Collection: Andre De Vanny

@andredevanny

www.andredevanny.com

Andre is a multidisciplinary visual and performing artist based in Eora/Sydney. His work spans a variety of media, predominantly focusing on the intersection of painting and sculpture. Drawing from the ethereal qualities of early renaissance painting, and expanding upon the rich visual language of contemporary abstraction, Andre's work traces a delicate hinge between the abject and the sublime. His practice incorporates cycles of disintegration and repair which speak to the human experience of trauma and healing, love, loss and longing. Working outdoors with the natural elements his process based practice encompasses scoring, staining and folding, stitching, sanding and stapling a range of materials from fine linens to heavy gauge canvas and reclaimed timbers. Prioritising spontaneity and chance over the predetermination of imagery and ideas, he seeks to discover new forms, organic shapes and original compositions which reveal themselves, as if by nature, free from the artist’s hand.