Iron- Fairy of the Apostles by Nafisa Naomi

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The subject of the Iron Fairy is the bronze nude set into an iconic Australian landscape with a foreground of wildflowers combining the traditional techniques of oil painting on board with lost-wax bronze casting. The visual interest is as much in the painted depiction of the iconic Apostles off the coast of Victoria as it is in the bronze nude, with wings to lift her out of the background window of landscape into the foreground cover of wildflowers.

The subject of the Iron Fairy is the bronze nude set into an iconic Australian landscape with a foreground of wildflowers combining the traditional techniques of oil painting on board with lost-wax bronze casting. The visual interest is as much in the painted depiction of the iconic Apostles off the coast of Victoria as it is in the bronze nude, with wings to lift her out of the background window of landscape into the foreground cover of wildflowers.

Nafisa Naomi
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia

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Other Media on metal

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

The stunning colourful wildflowers of Australia, the female form in bronze, free of decorative elements other than a pair of fairy/butterfly wings, juxtaposes the weight of metal against the idea of the weightlessness of flight. Nafisa presents natural beauty of our landscape as a foil for the soft feminine form, defined in strength by the use of bronze and complemented by the hardy structural shapes of the wildflowers and pods of the bush. Nafisa takes the traditional concept of painting being on a wall, to it being presented on a plinth and in a unique combination has created sculpture to give the ultimate 3D painting a narrative and substance in her series ...'Iron Fairies'

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Bronze solid cast female nude fixed with painted, wired wings, mounted into a double (window -box) painting depicting wildflowers and the Apostles .

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Nafisa Naomi
5 artworks

Bowral, New South Wales, Australia

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