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Hunter Emerging Art Prize
Finalists and Winners
YEAR:
2025
Category:
Painting
Artist Name:
Indiana Marsden
Title:
Held Tension

Materials:
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:
38cm x 76cm
Price
$300
About the artwork:
This piece explores the relationship between structure and movement, how repetition and small variations in line and colour can create movement and energy. The curved grid shape feels alive, and I wanted the structure to shift slightly across the surface. The process was slow and intentional, becoming a calming and meditative experience. The reddish-pink background colour adds contrast and pressure, almost like its being held in. I left patches of colour showing on purpose to keep the felling of being imperfect and human. Although it is abstract, it can be read in many different ways.
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