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Track Gallery Melbourne

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Connecting Through Ceramic

Connecting Through Ceramic is an exhibition of the works of Leila Ashtiani, Humaira Fayazi and Sofie Dieu. Photos and clay masks explore what it means to be an Afghan woman refugee in the City of Casey, while flora and fauna ceramics look at the journey of multicultural women living in Monash.

This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the City of Monash.

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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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