My work Abudi Abode, which was inspired by the title/theme The Language Of Colour, is included in this exhibition. I love group exhibitions with a good theme; as a participant artist it makes you look at your work through a different lens, that can be real inspiring, and as a visitor of the exhibition it is interesting to see all the different interpretations of one and the same theme, it has the potential to stretch the mind.
Abudi Abode | series of mixed media sculpture; ceramics + textile art | individual sizes see below | October 2023
Colours teach us about variety. They teach us that in the right habitat all colours will be able to live and show their beauty. They teach us that connecting with other colours is what makes live interesting. A colour on its own is just that; a closed off colour, like a bell without its clapper, unable to ring. Place a colour amongst other colours and it starts vibrating on another level. It dances, it sings, it pops, it opens up and starts to speak. Colours coming together become resonating transmission towers ringing a beautiful language.
This series of works was created inspired by the theme ‘The Language of Colour’.
‘Abudi’ is an Arabic word and means ‘devotee’ or ‘devoted worshipper of God’. An abode is a dwelling place.
Diana van der Harst is a multidisciplinary artist whose journey has resulted in the creation of an ever evolving Leftover Universe where Tender Time Sighs. While she has a focus on textile art, she also uses painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography and writing to seek and tell her story. Her creations originate from a meeting between inner and outer travels, from studying things up-close to things far away, from observing the small to observing the vast; a process of constantly shifting focus, a movement much like breathing. Tender Time Sighs; breathing life into a Leftover Universe, showing us traces of transformation and encounters with animate and inanimate beings. Drawing from her own experiences, inspired by life itself, characters have developed who share their meetings and findings along the way. Diana’s work is poetic, contemporary, intuitive, contemplative, intimate, emotional, whimsical, spiritual, narrative and embodies a magical realism.
Diana was born and raised in The Netherlands before she moved to Australia. It is in The Netherlands where Diana had her main art education and where she started exhibiting her works back in 2004. During a masterclass in textile design in The Netherlands in 2007 she was invited to exhibit her art in Tokyo, Japan. Since that exhibition she had 4 solo exhibitions and several work periods in Kyoto, Japan. Exhibiting for nearly 20 years now she showed her works in The Netherlands, Antwerp/Belgium, Melbourne, Perth, Tokyo and Kyoto/Japan. Diana is now focusing on her upcoming solo exhibition, during which she will be giving workshops as well as undertake an artist-in-residency. She is one of the participating artists in her community that opens up her home studio for the public to come and visit, an initiative that is held two weekends a year as part of an Art Trail. Several other projects are in development and she is open for commissions.
Email: leftoveruniverse@gmail.com | Website: http://www.leftoveruniverse.com | Instagram: dhyana_in_a_leftover_universe
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