Concord High School
Wangal and Burramattagal Country
Still Ending, and Beginning Still
Painting
Oil on canvas
My body of work explores the delicacy and vehement resilience of womanhood, using oil paint to convey both the benign softness in my models’ features and the undeviating strength in their gaze. Identity, our sense of who we are, is forged by familial lineages, endured experiences and culture. My identity is represented through the Arabian domestic setting in the work and female subject matters enveloped within the comfort of warm tones. This is communicated through the motif of the eye in these 'still lifes', as physical bodies are candid and the eyes converse.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: Shirin Neshat, Jonathan Dalton, Jonathan Yeo, Paul Cézanne.
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