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\u201cIt\u2019s not important to me if specific concepts I had in mind come up in the minds of the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blank white walls do not float her boat. She find them \u201ctoo clinical\u201d and that they have \u201cno life in them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sitting in her lounge room, dressed in a jumper with a monarch butterfly badge, long skirt, and a garden decorating her boots, Eliades said she wants colour and patterns in visual scapes. She primarily finds her inspiration through nature, places like her family garden, but also draws influence from Instagram artists, and pre-Raphaelite art.<\/p>\n
The Exhibition Building installation will include some of Eliades\u2019 specialty mediums; etchings, hand-paintings, as well as some furniture and wall paintings.<\/p>\n
She lamented the care and delicacy of the etching process is almost more special than the final product.<\/p>\n
To etch she must polish a copper plate, degrease it in an acid solution, then heat and apply a mix of wax and resin called ground. Once this dries, she etches into it so it leaves an impression on the copper. Then she removes the dried ground and inks the copper plate full of the intricate details. The reverse impression is left on the paper after machine-pressing.<\/p>\n
The resulting line-art can be coloured in. Each copper plate produces one design for many impressions. But it takes time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese have taken me months,\u201d She says shifting through pages of in-progress etchings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do love it though. I even had to fashion a home-version of it where I heat up a frying pan on the gas stove and use that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eliades is determined to bring her visions to life, and she lights up when explaining her passion.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s amongst working, completing a fellowship, and completing other art projects like fabrics for chairs.<\/p>\n
Her emotional connection to her craft is something she lives with every day. She patted a chair, with fabric she created herself, as she said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to replicate ideas, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t be art. What\u2019s the point?\u201d<\/p>\n
What will she do after the Art Fair?<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to pick up more shifts at work,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n
It will be a busy time with final preparations, finally meeting her fellow artists, and interacting with new audiences when the exhibition opens.<\/p>\n
Eliades\u2019 passion for unique hand-crafted pieces is evident in her living spaces, and the effort she pours into each piece. One day, she\u2019d love to be creating for a living. That\u2019s the dream.<\/p>\n
See her installation at the Affordable Art Fair, held at Melbourne\u2019s Royal Exhibition Building from September 5 – 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHEN ushered into the space of an artist, you can see their inner workings. That certainly holds true for Daylesford artist Emily Eliades, a graduate of The University of Melbourne\u2019s Bachelor of Fine Arts who specialises in drawing and printmaking. Her success has seen her become one of the few artists featured as part of […]<\/p>\n