Australian artist Miranda Skoczek investigates the history of visual culture and image making with her canvasses that feature a 'remix' and sampling of traditional decorative iconography that has existed throughout the ages. Skoczek creates artworks of luxury and ornamentation with fantastical flora and fauna motifs. The codes and symbols the artist employs are highly personal but yet remain an accessible language to others. Her opulent works celebrate an eternal beauty and goodness in image making.
Embroidery, folk art, Chinese and Japanese prints, Mughal miniatures, Islamic architecture, and popular culture are some of the cultural references which permeate the canvasses. The works merge the abstract the representational, high art and popular culture and nature with decorative culture. The works are designed to effect the viewer, to transport them to a sometimes whimsical mythological space, an atmosphere saturated in colour and emotive forms.
The multiplicity of elements are harmonized in the built up canvasses, giving them a sense of history - in a sense they record the journey of the artist searching for beauty.
Skoczek has exhibited widely in Australia since graduating from her Fine Arts degree in 2004.
