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AMAnDA vAn gILS | AUsTrAliA
www.amandavangils.com
My work aims to engage with the longstanding tradition of Australian own space. In doing this, I have experimented with juxtaposing elements
landscape painting yet offer a contemporary take on the genre. Through in unexpected settings to invert traditional notions of perspective and
my work I aim to explore our dynamic psychological relationship to the perception. The landscapes in my works are not grand landscapes,
world around us. In the past I have explored the idea of people’s place in they are small and familiar; these places are part of our everyday lives
the environment through various permutations, primarily: the absence and they inform our understanding of the world. My paintings share
of people, people disconnected from the landscape, and moments their quietness, yet I draw on the unpredictable and the anomalous to
observing others (most often children) at imaginative play creating their explore how we respond to them.
Free from gravity - a Swimming Pool (remembered), granting the
| BoUnCe, 2005 oil on linen 30x24 in. | 77x 61Cm. ability to drift and fly, undefined by the burden of reality. Freedom
| wresTlinG The wildliFe, 2005 oil on linen 40x30 in. | 102x77 Cm. to create the world.
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