Here's an even more remarkable fact. The trend has popped up and solidified with barely a whisper, or a what-about-the-poor-blokes complaint. 

That's according to arts academic and curator Julie Ewington, who will give a talk on the subject at the next Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society (ADFAS) Launceston lecture next week.

"We're seeing a real moment, I think, in the fact that there are women artists in Australia who are just fantastic, who are being recognised, just, as it happens," she said. 

"[The Biennale] is a fabulous showcase of the absolute very best in contemporary art, and it just happens for the past four years, that the [Australian] artists have been women."

The Venice Biennale is known as 'the Olympics of art', a nickname Ewington said isn't too far off the mark. 

Twenty-nine countries, including Australia, send their chosen artists to represent them in an official pavilion in the Giardini (garden), with other countries exhibiting around the city. 

There are prizes, but more valuable for the artists is the exposure that comes with being shown at the art world's most prestigious event. 

This year, Angelica Mesiti will occupy the Australian Pavilion,. She was preceded by Tracey Moffatt in 2017, Fiona Hall in 2015, and Simryn Gill in 2013. 

Ewington is particularly effusive about Hobart-based Fiona Hall, whose 2015 Wrong Way Time brought clocks, camouflaged creatures and foreign currency to the well-heeled Venice crowd. 

"It doesn't matter where you come from, you're going to find Fiona Hall fascinating," she said. 

"She makes everyday objects magical. She can take a sardine can, and make something that you never would have imagined out of it, that is beautiful and beguiling.

"She's passionately engaged in ideas about interpreting the environment, but she's equally had a long long interest in international trade and transformation - she always throws a curveball, if I can put it like that."

Ewington's lecture has been designed specifically for the ADFAS event. 

"I'm really thrilled to be able to speak about these artists in Launceston," she said. 

"We have extremely interesting artists in this country. We're very fortunate."