By Ingrid Daniell
ARTIST STATEMENT
Ingrid Daniell is inspired by the landscapes that have shaped her life experience, particularly those in lutruwita / Tasmania.Through her recent body of work, Daniell strives to listen to the landscape and translate her experience into the dream-like and spiritual, imbuing them with a symbolic narrative that speaks to the deeper meanings they hold.
Daniell finds context in her painting by using the landscape as a metaphor for our fragile earth, the
devastation of climate change in Anthropocene and our continued human need to belong. Her paintings become a visual manifestation of experienced landscapes, the timeless nature of existence, highlighting the interconnectedness of life and the transient yet eternal presence of time.
“Time isnt deep, it is always already all around us. The past ghosts us, lies all about us less as layers, more as drift” quote from Underland by Robert Macfarlane ‘A deep time journey’.
Through her paintings, Daniell explores the concept of deep time, reflecting on the ways in which landscapes have been shaped and reshaped over millennia. Daniell also contemplates the concept that time drifts, while deep, it is ever present through the profoundly beautiful landscapes she encounters, drawing inspiration from Macfarlane’s quote; specifically, she reflects on the vast sand dunes and drifts of shells that generously weave along the East Coast of lutruwita (Tasmania), and how they represent time in motion, they move and shift with the tides, slowly yet surely turning over time into sand, they represent the constant of life and death and rebirth, evolution ... time, constant and moving... drifting.
BIO
Painter and visual artist, Ingrid Daniell, lives on the Surf Coast of Victoria, Australia, where the land and seascapes that surround her inspire her work. Places that are close to her life and experiences are never far from her paintings – the rugged Surf Coast and Great Ocean Road; remote Australia and its many national parks; the north and south east coasts of New South Wales and Tasmania.