Description: Fine sculpture and art by Melbourne Australia based artist Gillian Govan, including some large bronze and cement figures, and kaleidoscopic paintings express many facets of the natural and human world through the lens of the personal. ‘Explore, embracing, colour, belonging, self, nostalgia, listen, strive, battling on, used, inward-outward, share, life-cycle, beyond...’ are just some words the artist uses to express the terrain explored by her work.
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I have been creating art since childhood and I enjoy the full process of creating although I don’t think of it so much as a process as an evolvement that begins with the submission to the first seed of an idea to be developed manipulated and built upon. I paint in a studio, and at home and make sculptures in my shed and in a huge shed on a farm in a beautiful inspiring part of country Victoria.
I completed a diploma of Art and Design at Moorabbin Tafe in 1992 and Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in 1995. This training helped me to look at and understand the work of other artists, past and present and encouraged me to follow my instinct with my own work.
It is difficult to pin point specific influences, as my work is so diverse in subject matter and the mediums I use. It is so varied that many artists and styles have influenced and inspired me, but mainly I draw on my own intuition and inner drive. Art is my passion but life is too short to do all I would like to do. Passion for making art does not always reap rewards but gives a wonderful inner satisfaction. I have had many turning points but I think the most significant was when I commenced my formal art