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CEARA METLIKOVEC

The recent winner of the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Ceara Metlikovec creates seemingly minimalist drawings often inspired by very un-minimalist music, such as Radiohead. And if she doesn’t like the outcome, she burns it.

If I could play music then create a drawing, I could transcribe the energy I was feeling.

THE DRAWINGS FROM YOUR ONGOING INDIGO SERIES often assume a minimalist aesthetic. Are you leaving it up to the viewer to decide what they mean, or is there a fixed idea behind the works?

For me, the idea was to create an opportunity for seeing something other than things from the everyday. I’m trying to

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