Skye Wallace
‘Self-Encounters’ 2025. Oil, pencil and burgundy primer on unstretched canvas, 210cm x 250cm.
Artist statement
My practice visualises psychological self-multiplicity through surrealist self-portraiture. Composing translucent fragments of myself co-existing within a visceral realm, I construct narratives that externalise internal encounters. These personal narratives explore the conflicting intrapsychic roles of each fragmented self, revealing the disturbed self-relationships that emerge and linger in the aftermath of trauma.
Through subtle modulation of tone and colour, the work reflects on how we reconstruct the past and the stories that water continues to hold.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
