Eli Waters "Repulse"

Eli Waters is an emerging Australian artist based in Lismore on Bundjalung country and a graduate of a Bachelor of Art and Design at Southern Cross University. Eli Waters creates challenging allegorical images engaging with trauma and mental health. His practice is currently concerned with expressing the human experience in mental illness and trauma, including how we might find temporary solace in the cathartic creation of art. Waters paints expressive figures, constructed of painterly flesh verging on physical and emotional collapse. His work explores the mediums of painting, printmaking, drawing, collage and mixed media concerning expressionist movements of the past and contemporary painting practices.

"Repulse" is an acrylic painting on wood board of a deceased man laying in his own pooled blood with a vacant expression on their face gazing towards the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

Acrylic on Wood board

75 x 110 cm