Pilar Basa

G’day, I am Pilar and thanks for coming to hang out.

Sprouting in Sydney, Australia I grow up in a very culturally diverse family. My mother Polish, my dad from the Philippines, a child of Australia. After having studied design at University of New South Wales, I took my skills and loves to New York where I lived and worked for over 5 years. As the years, the hours, the moments went by the buildings got too high, my skin felt too little sun and I missed the vivid blues and green of home. So I came home to Sydney, where now I am creating from my roots on sunburnt soil and experiencing my homeland with wide eyes.

From a young age creativity was always something that had existed in my life. My grandfather carving leather, my father doodling, my mum crocheting late into the night. Though never something to be celebrated or overtly acknowledged, art just lived in our home. As a child I liked to draw, and the inspirations I took those decades ago have not much changed; my surroundings, imagined happenings and made up creatures. With the same core inspirations, it is the plethora of life, it’s fleeting experiences and the growth of a soul that has taken these and developed them into what my hands create today.

I still like to dra...

Children's Book Writing & Illustration (Short Course) - School of Visual Arts NYC
Bachelor of Design - University of New South Wales

Sydney Children's Hospital | Sydney - currently showing
KRVNM | Sydney - 2019
The Other Art Fair | Sydney - 2019
Hot n Heavy | Sydney - 2018
Busstop Film | Sydney - 2018
The Other Art Fair | Melbourne - 2018
SHOUT!: Illustrator's of Australia | Melbourne - 2018
Pennies for the Ferryman | Sydney - 2011