intersection between memory, emotion and visual storytelling, with images that invite viewers to pause, reflect and connect. She is an art photographer whose practice spans many years of creative engagement with image-making as well as archives and community-based cultural work and teaching. She believes that art photography is not only a medium for expression but also a way of creating dialogue — between artist and viewer, subject and story, image and emotion.

Milena Sallustio is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of the subconscious and reality. Milena also contributed her own visual artwork to the exhibition — a drawing exploring Nonna, Mother, Daughter relationships and the cyclical nature of change across generations.

More of Jude’s work

Jude’s practice extends into multimedia. Her work accompanies “I See You”, performed by Joel Riley — another Dubbo collaboration, via Studio 138.

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Eight women. Eight responses to the same brief.

Inspired by Her invites women artists and writers to make new work inspired by the lives, voices and stories of women from our region’s past. The 2026 exhibition opened on Monday 2 March at the Macquarie Conservatorium, with a Wiradjuri Welcome to Country by Aunty Diane McNaboe, alongside novelist Eleanor Limprecht and performer Rachael Beck.

• Tin Town Tess — Erifili Davis
• Something New — Kalina Davis
• COVID Lockdown — Nisaba Merrieweather
• Homecoming — Nisaba Merrieweather
• Wambuul: Echoes of the Turning Tide — Sophia Johnson
• A Bouquet of Flowers — Phoebe Maroulis
• Nonna. Mother. Daughter. — Milena Sallustio

See the full Inspired by Her 2026 programme →  |  The brief is open again for 2027 →