He’d Like to Come and Meet Us, but He Thinks He’d Blow Our Minds

Finalist: Revival Art & Design Emerging Artist prize

‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds’
(‘Starman’ by David Bowie)

A young man with piercing blue eyes waits in the shadows. His eyes are uncertain. Dramatic horizontal shadows play across his handsome face. What is he waiting for? What does he know, that we don’t?

Though he is rendered in two dimensions, the intricate detail and contrast in the artwork makes you feel like you could reach out and touch him…

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Hannah Aiello is an Australian autodidact multimedia artist currently based on Magnetic Island.

Her work (owned by collectors across Australia, UK, Vietnam and USA) is celebrated for its photorealism and attention to fine detail; from striking watercolour portraits to picture-perfect recreations of astronomical wonders.

Passionate and self-taught, Hannah is forever adapting to new media and techniques. Her latest collections bring a new stylised touch to an established technical ability, with intuitive mark-making and experimental textures adding a personal stamp entirely her own.