Genevieve Swifte is a Canberra based contemporary artist working between drawing, photography and video. Exhibiting in Gallery 2, Swifte presents her new series of works ‘Blister’.

The series began as a collection of observational drawings, including self portraits and still life drawings that formed a diaristic or documentary narrative.

Predominantly made with pencil on weightless and often damaged Japanese papers, the drawings capture drapery, anatomical studies and geometric abstractions informed by art historical references, Renaissance to Bauhaus. Self-portraits explore the artist's Dutch heritage to masquerade as vanitas pictures. Seashells trace intricate lines between taxonomy, colonialism and Swifte's connection with the Australian landscape.