Imbi Davidson
b. 1978, Adelaide, South Australia
Lives and works in Corndale, NSW
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Imbi Davidson, Artist Portrait, 2021
Imbi Davidson is a visual artist living in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales. Her work explores the interstices between painting, landscape, plants, textiles, abstraction and mark making.
Imbi's work is largely inspired by the experience and memory of the Australian landscape, finding expression in its myriad forms, patterns, patinas, contours and colours. Her abstract paintings are intuitive responses to these multiple elements, overlaid with juxtapositions of opaque and translucent layers, interspersed with expressive marks of wild colours.
Working with a range of mixed media from blood, rock, earth, pigment, paint, water and plants, Imbi is fascinated with found objects and paints on recycled objects, canvases, boards and surfaces.
Imbi was awarded an Australian Post Graduate Award to complete her Masters of Visual Arts, researching the art of native plants in Australia, with a focus on Indigenous and abstract representations of plants and the landscape. Her MA Thesis, The Casuarina Tree - Visual Translations of Native Plants and Art in Australia (2012), is catalogued in the National Library of Australia. Imbi was awarded an Australia Council Emerging Artist Mentorship Grant, to work with artist/ mentor India Flint.
Read In The Wind, an exhibition text for Imbi Davidson Chaos Theory, 2021
Imbi Davidson, Bedrock, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on board, 140 x 120cm
Imbi Davidson, Ophiuchus, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on board, 140 x 120cm
Imbi Davidson, Flight, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on board, 100 x 122cm
Imbi Davidson, Camouflage, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on board, 100 x 122cm
Imbi Davidson, Phosphene, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on board, 100 x 122cm
Imbi Davidson, Key Stone, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on board, 100 x 122cm
Imbi Davidson, House of Cards, 2022, Jennings Kerr, Exhibition view Ashley Mackevicius
Passage, 2022, recycled paint on board, 104 x 120cm
Portal, 2022, recycled paint on board, 104 x 120cm
House Of Cards, 2022, Jennings Kerr, Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius
Imbi Davidson, studio documentation, 2021
Social Anxiety, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Birthing Mother, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Creation Story, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Studio documentation, 2021
Yellow Brick Road, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm (detail)
Yellow Brick Road, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
'In the studio, I allow the work to unfold unconsciously in a furious, emotive and sometimes hectic manner, riding the fine line between complete chaos and intuitive order. Often the works are mysterious and I feel like there is no control, yet upon reflection, clarity and cohesion emerge in unpredictable shapes and forms. It is a strange alchemy and beautiful chaos.”
Imbi Davidson, 2021
Red Sonja, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Wild Fires & Silent Sex Crimes, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
The Butterfly Effect, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Grabbed by the Pussy, 2021, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Imbi Davidson, Chaos Theory, 2021, Exhibition views, Photography by Ashley Mackevicius
