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Magick Plants

Magick Plants is an exhibition that showcases 3 weeks worth of research on native plants in Albany, Western Australia, as part of a residency supported by the Vancouver Arts Centre. 

This residency and exhibition coincides with Inktober, a worldwide ink painting challenge where artists create one ink work a day for the duration of October. This is the third year Sofie Dieu takes part in this challenge and this year her focus was on native plants that are endemic to the bay area. To further her understanding of the place she was creating from, she also met with Larry and Venice from Kurrah Mia.

The exhibition was created in reaction to an extremely racist poem found during the residency. It acknowledges the artist's appreciation of the Noongar Country, its native plants and culture.

This video includes an audio with subtitle transcript of a note the artist left for visitors. 

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Born in France, Sofie Dieu’s first encounter with art was through church. With a penchant for ritual and spirituality, the artist is best known for her fragile, sombre, and sometimes violent ink paintings and textile works.

 

Poetic and humanist, her practice draws on her journeys to China and Australia. She explores how identity and memory fluctuate according to their immediate environment. Landscapes, people, secrecy, healing, and the dichotomy between light and darkness are some of her recurring themes.

  

Multi-art prizes and award finalist, her work was included in the Sydney North Art Prize, Waterhouse Natural Science prize and the Contemporary Art Award amongst others. In 2016, she worked on the Camperdown Cemetery installation for Sydney Biennale. In 2017, her work will be shown during Vivid and Mental Health Month in Sydney.

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