Irene Grishin-Selzer is an Australian artist, based on Bunurong land. Her art practice engages with the notion of transience in nature, the shape of time and the sense of place. The natural world is seen as being in a state of flux with transformation and regeneration over the passage of time with all of its internal rhythms patterns and dislocations. Irene's practice spans ceramics, drawing, painting and photography. The ceramic work takes two separate, but interconnected forms. Firstly, clay tablet drawings and paintings, and secondly ceramic object-based pieces.
Clay tablets can be regarded as forms of abstracted cartography - a series of sprawling maps where we encounter pockets of energy, the movement of tides, botanical cues, electromagnetic waves and the build-up of deeply encrusted topographical layers. The object-based pieces may be thought of as individual points of focus, sandwiched cross-sections that pierce the surface or enigmatic relics and artefacts that carry the traces of ancient forms of spiritual energy.
Artist portrait by Selina Ou, image courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria.
