Evi O: A Pair of Marbled Cone Snails Races to Chinatown 2023

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Working with a refined hand and curious eye, Evi O's colourful abstractions of our natural and urban environment will transform Sydney's light rail into moving artworks throughout Lunar New Year 2023. A Pair of Marbled Cone Snails Races to Chinatown for The Special Braised Eggplant celebrates Australia's unique biodiversity and pays homage to one of Chinatown's most iconic meals.

Drawing inspiration from her recent Holiday series, this public artwork is the artist's largest scale work to date. Evi shares her love for nature with stylised depictions of the colours, patterns and movements of Australian animals, from bounding kangaroos to crawling sea snails. A Pair of Marbled Cone Snails Races to Chinatown for The Special Braised Eggplant gives the aquatic mollusc a relatable personality quirk: catching the light rail into Chinatown for the precinct's emblematic meal, Hóngshāo qiézi, or special braised eggplant.

A Pair of Marbled Cone Snails Races to Chinatown for The Special Braised Eggplant is supported by The City of Sydney's Precinct Activation Grant Program.

Artist Biography

Evi O is an award-winning multi-disclipinary designer and self-taught artist based in Sydney. With a curious eye and mind, she is constantly exploring and observing her surroundings. Through paint, Evi O continues to explore the use of dominant abstract shapes, although the compositions she presents are broadly suggestive of earthly forms - animal, plant or constructed. The creatures she depicts, and the scenes that she relays are symbolic of people, places and scenes that have left their mark - and this affords her an intimacy with her subjects that infuses the images with emotional resonance.

Colour is the cornerstone of Evi O's practice, and her works are reduced, abstracted, and finely balanced colour works. Running a design practise that exposes her to 3D forms, and spatial design brings a unique dimension to her artworks. The presentation of her works will be an installation of painted walls and 3D forms that pushes the boundary of art and design.