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VCA Art 2023

Bella Howison

My practice traverses the landscape of memory and how land is remembered over time. I engage in unconventional ways of mapping land to navigate the threshold between memory and materiality. Working with various forms of mark-making, I whittle down a memory to an essential surface through the use of site-specific materials, abstraction, and static fluids. I employ an intuitive, gestural process that allows me to draw parallels between working and reworking, and remembering and re-remembering. These techniques result in an accumulation of composite landscapes and mappings of memory.

Bella Howison, bila (river), Ground, oil stick, acrylic. Image Courtesy the University of Melbourne.

Bella Howison, bila (river), Ground, oil stick, acrylic. Image Courtesy the University of Melbourne.

Bella Howison, biyal (river red gum), ground, oil stick, acrylic, 2023

Bella Howison, biyal (river red gum), ground, oil stick, acrylic, 2023

Bella Howison, convergence, etching, 2022

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)
Victorian College of the Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne
PRV12150 / CRICOS: 00116K