Walking Red Hill – Tania Vrancic
In-studio until Friday 21st April 2023!
Artist statement
It is interesting how different events in our lives can be turning points or shifts in our direction of work and life. At the end of May 2021 I fell over and fractured my elbow which then needed surgery. During my recovery I developed a frozen shoulder and both of these things combined make for a long slow recovery.
Never to sit still for long I went back to exploring painting and other mixed media processes I could manage during my recovery and still feed my creativity and by default maintain my happy mental health.
This of course all happened during COVID-19 and lockdown which meant I spent many hours roaming Red Hill, exploring various trails, enjoying the view of ACT and paying attention to the wonderful details of trees, leaves, lichen and rocks.
Each painting is multi layered with hand painted papers, hand printed tissue papers, image transfers from my photography on my walks and finished off with a hand cut papercut.
About the Artist
Since childhood I have always made things and sold them, for some reason the process doesn’t seem to be complete for me until the item has left my hands and lives in somebody’s home. After having children, it was the perfect opportunity to have a different career, something creative and more satisfying so I applied to sell my ceramics at the Canberra Handmade Markets and was accepted. That was the beginning of this amazing journey I find myself on today.
I love the creative life and find inspiration is everywhere, especially in nature. Dabbling in many different mediums I find each one informs the other but clay, porcelain is where I am most at home, it simply makes sense to me.
I feel like this year is the right timing to push my painting practice further, I’ve been waiting and dabbling in it for a while now.
My favourite thing to do is play in my studio and I get to do that every day.