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DESCRIPTION
Oil, gold pigment and oil pastel on paper
21 x 29 cm
2025
These recent works mark an intimate dialogue between internal feeling and external conditions. Using oil paint, pastel, graphite, and the textured surfaces of rag paper and sandpaper, I work with raw materials to trace the entanglement of private states with social and environmental realities. Marks are layered, rubbed back, and re-inscribed, echoing both turbulence and endurance. By working directly with elemental materials—colour, grit, and texture—I seek to locate a space where the body’s internal rhythms meet the shifting forces of the world. The process becomes an act of reckoning: to trace, dissolve, and reform awareness in order to offer viewers a shared resonance of fragility, endurance, and possibility.
BIO
Briele Hansen is an Australian artist whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, moving image, installation, and performance. She explores the intersections of perception, environment, and relational experience, often using simple materials to create situations where presence and absence, the visible and invisible, intersect and transform. Her long-term study with artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky began in 1994 through their workshops and residencies. She received her Master of Arts by Research from RMIT University in 2004 and has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award. She was awarded the Australia Council Greene Street Residency in New York and has undertaken cultural exchanges in Italy, South Africa, and New Zealand.
Hansen lives and works in central Victoria.
DESCRIPTION
Oil, gold pigment and oil pastel on paper
21 x 29 cm
2025
These recent works mark an intimate dialogue between internal feeling and external conditions. Using oil paint, pastel, graphite, and the textured surfaces of rag paper and sandpaper, I work with raw materials to trace the entanglement of private states with social and environmental realities. Marks are layered, rubbed back, and re-inscribed, echoing both turbulence and endurance. By working directly with elemental materials—colour, grit, and texture—I seek to locate a space where the body’s internal rhythms meet the shifting forces of the world. The process becomes an act of reckoning: to trace, dissolve, and reform awareness in order to offer viewers a shared resonance of fragility, endurance, and possibility.
BIO
Briele Hansen is an Australian artist whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, moving image, installation, and performance. She explores the intersections of perception, environment, and relational experience, often using simple materials to create situations where presence and absence, the visible and invisible, intersect and transform. Her long-term study with artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky began in 1994 through their workshops and residencies. She received her Master of Arts by Research from RMIT University in 2004 and has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award. She was awarded the Australia Council Greene Street Residency in New York and has undertaken cultural exchanges in Italy, South Africa, and New Zealand.
Hansen lives and works in central Victoria.