Linville, Queensland, Australia
Grace Lila is a connoisseur of translating emotional energies into expressive forms on canvas.
Her compositions are personal, yet also familiar, as she channels her innermost prevalent thoughts and past traumas into sensitive and telling identities for all to see.
Inspired by S O C I E T Y
Artworks: 16
Australian artist Grace Lila paints self-portraits and domestic scenes that explore themes of family, childhood, and body image. Mirroring the complexity of her emotions, she applies layer after layer of acrylic paint and charcoal, using paintbrushes, but also different objects like wooden sticks and pieces of wire. As an adopted child, Lila has always felt the pangs of separation from her biological family, even more so after the suicide of her adoptive father.
Lila seeks to rebuild the umbilical cord that was so abruptly severed in her infancy. As such, she constructs the imaginary life she has never had: her mother’s caresses, an afternoon by the pool with her siblings, a girl flying a kite by the beach. Yet there is always a shadow over the idyll. The children have dark rings around their deep-seated eyes, signifying that the scars of the past cannot be entirely effaced.
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