The timed auction ends Thursday July 23rd at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Shane Bonsujet
Blood ties, 2025
Oil on canvas
Height 100 cm x Width 150 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $1,800
Blood Ties is an exploration of inheritance—of the unseen threads that connect us to family, memory, and the histories we carry within us. Rather than illustrating these relationships directly, I wanted to create a landscape of emotion where connection exists as an instinct rather than a narrative.
Organic forms flow across the surface, intertwining and resisting one another, echoing the way relationships evolve through love, conflict, obligation, and resilience. The deep red circular form acts as both an origin and a pulse, suggesting blood as a symbol of lineage, life, and shared experience. Around it, fractured spaces and shifting colours speak to the complexity of identity—how we are continually shaped by what we inherit while searching for what belongs uniquely to us.
The painting embraces ambiguity, allowing viewers to find echoes of their own histories within its forms. Blood Ties is not simply about family; it is about the invisible forces that bind us to one another, reminding us that even as we grow in different directions, we remain connected by stories, memories, and the enduring traces of those who came before us.
Artist Bio: Shane Bonsujet is a visual artist based and working out of his studio in Melbourne.
Shanes art often draws on lived experiences and memories that explore themes of psychology, growth, empowerment and discovery forming a deep connection with viewers.
Emotive, expressive, intuitive and playful, Shane's paintings are inspired by many influences such as the natural world, existentialism and philosophy that create a balance and duality between depth in concept and naïve appearance. Bold colours and expressive brushwork create an open dancefloor for curious mark making, patterns, naïve characters, symbols and motifs that balance abstraction and various other styles and references.
Shanes paintings are held in public and private collections all over the country and internationally, and has been a finalist in various notable art prizes such as the Blacktown art prize, Fishers Ghost art prize, Hawkesbury art prize, Lethbridge 10,000 and exhibited in several exhibitions, group shows and art fairs.