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We Are The Ocean

We Are The Ocean celebrates multicultural women and their gift to foster life. Rivers run through them and together they form the ocean.

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As part of International Women Day 2022, this video and photo-drawing project was commissioned by the City of Hobsons Bay for the Laneway Gallery, Woods Street Arts Space.

 

Supported by Multicultural Women Victoria.

We Are The Ocean, at Wood Streets Arts Space, a commission from the City of Hobsons

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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