Works on Paper
Imaginary Science
The Imaginary Science series uses botanical, anatomical and cellular imagery, reclaiming historically feminine practices like embroidery and watercolour painting. Exploring the space between art and craft, and the use of intensive hand-made processes, the work uses hybrid forms to articulate an imaginary science. Imagined life forms are created from the influence of Australian and European flora, producing hybrid, biomorphic shapes that are joined together through repetition and pattern.
Nucleus, ink and watercolour on paper 70cm diameter 2020
Detail image, Nucleus
Detail image, Nucleus
Breath, Ink and watercolour on watercolour paper, 76cm x 112cm 2020
Breath depicts botanical, anatomical and cellular imagery, using Australian and European flora to create hybrid forms that articulate an imaginary science. Colour relationships are tonal with the use of painterly techniques, underscored by descriptive drawing, which references scientific illustration and is influenced by aspects of printmaking, textiles and pattern.
Detail images
The Imaginary Science series uses botanical, anatomical and cellular imagery, reclaiming historically feminine practices like embroidery and watercolour painting. Exploring the space between art and craft, and the use of intensive hand-made processes, the work uses hybrid forms to articulate an imaginary science. Imagined life forms are created from the influence of Australian and European flora, producing hybrid, biomorphic shapes that are joined together through repetition and pattern.
Stem, ink and watercolour on watercolour paper, 82cm x 117cm 2020
Stem is a descriptive drawing, using the influence of Australian and European flora to create hybrid forms that articulate an imaginary science. Depicting wildflowers and weeds that are commingled into an imaginative botanical, Stem references scientific illustration and is influenced by aspects of printmaking, textiles and pattern.
Cellular Landscape
Cellular Landscape, ink and watercolour on watercolour paper, 114cm x 152cm
Detail image Cellular Landscape
Detail image Cellular Landscape
Botanical Self Portrait
Botanical Self Portrait explores the space between portraiture and ornamentation. Reclaiming historically feminine practices like textiles and watercolour painting, this work uses pattern to convey intimacy through the use of detailed drawing techniques. Botanical Self Portrait is part of a wider body of work that looks to the intersection of art and craft and how these practices relate to traditional notions of femininity.
Botanical Self Portrait references pattern in textile practices, as well as painting, interweaving the artists’ training in printmaking, textiles and painting. Pattern is created from the influence of Australian and European flora, producing hybrid and abstract shapes that are joined together through repetition and pattern. The decorative and the personal overlap in this work on paper, combining painterly watercolour techniques with detailed ink drawing.