Hiranya

My Polkadot Summer Dress

79 × 104 cm

Acrylics, Ink on canvas

Unsold

Suggested offer$2,200

Still available. Enquire by Mon 16 Nov, 8pm AEDT.

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About the work

Summer is the season I let myself go wild and free.

About the artist

Hiranya is a classical figurative artist from Brisbane. She exclusively produces works derived from memories and experiences through various reflexions of expressive gestures.

Her ongoing abstract portrait series 'Tearoom' has started based on a personal fascination for culture and flavour, then eventually moved to a level of inspirations by the fluidity of the body movements and personal story telling. Vibrant stripes & romantic symbolism on the subject is a focus point. Starting from simpler-minimal story to sophisticated tales with artist's personal favourites - colourful tea cups, tea pots and many flowers. The borrowed elegance and aesthetics from 18th century Victorian era has elevated the overall visual presentation.

This series has quickly become collector's favourite with over 300 original works sold worldwide. The success of the series has opened paths to the artist to explore new ideas for new series of work.

Each painting takes its own significant time to render based on the amount of details going in. The beauty aspect of each work is extremely important to the artist. Hence they are carefully realised. The stories the artist wishes to discuss, sustain their own historical and artistic values.

Growing up in an environment which was diversely influenced by ethnic values, made her realise that womanhood plays a significant role in actualising any story. With this mindfulness, her narrative figure becomes an independent female identity who establishes a healing space for her existence. This subject is maybe a hybridised form of a being who represents power, beauty, fragility, sexuality and vulnerability.

In a world with a manufactured happiness where everything is valued by materialistic worth, the artist explores real human connections, emotions and devotions which are withering away. Focusing on this very thought, she believes her female protagonist has become a creator of a profound human connection and a communicator of emotions. The imagery she uses, show a strong influence from the ancient Indo-Aryan painting techniques which she studied in detail and the classical figure studies found in cave temples, frescoes and monastery walls where she grew up. Bold colours and symbolism are a focus point. It maybe a direct reflection of her training in local art school and the ethnic environment she was exposed to.

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