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ARTIST STATEMENT

Liz Wickramasinghe’s richly layered paintings explore the landscapes, ecologies and
botanica of her local environments, such as Wetlands, coastal dunes, mountains, rock
formations, coastal reefs as well as other significant places she has visited throughout her
life. Her artwork often explores both the tension and interconnectedness between the
human-made and natural worlds.

Combining painting, masking and relief-printmaking techniques, Liz’s works explore layering, repetition, linework and pattern, reflecting the naturally occurring repetition and intricate patterns found within the landscape, alongside patterns and forms drawn from human-made environments, including textiles, design and elements of the built environment. Her compositions often simulate collaged imagery, incorporating both geometric and organic shapes and sections arranged around, on top of and underneath one another. A sense of play, curiosity and experimentation is central to her visual language, balancing an intuitive process of designing and arranging with spontaneity, trial and error.

Liz’s works shift between micro and macro perspectives, exploring both the vastness of
natural environments and their tiny, intricate details. Her fascination with the natural world
extends from expansive landscapes to intimate moments of discovering small, often
overlooked elements within them.

Through accumulation, concealment and discovery, imagery is built, obscured, revealed and reworked, creating richly textured surfaces that invite close observation, curiosity and
reflection on our experience of, and impact on, the natural world.

BIO

Liz Wickramasinghe is an artist based in Djilang/Geelong on Wadawurrung Country, working with a distinctive, multi-layered process that combines techniques from both painting and printmaking. She began developing this process while studying Fine Art at RMIT in 2008, for which she received a Dean’s List Award as well as an Academic Excellence Award. Liz also completed a Bachelor of Design (Honours) at Swinburne University in 2002, where she developed a strong interest in Japanese design and aesthetics.

After studying, Liz worked in private and state galleries and museums, including various archival and exhibition roles at the National Gallery of Victoria. She later worked as a secondary school teacher, specialising in visual arts. In 2013, Liz relocated from Melbourne to the Surf Coast with her husband and re-engaged with her art practice while raising her young sons, establishing her professional studio practice in 2019. Currently, Liz divides her time between her family, creative practice, teaching, and working as a Gallery Assistant at Boom Gallery. She has exhibited primarily with Boom Gallery since 2021.

Liz has work in private collections in Australia and abroad and has been a finalist for the St Columba’s Art Prize and Harden Landscape Prize in 2026, Corner Store Gallery’s Inside This Box Prize in 2024, and Brunswick Gallery’s Small Works Art Prize in 2021.