Claudia Bagnall

Froze up inside

2023 Oil on timber board 200 x 250 mm

Claudia Bagnall is a multi disciplinary artist from Sydney, Eora. She graduated from UNSW Art & Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture, Performance and Installation. Following her studies she undertook a 4-month artist residency in Alice Springs in 2013, during this residency she turned to painting. She has since continued her practice in shared studios in the Inner West of Sydney, where she lives. Claudia’s paintings are generously raw in their abstraction. Through gesture and colour she is developing a way to say something as simply as possible, in paint. Her paintings behave like sculptures, in their experiments of material and form. The surface is built with expansive swathes of paint and mark making that is both measured and wildly uninhibited. The brush strokes move from light and playful - as if carried by the wind – to cumbersome and exposed. The colour palette feels ripe and alive while easy and serene. Some surfaces seem worn in as if they have been washed away by the rain or bleached out by the heat of the sun. There is steady warmth to the work as if we are getting closer to the core of something.