In her graphite drawings and paintings, Catriona Secker finds inspiration in biology textbooks and retro natural history. Especially in the drawings above, the artist says she found inspiration in the reproductive system of cockroaches. Secker’s works have been exhibited in Hong Kong and beyond in Australia, and are located in Sydney.
“Biology and cell cultures seem to give life to her soft creatures,” the Concrete Playground said. “One black and white image is covered in eyes, while in another, two sharp-faceted viruses menace an embryo in a bucolic collection of seaweeds and nematode plants. The embryo is not sleeping. Her coloured works are bloodier. Though none of them are cut open, each image pulses with the fragile blood of embryonic vessels: fragile, transparent, visceral. She combines the plant with the animal: flowering engorged Fronds, tentacles and sandwich internal organs.”
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