A bit Much, 2024

Exploring the physicality of paint this piece extends from the side of its frame with thick creamy paint. The luminous fragments of colour and silver shimmer emphasising the sense of wonder and play. The painting is made through a process based approach layering colours, textures, and marks to discover its resolve. The brushstrokes show the hand of the maker and the gliding paint expresses movement and change.

Australian artist Odessa Mahony -de Vries, is propelled by the materiality of paint and colour, channeling them into an active exploration of process. Odessa works quickly and engages in immediate responses, navigating the interplay of painterly gestures and dynamic compositions to find resolve. She creates boundaries within the canvas, but later dismantles them by extending the paint and blurring lines.

Her artworks are loud and large scale 2D paintings on canvas, luminous digital works, and ceramic sculptures. The sculptures directly derive from her paintings and showcase the malleability of the material, creating spatial dialogues within the artwork. They extend from the clay body, embodying abstraction and the negotiation between maker and material.