Southern Highlands Printmakers

Britta Stenmanns

My travels between Australia and Mexico produced a body of work called "Symbolic Topographies" in which I developed a kind of personal iconography based on Mexican themes in combination with a response to the traditions in Indigenous Australian Art of reading narrative through topographical representations.

My recent work explores these experiences by investigating the emotive power of movement and the way in which symbols can be used to generate both personal and social narratives. The painting and printing depict place through topographic representations which also attempt to symbolise and evoke the emotional state of mind involved in the process of making. These responses to place and process create their own rhythm resulting in a meditative conclusion.

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