Brigita Lastauskaite is a Lithuanian-born Australian artist who has been based in Melbourne since 1998. She completed a Master of Fine Art at the Vilnius Art Academy and later studied at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg with Professor Tone Fink (Austria, 2013). The following year she was awarded a scholarship to study with French art duo Annie & Patrick Poirier.

Brigita has been a finalist in major awards, including the Mosman, NEAP, Fisher’s Ghost, Blacktown, and Hutchins Art Prizes, and has undertaken residencies in Finland, Lithuania, and Tasmania. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally.

Deeply fascinated by landscape, organic forms, and textures, Brigita creates paintings that evoke a feeling of place rather than replicate a scene. Her process is spontaneous and visceral, marked by gestural calligraphic marks, layered textures, and distinctive colour harmonies. Inspired by her love of snorkelling and the underwater world, she often conjures fluid, unexpected seascapes—where organic textures emerge like hand-woven tapestries, a signature element of her visual language.