Collection: Lara Feller

@Larafeller.art

Lara feller, born in 2002, is a Sydney Based artist and current graduate of the national art school, who works primarily in the medium of oil paint. Her current work focuses of themes of clutter, mess, and anxiety through a contemporary depiction of the still life as a condensed image that largely features drapery. Lara’s work is primarily based on her own experiences of mess and clutter both in her physical and mental space as well as the way these two spaces relate and exacerbate the anxiety within them.

Lara has found ways of creating art since birth and has often been fascinated by representing what surrounds her, hence her early fascination with still lives, both how objects carry meaning and how assemblages of objects are altered through their representation in paint. This has evolved from a compulsive use of realism and small scale as a means of controlling paint, to what is now a deliberate choice to use such a small scale and realistic representation to depict the intimacy yet noise of a cluttered mind, with occasional large scale when representing the gravitas and surreal nature of drapery.

Lara finds satisfaction presenting the concentrated collections of possessions as they are emblematic of an external manifestation of an internal anxiousness and cluttered mind.