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ARTIST STATEMENT


Liz Wickramasinghe’s richly layered paintings explore the landscapes, ecologies and botanica from her local environments of the Wadawurrung, Gulidjan and Gaduband countries of the Bellarine, Surf Coast and Otway regions of Victoria, as well other significant places she has visited throughout her life. Early memories of making things such as textiles, sewing and collage have strongly informed her process-based approach in making her works.

By combining a range of painting, masking and relief-printmaking techniques, Liz’s works explore layering, repetition, linework and pattern. This approach allows Liz to explore naturally occurring repetition and pattern found in the landscapes, highlighting the parallels with her love of weaving, patchwork and collaged imagery. Liz has created her own visual language to represent these similarities, resulting in richly textured surfaces.
Her more recent, larger scaled works attempt to be more immersive by capturing a sense the movement within a landscape to portray a sense of wonderment of these natural places.

BIO


Liz Wickramasinghe is an artist who lives and works on Wadawurrung Country, in Greater Geelong, Victoria. After first completing a degree in interior design, Liz went on to complete qualifications in visual art and fine art where she developed her unique process of creating multi-layered artworks by combining both disciplines of painting and printmaking.

Liz has worked as an exhibition technician at the National Gallery of Victoria and as a secondary school art teacher in Melbourne. She plans to continue her visual art teaching at TAFE level in the near future. Liz has been practicing her art professionally for five years and has been exhibiting with Boom Gallery since 2021.