Veronica Calarco is an Australian artist living in Wales who uses printmaking, painting and weaving to explore her obsession with language and the land in which she lives and visits. She is the founder and co-ordinator of Stiwdio Maelor project and a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers.

Veronica has recently been awarded two grants from the Arts Council of Wales, International Opportunities Fund for Individuals and for the Gwrando (listening) Fund.

In the 1990s, Veronica completed a degree in printmaking and a postgraduate degree in weaving at the Institute of Arts, Australia National University. After university, she ran a graphic design business and worked as a community artist in Canberra and then in the remote areas of Australia such as the Kimberleys, in north Western and central Australia where she managed an Aboriginal Art Centre. She has completed diverse residencies, such as at Parliament House, ACT, where she explored how workers related to the building and Grindell’s Hut, Flinders Ranges, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, New York and Sauerbier House, Adelaide, where she explored language and the notion of country. Veronica first visited Wales in 2004 and began living between Wales and Australia, before finally settling permanently in Wales in 2012. She received an A level in Welsh in 2013 and the Dan Lynn James Scholarship to study Welsh in 2014. In 2014, she founded Stiwdio Maelor, an artist residency program. In 2021, Veronica completed a PhD in printmaking at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, titled ‘This is a language warning’ researching endangered and minority languages through the notion of country. Veronica was awarded a Joy Welch research grant in 2021. This research project is ‘The Land as Other’ and examines the way Veronica, and other artists in Wales respond to the environmental and rewilding movements and the positioning of land by outsiders as other - a visual / playground commodity (tourism).