ARTWORK DETAILS

Alex Balestrieri Tropical North Learning Academy - Smithfield State High School
Faded World
3 textured mixed media panels, each of neutral colours depicting patterns of topography and shorelines

ARTIST STATEMENT

As human influences on the environment continue, we begin to irreversibly drain the life from effected areas. Colour fades but beauty doesn’t. Beauty will find its way into everything, but the context of the beauty will change our emotional response. Feeling distraught, the audience may begin to question their views on environmental issues, seeing some landscapes, not so different from their own, completely devoid of life and colour. While this work is personal to the artist and where they live, the feeling of not knowing when something will no longer be around is one everyone is familiar with.

ARTWORK PROCESS

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alex Balestrieri