Lisa Banks 'Untitled (colour pulse)' mid century modernism

Lisa Banks 'Untitled (colour pulse)' mid century modernismLisa Banks is a Melbourne based artist who works across painting, drawing and mixed media collage. In her ever evolving artistic style, Banks often uses vibrant and contrasting colour to challenge traditional understandings of genre, drawing from her local and everyday life, and re imagining its artistic potential. In this pencil on paper work, Banks crafts a still life composition using a distinctly abstracted approach. Drawing inspiration from

With each work “an autonomous statement in visual art language”

Edition of 16

Edition of 45

‘This was my dream’ is a digital print

Alice Springs” Eric Thake 1946

The viewer’s sense of perspective is warped – are we looking down or across a ridge

and the jetty reference the Taronga Zoo Wharf

Cottage and Football

This work captures such a fusion

Like the flower itself

She seeks to reunite the viewer with the power of nature

Vella’s choice of composition appears at once intentional and accidental - both a captured scene of everyday life