Skye Wallace
‘Intrapersonalities’ 2025. Oil, pencil & pastel primer on loose canvas; 2 paintings: ‘Emergence’, approx. 119 x 105cm, ‘Misbehaviour’, approx. 108 x 110cm.
Artist statement
My painting practice visualises post-traumatic intrapersonal self-relationships.
Combining the ideas of Parts Work – a therapeutic theory on self-multiplicity – with embodied self-portraiture processes, I externalise the internal realm wherein my own self-parts inhabit and interact. These parts emerge out of past experiences, holding onto memories and emotions, and each playing a different intrapsychic role.
Part-ness of the self is envisaged through bodily fragmentation; translucent, dismembered and incomplete. Composing multiple fragments of myself together, embedded in visceral space, serves to conjure a deeper understanding of the inner dynamics and sensations that exist within the post-traumatic plural self.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
аIJʹÙÍø School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
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