Ana Young
Artist's Statement
Ana Young’s practice explores time, memory, and silence, offering a quiet counterpoint to contemporary life’s pace. Inspired by the Australian bush, her paintings emerge as contemplative responses rather than depictions, transforming experience into abstraction. Through layered compositions and diffused forms, colour and shape carry traces of emotion and memory, inviting the viewer to slow down and enter a suspended temporality. Painting becomes an act of reclaiming slowness, a space for reflection and respite, where fleeting fragments of time and feeling are given form and expanded beyond the canvas.
Biography
ANA YOUNG (b. 1948, Argentina/Australia) lives and works in Sydney, Australia (Cammeraygal land) and holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the Australian National University, Canberra, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney. Young has undertaken residencies across Australia and internationally, including the Hill End Artists in Residence Program (2002), Laughing Waters (2011), Bald Head Island, USA (2015), and North Sydney Council (2018–2021). A finalist in numerous major prizes including the Dobell Drawing Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Tom Bass Sculpture Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, and The Blake Prize, Young’s practice spans over two decades of sustained engagement with abstraction, landscape, and the poetic tension between silence and form. Her work has been exhibited widely across Australia and internationally and is held in public and private collections including the Mosman Art Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, and TWT Property Group.
