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Rita Orsini
'Peaceful Luminance' (1, 2 and 3)
56 x 80cm
acrylic on canvas. LED lights, wooden frame
$3,750
Rita Orsini is a painter and object designer. In 2009, she
decided to push the boundaries of traditional painting into an exciting luminous form, and developed an original and innovative concept - the ‘Orsini Lights’, turning her paintings into functional artist-made lamps. When lit, the paintings provide another perspective of the same scenery. Rita explores the theme of light and transformation, as a reflection on identity, ecological and social narratives.
In this triptych, Rita depicts her local scene and the peacefulness provided by the Greenway in the middle of the city and under the magnificent inner-west skies. Her work features the cycle and walking paths, the local bird life (including the pied oystercatcher, a threatened species), the revegetation along the tram line (including the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark, listed as a Threatened Ecological Community), the 1920s Flour Mill transformed into a light-looking edifice, and the peaceful Cooks river in the distance.
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