Joanna Levesley · Winner Collectors Art Prize
As an artist Joanna believes in using complex lines to create powerful concepts. Her work is driven by a passion to capture the underlying beauty and energy of things by honing into the fundamental line, exploring the limitless possibilities of the imagination. They are an investigation into representations of situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in drawing, never showing the complete structure. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted and therefore manipulating the viewer to create confusion without being hindered by the historical reality.
By examining the ambiguity and origination via abstraction, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. This creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles, and by applying abstraction, she often creates works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested.
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The Guardian (at sunrise), 2025, pen and ink, 2025
SAX, 2000, pen and bronze acrylic ink, 42cm x 29.7cm
Eagle Eyed, 2024, pen and ink, 21cm x 29.7cm
Flower Duet, 2023, pen and ink, 59.4cm x 84.1cm
Queen's Gambit, 2024, pen and ink with cerulean blue acrylic paint, 59.4cm x 84.1cm
