Studio Practice

Illustration by Aly Indermühle of a girl standing on a step stool holding a red megaphone, in her signature black, white, and red ink style.

Making things has always been at the core of who I am. Every project, every creative decision, every direction has been deliberate and part of the experience that brought me to where I am today.

I started in animation and digital storytelling, moved into large-scale light installations and public art, and two years ago followed what I'd always loved most: drawing, storytelling, and making books. Looking back, it feels like everything was always heading here.

Today I work as an artist, illustrator, and author based in Sydney. I create children's books, illustrated artist books, and the Playful Coloring series. For me color and line have always been a language, one that sets the mood, carries the emotion, and brings people into the experience, whether that's a light installation that stops you in a public space, a children's book that pulls you into a story, or a coloring page where the colors you choose say something about how you're feeling that day. That belief runs through everything I make, and always has.
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My Practice

Illustration by Aly Indermühle of a girl sitting at a desk drawing a red heart, surrounded by art supplies and shelves, in her signature black, white, and red ink style.

My studio practice lives in two worlds and I love them both equally.

The first is digital and publishing focused. I'm currently illustrating Maddie Messy Mop, one of approximately ten children's book manuscripts I have in various stages of development. I recently completed I See You: A Book for Artists, an illustrated book about the experience of being an artist in the age of social media, which is about to be published. And I continue to grow the Playful Coloring series, four volumes of original hand drawn abstract designs, self published through Amazon KDP with more on the way.

The second is entirely physical. I create bespoke handmade artist books, one of a kind objects with special papers, hand binding, and illustrations that couldn't exist in any other form. Each one is its own small world. My current project in this space is Grace, an illustrated book in which I respond to letters written to me long ago that I never answered. From where I am now, looking back at where I was then. It will eventually become a series.

When I'm creating, whether it's on screen or at my desk with pens, pencils, and watercolors, this is where I am most myself. In the drawing, the storytelling, the line, the color, the layout. Every morning I wake up genuinely grateful for what I get to create.

Light & Public Art

Illustration by Aly Indermühle of a woman in a red coat standing alone under a street lamp with a grey city skyline behind her, from I See You: A Book for Artists.

For over a decade I created large scale light installations for public spaces, galleries, and major events across Australia and internationally. Vivid Sydney, the Australian Open, Melbourne Design Week, Art Central Hong Kong. These were ambitious, ephemeral works, the kind that existed for a few nights and then were gone forever.

I loved everything about making them. The scale, the technical challenge, the moment of standing back and watching someone stop in their tracks because something made them feel wonder. Light is its own language. It speaks differently to every person who stands in front of it and it never says the same thing twice.

Some of my favorite works from this period: Horizons, which transported people from a cold Sydney winter night into the colors of an Australian bush sunset. Light Waves, suspended into Sydney Harbour, constantly changing with the tide so no two people ever experienced it the same way. And Connections, created in collaboration with an astrophysicist, which translated invisible radio waves and data traveling through the air around us into color and light. All that invisible information, every message, every upload, every connection between people, made suddenly visible and beautiful.

This chapter of my practice informs and lives in everything I make now. In the way I understand color as experience. In the belief that art should make people feel something. And in the knowledge that something beautiful and ephemeral is always there, if we allow ourselves to truly see it.

See Lightworks

Illustration by Aly Indermühle of a girl sitting in a window looking out at red hearts floating above a grey city skyline with one red lit window, from I See You: A Book for Artists.

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ALY INDERMÜHLE
Artist, Illustrator & Author | Sydney, Australia indermuhle.com.au | @alyindermuhle

ABOUT

Making things has always been at the core of who I am. I started in animation and digital storytelling, moved into large scale light installations and public art, and two years ago followed what I'd always loved most: drawing, storytelling, and making books. Today I work as an artist, illustrator, and author creating children's books, illustrated artist books, and the Playful Coloring series. For me color and line have always been a language, one that sets the mood, carries the emotion, and brings people into the experience.

PUBLISHED WORKS

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Australian Society of Authors
(ASA) ASA Style File Illustrator
SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators)

PICTURE BOOKS IN DEVELOPMENT

Maddie Messy Mop
Edgar the Brave
The Sunblocker Emergency!
Never Invite a T-Rex to Your Birthday!
Pinchy's Toothy Adventure
Walter, Where Are You?
Jazzy Pants & Jellybean Toes
Monkey's New Sister

HANDMADE & ARTIST BOOKS

PUBLIC ART & EXHIBITIONS

WORKSHOPS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

PANELS & TALKS

COLLECTIONS

Saatchi & Saatchi
TWT Property Group

AWARDS

2015 | Sculpture By The Sea Award | National Art School

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Before establishing my art practice, I managed the United States Air Force's first fully functional animation studio and worked as a 3D animator at MTV Productions in Switzerland. This background in digital storytelling, movement, and visual narrative continues to inform my illustration and book work today.

Multiple red hearts of varying sizes arranged across a white background.

I take on illustration projects and collaborations that feel like a genuine fit.
If you have something in mind, feel free to get in touch.

STUDIO PRACTICE

My Practice

Light & Public Art

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ALY INDERMÜHLE Artist, Illustrator & Author | Sydney, Australia indermuhle.com.au | @alyindermuhle

STUDIO INDERMÜHLE

ALY INDERMÜHLE
Artist, Illustrator & Author | Sydney, Australia indermuhle.com.au | @alyindermuhle