Website: www.irenekoroluk.com
E-mail: irenekoroluk@hotmail.com
Irene Koroluk is a Tasmanian artist whose practice draws on her connections with the natural environment. Through her work, she aims to capture and reveal beauty and diversity in the landscape. Drawing on her imagination, memory and personal experiences from her travels and explorations, Irene captures both stillness and movement through detailed and layered interpretations of the places she encounters.
Primarily working in textiles, Irene creates tactile and detailed art quilts, often using mixed media in her compositions. Her practice also encompasses drawing, print making, photography and painting.
Interested in the transitory nature and fragility of landscape, her work aims to instil the value and importance of appreciating and protecting natural habitats, highlighting the places and species that touch and replenish her soul.
Death in Paradise
Retail Price: A$4300.00
Dimensions: 89 x 110 cm (H x W)
Statement: The wildflowers in Western Australia are awe-inspiring. This stunning annual spectacle is however, foreshadowed by increased numbers of charred trees throughout the landscape. A black death of old growth, caused by more intense, regular fires.
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2021.
Photographer: Bruce Champion
50 Shades of Lichen
Retail Price: A$2600
Dimensions: 47 x 100 cm (H x W)
Statement: Fifty shades of Lichen is inspired by my experiences of investigating and being captivated by the coastal lichens that grow above the high tide mark on granite boulders in Tasmanian coastal regions. I am always in awe of their ability to survive salt spray, bird droppings, and storm surge immersion.
Exhibitions: Finalist Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2022 (emerging category)
Photographer: Bruce Champion
