Melinda Schawel
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Melinda Schawel’s art practice is a personal and emotional response to phenomena occurring in nature, as well as meditations on the nature of paper itself. Working with a thick 640gsm paper, she drills and tears into the medium with a scalpel and peels it back to create abstract shapes and textures revealing different aspects of the paper’s persona. Drawing ink and fluid acrylics are poured and painted on sections of the torn and perforated paper, creating dynamic interplays between colour and form.

Her practice explores the resilience of fragile ecosystems, which are under threat by both natural and human made events but still able to flourish despite the harshest of conditions.