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Biography
Joanna Buckley
Joanna Buckley is an Australian, Melbourne-based artist with origins in the Northern Territory. Her art practice spans sculpture, painting and site-specific installation, grounded in minimal abstraction and an interconnected relationship with nature. Buckley’s work emphasises transformation of environmental elements, materiality, space and light, with sensitivity to viewer experience and site context. Her work approaches emotionally connected and embodied states of consciousness - such as love - not through representation, but as condition that may be accessed through perception. Scale and material presence envelop the viewer within a field of sensory vastness, where expansion becomes intimate. Transformative revelation is sought through permeation and an alchemy of perception: reimagining the sublime awe of historical abstraction with tenderness, perceptual sensitivity, relational interconnectedness and presence. Buckley holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, a Master of Art (Art in Public Space) from RMIT, and Bachelor of Built Environment (Industrial Design) from Queensland University of Technology. She has exhibited at the Abbotsford Convent, the Chinese Museum Melbourne, Craft Victoria, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venice and ECNU Shanghai World Expo 2010. She has undertaken various commissions and is represented in private collections in Australia and Europe. Joanna Buckley is an associate member of Artery Cooperative Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.
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Works
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Oculus, 2023
Acrylic, mirror film and stainless steel
211.5 x 250 x 85cm
Image courtesy of the artist.
In collaboration with psychological scientist Rebekah Street | Seed Project for Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research.
Acrylic donated by Jeph Neale. Production assistance by Jeph Neale.
Proudly Supported by:
NotFair Art Foundation
info@notfair.com.au