Artist Name: KELLIE NORTH
Artwork Title: THE LOST GIRL
Medium: Photography digital art
Size: 75 x 75cm
About the Artist:
Kellie is an award-winning photographer and visual artist with a deep desire to connect to nature, to her audience and to herself. She plays with the landscape, light, movement and nature, to create evocative figurative images, that are connected to the sub conscious and are deeply engaging.
Kellie moves with practiced precision, working silently, listening to nature and to her own internal landscape. She was drawn intuitively to this rock, this landscape. She senses something here that resonates with a feeling bubbling to the surface of her mind, an emotion that signals a truth within her. She hopes to capture the moment so she can portray it as a visual story as fully as she experiences it, here and now.
Flowing through a series of poses, in this moment, she is of the earth, she is an expression of the nature we see around us. Through her musings Kellie is unearthing understandings about nature and our relationship to it, the self, and the female experience and form. Shot by shot, each new insight is exposed.
Kellie is at home here, in her body, cradled as she is by the land. Later, she is just as at home in her studio selecting images, building up layers, playing with colour and light, and striving for an image that reflects that which first captured her months before.
In the completed piece, Kellie sees her ideas resolve. Through her art, she invites us to discover something about ourselves that we had perhaps not previously known or recognise we have lost.
In this way, Kellie’s art resonates below our skin, her images thrum in the core of our chest like a heartbeat. “Remember…” they tell us, “Remember your strength, your heart, your connection, your humanity.” And with carefully choreographed movement and with waves of colour and light, she shows us all that she has uncovered.
Artist Statement:
In Far North Queensland I visited the beautiful and remote area of Elim Beach (Thiithaarr) on Guugu Yimithirr country, a tribal nation stretching from River Annan, south of Cooktown, to Princess Charlotte Bay in the north. This piece, one, in a body of work, resulted from the deep connection I felt while standing among the richly coloured sandstone cliffs.
