Ebony Eden
Ebony Eden offers a meditation on shifting social aesthetics where personal expression emerges through the arrangement and nurturing of plants and objects. Eden uses a parallel drawing method to generate spaces of domestic garden utopia. There is no firm vanishing point or point of view but instead a presentation of infinite arrangement and possibility. There is a lightness in the work and a fluidity in her visual language. Working with lines in parallel, we can perceive depth and scale on this parallel axis as she moves from still life to garden landscape. The domestic gardens of southwest Sydney, where she currently lives, and the family’s home in Bulli on the Illawarra escarpment are a source for Eden’s work.
Born in Sydney in 1992, Ebony Eden has a background in printmaking from the National Art School. In 2014 she was the winner of the Flow Watercolour Prize and presented a major installation as part of the show Here + Now at the Wollongong Art Gallery in 2018. She has also exhibited in numerous group shows since 2013.