Left) Louise Zhang, Dylan Batty (Right)
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Photo: Zan Wimberley
About.
Louise Zhang and Dylan Batty explore aspects of beauty and history through the re-appropriation of personal and cultural artefacts.
With specific focus on the hand-made, their practice seeks understanding, through bridging their stark aesthetic, social, and cultural differences.
Collaboration began in 2020 when artists Louise Zhang and Dylan Batty started exploring the possibilities of working together creatively.
With specific focus on the hand-made, their practice seeks understanding, through bridging their stark aesthetic, social, and cultural differences.
Collaboration began in 2020 when artists Louise Zhang and Dylan Batty started exploring the possibilities of working together creatively.
Dylan Batty
Dylan Batty (b. 1994) is a Australian multi-disciplinary artist with a background in painting and carpentry.
Their conceptual practice explores themes of human connection, storytelling, and the semiotics of labor, intimacy and technology.
Batty’s work challenges notions of craft and invites a rethinking of how materials and techniques can convey deeper narratives and emotional resonance.
Batty’s work challenges notions of craft and invites a rethinking of how materials and techniques can convey deeper narratives and emotional resonance.
Louise Zhang
Louise Zhang 张露茜 (b.1991) is a Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, sculpture, and installation. Zhang's work is inspired by Chinese mythology, botany, and a focus on materiality, employing symbols and motifs in compositions of harmonic dissonance.
She explores aesthetics by using elements to convey feelings of fear, anxiety, joy, place, and a sense of otherness that reflect her identity.
She explores aesthetics by using elements to convey feelings of fear, anxiety, joy, place, and a sense of otherness that reflect her identity.