ALEKSANDRA ANTIC

Aleksandra’s creative practice demonstrates an expressive and intuitive approach to painting and drawing and is broadly revolving around ideas of isolation, nonconformity and escapism. She employs drawing and collage as a grounding base in the search for symbolic imagery.

In her recent work, forest landscape is being used as a setting for numerous adventures of a small creature, a misfit:
“Forest landscape, without being vast, induces a feeling of smallness and solitude. The trees are anthropomorphic: they stand as a separate culture, as a population that in some ways alludes to human society. I am interested in using this quality to reinforce the awkwardness of the figure I am placing in the landscape and to play with the notion that the ‘outcast’ may fit in with the obscurity of the woods.”

Aleksandra was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She was originally trained in industrial design but later on graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Belgrade University of Applied Arts (1997), majoring in painting. In 2004 she immigrated to Australia, where she continues to exhibit regularly. Aleksandra’s work resides in private collections throughout Europe and Australia.