This contemporary artwork features a bold, circular composition in a striking red hue. Prominent within the frame is a stylized face-like form, with distinctive features such as a nose, eyes, and a downturned mouth, conveying a sense of distress or anguish. The repetitive, concentric lines surrounding the central motif create a sense of movement and depth, lending a dynamic quality to the piece. The artist's use of vibrant color and expressive, almost mask-like imagery suggests a commentary on the human condition and the emotional complexities of the modern experience. ...
Amanda Ross-Ho works across painting, sculpture, photography, and drawing and these varied components of her practice regularly gather within her surreal installations. Often blending more utilitarian matter such as polystyrene, sharpie ink or thread with discarded everyday objects such as clothing or receipts, Ross-Ho brings these ephemera together in a deeply observant context— using varying techniques to “conflate or collapse the authentic or the performed from the everyday”. Borrowing from the techniques of the Dadaists and their ready-mades, a wine-soaked piece of notepaper might provide the surface for a silk screen print, or a pair of workwear trousers could spark a series of gigantic sculptures. Uncanny-drawn motifs such as cartoon faces or calligraphic clockfaces continue to surface in varying forms, reincarnated in textiles, photographs or sculptures, building an otherworldly language and oeuvre for Ross-Ho to manoeuvre within. Experimenting with scale and these alternating processes, Ross-Ho is able to extract the bizarre from the seemingly banal, contorting associations to reveal the thin line between artifice and nature in our everyday environments. ...
