Local artist Liz Wickramasinghe returns to Boom for her third solo exhibition Shiftscapes. This new body of work continues her exploration of the natural landscape and meticulous approach to making - building up the artwork surfaces layer by layer to create beautifully balanced paintings. 

Liz's exhibition will be hung in our black gallery space to emphasise the vibrancy of these works. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

In this series of paintings, Liz Wickramasinghe draws inspiration from the grassy, inner-coastal, wetland landscapes of Wadawurrung country, particularly the environment surrounding her home near the Surf Coast of Victoria. These landscapes, brackish floodplain zones of the Lake Connewarre and Barwon River systems, are populated with vast native grasslands and provide a rich ecosystem of plant and animal life. Through the interweaving of pattern, line, and repetition, she seeks to capture the complexities of the ecologies within her landscape compositions. In this series, the smaller paintings are like close-up views that explore abstract playfulness with natural patterns and textures, drawing on influences from surface design and textiles.
 

Wickramasinghe’s art-making combines various processes, including painting, masking, and relief-printmaking techniques, to create richly layered surfaces and textures reminiscent of those found in nature. The sectional divides and colour shifts in these pieces symbolise the natural changes occurring within the landscapes, such as variations in sunlight, plant cycles, seasonal transitions, and other natural rhythms. These transitional changes also reflect the evolving shifts within Wickramasinghe’s own artistic practice, illustrating her ongoing refinement of focus and process.

BIO

Liz Wickramasinghe is an artist based on Wadawurrung Country, Geelong, Victoria. After completing a degree in interior/exhibition design, Wickramasinghe went on to complete a second degree in fine art, where she developed her unique process of creating multi-layered artworks that combine both painting and printmaking. Following a period of teaching art and working at the NGV, she moved to Geelong and started a family. Since 2019, she has been practicing as an artist and has since exhibited her work in galleries across Victoria and NSW. Wickramasinghe divides her time between her studio practice, art teaching and working as a gallery assistant at Boom Gallery. She lives in Armstrong Creek, Victoria, with her husband, two children and two dogs.