Painting by Athena Ergane 68 Artworks Sold

Idols

Acrylic, Canvas, Ready to hang

91cm (W) x 121cm (H) x 1.5cm (D)

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Artwork Description

Idols have been worship throughout history by many different cultures and civilisations. Physical Idols were worshipped as physical reflections of the deities on earth. This work plays with this theme, taking a modern day approach to Idol worship. The symbol in this work is very closely associated with a modern day idols that are worshipped by millions around the globe.

Gold leaf and acrylic on canvas, sides are painted to match the front. Their is a wire across the back and the work is ready to hang.

Artist Bio

Athena’s practice moves between modern minimalist abstraction and bold, naïve landscapes—works driven by confident colour and distilled form. Shapes become anchors, fields of pigment become space, and composition does the talking: pared back, but never quiet.

She tends to work just outside the spotlight. With a foundation in the creative arts and a distinctly multi-disciplined mind, Athena is always chasing new techniques, materials, and ways of seeing. Step into her studio and you’ll find more than paint—sculpture in progress, textiles and ceramics, sketchbooks of illustration—an ecosystem of making where ideas migrate from one medium to the next.

At the heart of her work is a devotion to looking backward in order to move forward. Athena studies how ancient makers observed the world and the universe—how they tried to name the unknowable, to map wonder into meaning. Because what we call science now, once lived as magic.

Commissions

Athena's studio is in Adelaide