Bravo Domino
Woodstock, 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
Height 76 cm x Width 51 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with certificate of authenticity
*Please note* This artwork comes unframed. Photos of the framed artwork are for demonstration purposes.
This piece is part of 'Synaesthesia', a series that explores the condition that causes sensory crossover, such as tasting colours or seeing sounds. It feels fitting to use nature as the subject when exploring the crossroad between art and music. Nature is visually rhythmic – across the melody line of a mountain ridge and through percussive trees. Despite feeding two different senses, music and art have many similarities. Not just in the way they are used to express creativity and emotion. They are both held under a lens for their details and nuances – or perhaps their intentional simplicity. They are both critiqued for their balance, harmony, rhythm, and flow. It is said the best melodies or chord progressions have a dissonance and resolution. I always try and incorporate moments of complexity and calmness, electricity and serenity, dissonance and resolution. 'Woodstock' is the final piece in this series - and the last time anyone has to suffer through me coming up with artwork titles that are both music and nature references!
Artist Bio: Bravo Domino is an expressionist and abstract artist from Sydney, of Filipino and Irish descent. Having been a hobbyist painter throughout her life, Bravo began painting full time two years ago, after stepping away from a career in music festivals and concert touring. Bravo is strongly influenced by street art, contemporary abstract landscapes, and neo-expressionism. She works primarily with acrylic, pastel and markers, dissecting surface and space with line work and a strong sense of colour. While focusing on landscapes and floral subject matter, her work features nostalgic graphic elements and patchwork-style layers that contribute to a strong, urban visual language. Each piece is a dynamic dichotomy of solid, block colours and heavily textured brush strokes that creates fluctuating moments of elation and serenity. Bravo is also a digital pattern designer for textile and graphic design. Using photographed details of her artworks, her prints are an electric blend of analogue textures and digital distortions. Similarly to her artwork, Bravo’s patterns are a kaleidoscope of hyper-colour geometric shapes with a neon, urban personality.