Artist's Statement

Liliana Pasalic is a multimodal artist based on Kaurna Country/Adelaide, working across painting, textiles, sculpture, photography, and drawing. Through fierce experimentation and the collision of diverse techniques, her practice investigates metaphysical and philosophical relationships between humans and their environments — both architectural and natural. She has a background in industrial design that has organically shifted into a full-time art practice over the past decade.
Centring on painting and tapestry, her work draws from nature and architecture, blurring the boundaries between these intertwined worlds. Operating between abstraction and figuration, she references art history, unseen worlds, identity, the subconscious, human relationships, and iconography, infused with her individual outlook as both creator and spectator.

For Pasalic, responding to the work as it evolves is more important than following a fixed idea from start to finish. Through unconventional materials, she continually redefines the boundaries of painting. The tactile texture of tapestry — woven from Australian wool — invites a dynamic, sensorial engagement. Using a lexicon of forms and symbols across varied techniques, she challenges the apparatus of art-making itself. Tapestry becomes a form of painting, with free drawing with tapestry guns, patches of colour added where needed and yarn colours mixed in a pointillist manner, creating layered frames
within frames.

Pasalic’s work emphasises the interconnectedness of life, combining materials from tapestry and marble to spray paint and mirrors to weave a story of contrasts, tension, unity and balance. She translates the abstract into vivid, tangible expressions, offering an acute yet hopeful perspective on contemporary art.