Güler Altunbas is an award-winning artist and advocate based in Naarm/Melbourne Australia working across painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and digital technologies. She has a prolific exhibition history, including Linden New Art, Bundoora Homestead, the Yarra Gallery Federation Square, Islamic Museum of Australia, Gasworks Arts Park, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery and Melbourne Fringe Festival. 

She is a mentor, mentee, grant assessor, and recipient of multiple grants through City of Melbourne, and City of Port Phillip, creating impactful projects such as Chrysalis: Restitution & Resolution and The Human First? Project, an online portrait project curating artists with disability at The Dax Centre, University of Melbourne. Güler is one of the founding artists at Nimbus Studios, Arts Access Victoria. Her innovative practice is deeply shaped by lived experience and her long-standing advocacy against violence towards women and children, bringing issues of human rights and social justice to public attention through both creative and civic platforms. 

Güler was raised by leaders in the fashion industry, which has led to a professional career extending beyond the studio. She has held key media specialist roles in national and international broadcasting and training, leadership, project management, management of projects with women, young people and culturally and linguistically diverse communities. For over ten years respectively, Güler has taught open studios and exhibition programs, worked with NGO’s and Councils and led mediation work and training development at the Victorian Department of Justice & Community Safety. Güler has presented forums on gender equity, family violence and disability rights, consistently demonstrating the power of art to amplify voices and drive social change.