Summer Dreams by Willow Hart

Willow Hart is an emerging artist who graduated from the ANU School of Art in December 2004. On graduation, she received two Emerging Artist Awards and was approached for a further two exhibitions.
For her consistent high level of academic achievement, Willow was awarded lifetime membership to the International Golden Key Honours Society; a society for students in the top ten percent of the ANU.
Willow has taken up every opportunity made available to her. She has participated in an exchange program to the United Kingdom, receiving both scholarships and grants and has exhibited in numerous locations. She has recently completed a printing residency at Megalo Art Assess, where she has produced the majority of the works displayed in this exhibition.
Willow intends to continue to play an active role in the arts community.

Summer Dreams was born out of the artist´s exposure to the Spanish beach culture and comprises seventeen new textile works inspired in her travels through the country and some other pieces with the same inspirational theme.
Says Willow: “ Fictitious notions of tourism and the perfect beach, a calm, serene vista without people inspire me. I seek to capture this vision, together with the transience of people, who, even when they are no longer there, leave their imprint.
Abstract colour, layering, repetition and composition are central to my work, and combine with many techniques to create individual contemporary textiles”.