Bianca Joanna Buliga is an Adelaide-based artist, photographer, and mental health advocate whose work combines documentary photography, self-portraiture, and photo-therapeutic techniques to explore lived experiences of mental health, neurodivergence, and identity.
Living with bipolar disorder and AuDHD, Bianca often begins projects from her own personal experiences before expanding them into collaborative works with others whose voices are often overlooked. She uses art as a way to create understanding, challenge stigma, and open conversations about subjects that are too often avoided.
Her latest project, Hear Me Say This, part of the 2025 SALA Festival and a finalist for the Don Dunstan Foundation Award is a virtual photographic exhibition sharing self-portraits and portrait stories from people living with mental health challenges and neurodivergence. Designed with a strong focus on inclusion and accessibility, it can be experienced by anyone, anywhere in the world.
Bianca is committed to showing real, unfiltered stories because she has personally felt the effects of stigma and misunderstanding. She believes representation helps people feel less alone, while honest storytelling encourages others to listen, ask questions, and break down barriers. Her openness is also shaped by personal loss, having lost close family members to suicide, and she is determined to speak honestly about these realities in ways that are compassionate and inclusive.
In 2024, Bianca debuted as an exhibiting artist with A Postpartum Story, a self-portrait series documenting her journey through postpartum depression. Her work has been recognised with a Merit Award from Gallery M for her self-portrait Within the Spectrum, and has been featured in exhibitions at SALA, Head On Photo Festival, and other galleries. She is also an accredited Mindfulness Photographer with Look Again (UK), integrating therapeutic approaches into her creative practice.
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