Blue is the colour most sensitive to our eyes.
The earth, itself two-thirds water, is much like our human bodies, equally almost two-thirds water.
The transformational qualities of water and light playing together, reveal to human eyes varying types of refraction and dispersion.
Our bloodlines and cultural hybridity are also in this constant state of flux and growth.
Unravelling these threads of woven histories, the artist borrows from the animist tradition of her ancestry, tracing the fossils of past peoples and significant animal deities in hybrid form and imagery.
‘Bent and Flexed, to see the Mind’s Eye, The Bloodline’
Oil on Canvas
90x180cm
‘Forwardfold’
Oil on Linen
50x60cm
‘I’ll watch over you, you’ll watch over me’
Oil on Canvas
60x90cm
‘(Don’t) Hold Your Breath’
Oil on Canvas
60x90cm
‘Uvea’
Oil on Canvas
60x122cm
‘Unravelling Hybridity’
Oil on Canvas
60x90cm
‘Till We Have Faces’ 2018-2023, Silk, Porcelain, Dyed Indigo Fabrics, Ceramic, Glaze, Ink, Projected Image, Beeswax, Oyster Shells
- A Group Show at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba. 22 July-10 Sep 2023.
rachael harrex. artist. 