Sacha Pola is an Australian artist working within a mythic–apparitional register he calls Carnagraph — a cosmology of visions, atmospheres, and half-formed presences.

His paintings stage encounters with beings that hover between appearance and disappearance: wings without bodies, spectral lions, figures dissolving back into light. These works do not illustrate myth; they operate at the threshold where the sacred attempts to return in fragmented, atmospheric form.

Pola’s practice spans painting, drawing, ceramics, writing, and free-verse poetry, all of which contribute to the broader Carnagraph universe — an ongoing investigation into the metaphysical, the symbolic, and the post-secular sublime.

He has exhibited in Sydney, Canberra, and regional centres, and currently lives and works on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.

Solo and group shows 2016-Present

ANCA Galleries (Can)

• Studio artist showcase (group)

CCAS (Can)

• BLAZE 9 Emerging artist showcase (group),

• Australian idle (solo),

NISHI (Can)

• Legendary (solo),

M16 (Can)

• Studio artists show (group)

M2 Gallery (Syd)

• Tidings From Arcadia (solo) (2024)

Notable Achievements

2019 Muswellbrook Prize Winner (Painting)

2016 BLAZE 9 CCAS Emerging Artist Showcase

Education

2021 UNE MA Teaching - Visual Art, French and English language studies

2015 ANU School of Art Graduate (Print-media and Drawing/Honours)

2015 ANU School of Arts and Humanities Graduate (Art History/French)