Artworks are first available to purchase in person at the exhibition held from 4-10 Oct at King George Square.
Online sales will open following the exhibition.
Arielle Rose Hankinson is a Brisbane/Meanjin-based mixed media artist. From vibrant strokes of oil paint to intricate layers of digital collage, Arielle explores the kaleidoscopic landscape of her psyche and befriends its surreal inhabitants.
Arielle's practice is greatly influenced by Del Kathryn Barton's vibrant artworks, as she infuses hyperfeminine imagery with bursts of colour and patterns.
Despite challenges with fine motor skills due to an essential tremor, Arielle persists in her artmaking, adapting techniques to embrace her condition. As a person living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Arielle has always turned to art as a form of therapy. She is constantly amazed at its mystical ability to quell her inner turmoil.
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Fallout symbolises the post-apocalyptic sentiments of the COVID-19 era. The oil spill sky ominously bleeds into a river, prompting viewers to imagine a situation so catastrophic the sky and earth become undivided.
The lack of separation mirrors the fluidity of time during the quiet, isolated moments when we collectively lost track of its passage. The cat's skull blindly faces the audience beside two pillars of sand, the last bastions of three-dimensionality, before all melts into a 2D plane.