Painting by Athena Ergane 68 Artworks Sold

Priapus

Acrylic, Canvas, Ready to hang

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

Certificate of Authenticity Included
A$890

Artwork Description

Priapus is a minor rustic fertility god in ancient greek culture. The use of the copper leaf reflects his divine nature. The center section is textured to reflect his grounding to the earth.

Acrylic paint and copper leaf on canvas, edges are painted to match.

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.