Emma Lyn Winkler
Fine Art BA Hons
MADA Monash University
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting
My location: Melbourne, Australia
Emma Lyn Winkler
First Name: Emma Lyn
Last Name: Winkler
University / College: MADA Monash University
Course / Program: Fine Art BA Hons
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting
My Location: Melbourne, Australia
Website: Click To See Website
About
Emma Lyn Winkler is a multidisciplinary artist working with a range of mediums including collage, painting and animation. Her practice works with ideas of death, absurdism and the unknown, drawing on fears and experiences growing up.
At the core of this exhibition is the question of how to deal with death as the ultimate, inevitable unknown, drawing on my fears, struggles with mental health conditions and experiences growing up. My work explores approaches to death, such as obsession, avoidance, catharsis and anxiety through large-scale, collage-based paintings and absurdist hand-painted animations. Informed by medieval references such as the ‘Danse Macabre’ and the symbolism of the spiral, this exhibition playfully acknowledges the futility of attempting to depict, avoid or even prepare for dying. The unique installation of these multimedia works opens up a rare and essential opportunity for conversation around death in a playful and accessible way. So, rather than shying away from death and increasing one's dread, this exhibition explores how reframing and embracing dying can be an antidote to anxiety.
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