Youth is like Diamonds
Melissa Elliot 20 January to 26 February 2012 Umbrella Studio contemporary arts
Youth is like Diamonds is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and objects that explore traumatic loss and the sense of self. The works integrate the need for reparation after trauma and highlight the positive influence that creativity has in self-awareness and the reparation of emotion, through expressive painting and drawing techniques. Several bodies have formed amongst these works. Identity, memory ct life and relationship, and e together to form a distin com rks wo nce bra em rem memorial and cide several years t her younger brother to sui story of the artist who los periences with life has changed and her ex r he ys wa the res plo ex ago. She d love through her art. loss, memory, childhood an d rapy Melissa Elliot has use A strong believer in art the d an s, los c ati her own traum her creativity to deal with ng ali ates an associative he in turn hopes that this cre viewer. and understanding in the y street art Melissa’s Influenced by contemporar vide an emotional vibrant acrylic paintings pro r life. and direct experience of he
2011, Front: childhood dreams, cm 120 91x f, md acrylic on k, Above Left: self portrait bac and al rco cha , 2011, acrylic cm spray paint on mdf, 91x120 Above: losing down, 2010, rcoal acrylic spray paint and cha on canvas Right: memorials, 2010, paint charcoal, acrylic and spray on canvas, 90 x 120 cm the tail, 2010, Back: swinging the cat by paint on canvas acrylic, charcoal and spray
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