Delaney Mirow

Fabric Landscapes (To be confirmed), 2023

Cabbage dye, turmeric dye, acrylic and oil on raw cotton canvas

28x33 inch, 33x28 inch, 42x36 inch

Mirow is a contemporary painter and printmakier who recently graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her practice emerges from a connection with and response to Australian landscapes as well as domestic spaces. She is constantly working towards a union between abstraction and figuration through exploring the materiality of paint. Delaney applies thick layers of paint to dissipate meaningless detail and rather focus on gestural painterly mark making, vivid colour and curated compositions.

‘Fabric Landscapes’ fuses the heavy applications of paint with the alchemy of textile eco dying. By using organic pigments distilled from cabbage and turmeric to imbue the canvases with coloured stains of the natural world. The brush and paint battle the stained un-primed fabric for a place on the canvas.

The series ‘Fabric Landscapes’ elevates the mundane scenes of clothes washing to create landscapes, mountains and infinite colours within the folds and movement of the fabrics.