Art Hound

These large-scale paintings are by Melbourne-based artist Miranda Skoczek from her new show Fragments and Fantasy at Arthouse. Contrary to popular belief abstract art is tough to crack. In lieu of subjects or themes, abstract art often relies on the viewer’s familiarity of the canon of Art That Has Come Before, and that can make it a real effort to approach. Furthermore when seemingly everything has already been done or said, the question is, how can artists make abstract art their own?

I love what Arthouse had to say about Miranda’s work: “Skoczek’s paintings are not preoccupied with the web of politics or conceptualism that mires so much contemporary art; rather, they center on the pure physicality and alchemy of painting… ‘Fragments and Fantasy’ represents a fusion of everyday life with whimsy, decoration and symbolism, the works metonymically acting as material fragments of the artist’s mind.”

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