Colleen Southwell, Heart Strings: Storyland, 2024

Paper Sculpture – paper, pigment, watercolour, vintage textile, wire, framed in lined Australian oak behind museum glass, 54 x 44 x 6cm.

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Artist Colleen Southwell is inspired by nature, both wild and cultivated. Reverent, ethereal and fragile, her paper sculpture invites the viewer to pause to engage and connect. Her meticulous art making process requires her to do the same, both in the field and in the studio; by its pure nature her work cannot be rushed.

Colleen’s three-dimensional pieces reflect botanical, entomological and ornithological elements. Each is a compilation of patterns and forms noticed in her daily interaction with the garden and rural landscape, expressed in a delicate combination of drawing in pigment, watercolour, fine gauge wire, gently manipulated paper and occasional found materials.

Her fragile works are mounted using entomology pins, alluding to scientific specimens intended for preservation and study. Each element appears to float, employing shadow as an ephemeral feature of the work, while making reference to the transient nature of the subjects themselves.

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