Diana Ellinger

Diana Ellinger is an Australian multidisciplinary artist based in Mumbai. An experienced designer, she has worked for a variety of clients, large and small since graduating from RMIT University’s Communication Design Honours degree in 2004. With a trained eye for typography, colour and layout, Diana has created a plethora of brand identities, publications and illustration across both print and digital platforms, for a variety of clients. During these years as a designer, Diana has always leant towards the arts, so in 2009 she complemented her honours degree with a Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts from the Australian National University, Canberra.

The body of work showcased here is a selection of painted and paper works from her Relics series exhibited at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in 2016. Diana’s paintings can be seen as a response to the world, a re-ordering of memory, images, peripheries of old illustrations, lost pixels, the trailing edge of fabric, a discarded toy. Old things. In these, Diana finds a lingering promise, they give back to you a value roughly equivalent to the time taken to deliberately notice them.

Bleached, saturated, uncomfortable, just a little bit tired. The works tread a delicate line between beauty and ugliness. They are experiments in how colour, lines and shapes fall together. That they exist at all, their furry, glitched, obsolete painterly surfaces exposed by the light of contemporary, digital existence is absurd. But for Diana, painting is a pause. A way of noticing discarded details. A means to impart slowness.

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Portfolio: https://dianaellinger.com/
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