The timed auction ends Thursday July 23rd at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Prudence Coburn
Room To Move, Not to Grow, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, framed
Height 105 cm x Width 79 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $2,300
This painting explores the concept of potential constrained and how perception changes when something powerful is removed from its natural environment and placed within unnatural boundaries. This shift in context reframes the shark not as a predator, but as something limited and fragile.
The box (confines of the canvas edges) represents the boundaries placed around identity and creativity. Within this confined space, there is enough room to move, but none to grow. At times we find ourselves creating for the sake of others, however over time this becomes restrictive. The work becomes a metaphor for the self: still whole, still capable, but stifled by imposed limitations.
Artist Bio: Living on the Australian coastline, Prudence finds inspiration from our remarkable wildlife. She is a passionate longboard surfer, beginner free diver and finds her close connection with the ocean is what drives her to create and share.
Her art practice explores themes of calm, solitude, depth, collaboration, vastness, warmth, beauty, strength and vulnerability.