​Joshua de Gruchy (b. 1999) is an early-career artist from Western Australia.
Choosing an alternative to formal fine arts education, de Gruchy travelled east in search of a new place to develop his painting practice. This decision led him, unexpectedly, to Wilyakali and Barkindji Country in far western New South Wales, where he spent three years working in the arid landscape surrounding Broken Hill and the old port towns of Wilcannia and Menindee on the Darling (Baaka) River.
 

During this period, plein air painting became central to de Gruchy’s process, as he worked to observe the ever-changing colours of the bush and to expand his studio practice beyond earlier concerns with line, form, and compositional harmony. It became a matter of finding common ground between abstraction and figuration, and of capturing—with vitality—the intensity of solitude within the landscape.
 

Joshua now finds himself on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria, where he has relocated to continue his studies and explore the role that travel plays in the evolution of his work.