Antelope (Print Edition) Drawing

This skull artwork forms part of Debbie New’s body of work entitled Crania. Her Crania body of work is a meticulous study of animal antlers and skulls. The focus of each piece is a close-up study of the horns, focusing on the dichotomy between the dark tonal values of the horns - which remain largely the same in life as in death - and the lighter tones of the facial bones - which are only revealed posthumously. The dark and often heavily textured horns are a far departure from the smoothness of the cranial bones that it's hard to believe they are a part of the same whole. It is this contradiction that fascinates the artist and allows her to portray an aggregation of widely varying textures across one piece, taking a thing of morbidity and revealing its beauty. Furthermore, "to capture a skull as a piece of art", says Debbie New, "provides a renaissance for the creature being portrayed: a reawakening of sorts, so that even in its passing, it's beauty can continue to be experienced and enjoyed." Her portraiture-style subject matter portrayal is a common theme throughout her work, whether it's a portrait of a person, an insect, an animal or a skull. Portraiture, by its very nature, offers the artist an indulgent stillness and a solitude, but she feels that its beauty is in its ability to instil the same quietude in the viewer viewing it as in the artist rendering it. Her artmaking, she believes, is at once a homage to the creature she is portraying, and at the same time a journey of exploration through her own mind as she delves deeply and painstakingly into her subject matter. Of her artmaking, she says, “Art is my illness and my catharsis all rolled into one. My obsession; my source; my sounding-board; my soul.”

Drawing:Graphite on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0.1 D in

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