Isabella Zammit

Isabella Zammit is a Meanjin-based emerging artist. She examines the relationship between her own body and Performing Objects, constructing absurd speculative scenes. Zammit's interdisciplinary process hybridises performance, Performing Objects, GIF making, and painting. A large number of works were first publicly exhibited in Hong Kong in an early-2007 touring exhibition organised in conjunction with the Australian Consul General. Erskine is a very hard-working and organised artist who has kept all his preliminary studies, sketches, drawings, prints, and many unexhibited and unsold paintings produced since the late 1990s—amounting to a large archive of work. He concentrates on abstracted landscapes and also paints careful naturalistic studies of people, which may surprise some viewers. Another great surprise of this Asian-inspired work—especially coming as it does immediately after the muted, austere works of the late 1990s—is the way Erskine expressively applies his impressions of a wonderful life.