Liz Wickramasinghe is a passionate and dedicated visual artist who responds to the natural world around her.
 

Liz’s practice is contemplative and sensitive to her subject matter. Through her dedicated, thorough studio processes she weaves and threads together elements of the environment into new cohesive landscapes. These resolved artworks are warm, tender and considered. Rock, Sky, Fossil is Liz Wickramasinghe’s fourth solo exhibition here at Boom. As a body of work, it perfectly captures the essence of her practice while hinting at her future directions.

ARTIST STATEMENT
 

Rock, Sky, Fossil explores the experience of observing the natural world, shifting between micro and macro perspectives – from plant structures and microscopic forms to geological strata, mountains, landforms and skies.

At the centre of the work is an interest in fossilisation: the slow process through which life is swallowed by the earth, becoming embedded within layers of sediment and rock. Rock, Sky, Fossil contemplates how the earth absorbs and archives life, preserving fragments of environments, ecologies and climates within its geological layers.
 

Liz’s multi-layered process of painting, lino printing and masking echoes this process of accumulation, burial and discovery. The compositions resemble collage, with fragments, patterns and forms layered, rearranged, obscured and revealed. Experimentation and play are central to the making process, allowing chance, unexpected printed impressions and intuitive decisions to shape each work. Rather than beginning with a fixed image, the compositions evolve through adding, covering, cutting and responding to what emerges.
 

Fossil-like forms, abstract patterns and geological structures intersect, inviting close observation, curiosity and reflection.

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.