Tiarna Herczeg

Says Tiarna Herczeg of this work, "This artwork refers to a place I see in my mind. I cannot fully grasp it. I see myself as the sun goes down, barefoot walking through wet bush until I reach sand. The space in the centre is flat, blank, and pink because I cannot see it."

"This body of work arrived at a moment of transition for myself. As the season changes, I've reflected on the many challenges I've faced this year and how they have pushed me more into myself. My family left Sydney and moved to Queensland to care for my now late Grandmother, Lynette. Her progression into the dreaming has left a big imprint on my life. My connection to her, although not directly depicted is implied through the making of these works; memories, colours, shapes. A lot of these works come from dreams, some places I know and some places I can't fully grasp. Others are from memory. Sometimes its hard to tell them apart. Like they exist together and inform each other.

"The flowers repeated in the two works ('My Dreams Led me Here' and 'Warmed Fruits') resemble life continuing. It comes from a pattern I have painted before. Only this time I made the time to sit with it further. I laboured over it, over a period of weeks. Tracing around every mark, pulling me and the viewer into the darkness, just as much as the light, creating balance".