Visual self-exploration in drawings by Monica Rohan Monica...

Visual self-exploration in drawings by Monica Rohan

Monica Rohan is a 25-year-old Australian artist. A 2010 Honours Graduate from Queensland College of Art, Rohan’s work has already attracted significant interest. In 2012 she was a finalist in the James Kiwi Watercolour Prize (Wollongong City Gallery) and the same year her work was selected for the Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition at Griffith University Art Gallery.

Rohan’s use of the self-portrait is practical 
– her model is always available – yet is also relevant to the way she thinks about art. 

Each image is rendered in minute detail, with coloured and patterned forms undulating around the slightness of her figure, dwarfed within the picture plane. She describes the way she works as “a completely selfish absorption into the painting itself – meditative but also infuriating. It’s about feeling too much, or feeling like I feel too much, when even the most insignificant and ordinary moments flourish into an external struggle.” 

Rohan’s imagery may be an expression of the aloneness that is common in our increasingly fast-paced and technologically connected and overloaded lives. It is their delicate poignancy that draws the viewer into the rabbit hole of the artist’s imaginary world.  source artguide

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