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Memento Mori

Memento Mori

A memento mori is an artwork or symbol that prompts reflection on mortality and the fleeting nature of human life. The latin translates to “remember you must die.”

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Oranges

Nikki Maloof injects vibrating visual patterns into her charming yet macabre domestic scene, Oranges. The artist has a tongue in cheek approach to memento mori – a traditional motif in still life that symbolises mortality.The original large scale artwork has been reprised as a multi layered print. Each unique edition is finished with hand collaged fish, gouache and coloured pencil to blend her collaging language with the print."I never go overboard on being precise. I think it's what makes my form of patterning feel like my own."

Oranges

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Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.
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