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Drawing and Painting

Miranda Elliott

Surface Study 1

Painting
2023
Oil on Canvas
10" x 10"
This is the first work in a series of small, detailed paintings of surfaces, which include stone, cement and lichen. Painted with care and employing traditional techniques, these objects are darkly luminous, mysterious and tactile. Despite their detailed nature, the surfaces I depict are intentionally difficult to identify; it is unclear whether they are living or inert. In this way, they exist somewhere on the border between life and death; a site of horror, but one that is also fertile, dynamic and deserving of care.

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Miranda Elliott

Drawing and Painting

“In my practice I engage with the ‘vital materiality’ of the inanimate world, and the porous intersection between living and non-living. In doing so I ask: “how do you find meaning in precariousness,...” [More]