'Disco Trip'/ Sarah-Anne Rendina
Introducing our first artist of the week in May: Sarah-Anne Rendina with her series Disco Trip.
Sarah is an emerging paint-based visual artist in Naarm who explores intense colours and abstract patterns to comment on the idiosyncratic experiences we encounter in daily life. She works on regular commissions with clients giving her free range to continue experimenting with colour and form, and has most enjoyed watching how people respond differently to her work at her exhibitions.
““My work is a reflection of the feelings and emotions which guide our lives in day to day life. Colour representing Emotion and composition encapsulating our experience in life and the nature of change.”
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““Sporadic, free willed and sensitive, just as human nature. Colour in my work reflects the nature of action and reaction.
Perhaps this creates an entrance, other individuals might find relatable, inspiring or comfortable upon sight which I hope gives a visceral insight to not my experience alone but into human nature. Which is something we all share”.”
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