Description
Instinctive: Self-Preservation by Liz Gridley
Artist: Liz Gridley
Title: ‘Instinctive: Self-Preservation’
Medium: Oil on aluminium composite panel
Dimensions: 6″ x 6″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
Flight: risk, falling and rising, ease and effort.
How do you navigate the intricacies of life and movement, how do you protect what makes you, you? The cockatoo’s crest glows despite the flicker moment of hiding beneath its wings mid flight, she sees you looking but her journey continues.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Liz Gridley’s work centers on her experiences of states of hyper-emotion where distress arises from overstimulation. The personal inevitability of death & death care is a point in which dialogue can be culturally celebrated or silenced. Here Gridley’s experience with hyper-emotion makes room for conversation that is often taken for granted or pushed aside as taboo. Through contemporary figurative oil paintings Gridley reflects her internal states and connects viscerally with the viewer.
In 2024, Gridley was awarded a place in the “Victorian Artists Society Coterie” sponsored by the Hansen Little Foundation. She currently has works available in Australia and internationally.