Miranda Skoczek
72 // Miranda Skoczek is a fine artist from Melbourne, Australia. Miranda studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her work is inspired by the entire history of image making, but most notably the decorative arts (especially from ancient cultures), nature, fashion and outsider art. Miranda normally produces works for shows, but recently she was commissioned by Chanel, which she says was both exciting and daunting. Her dream design brief would be to have a boutique hotel whose walls and furniture she could paint in any manner she chose. In the future, Miranda would love to collaborate with an international fashion designer.
Design Heroes: Cy Twombly, Fornasetti, Coco Chanel
Pattern, Parrot and Alchemy
Miranda notes that from the beginning of time, humankind has displayed a penchant for embellishment and a desire to decorate. She explores this here by adding abstract motifs to ‘remix’ these bird photographs.
Diamond Eyes
Miranda often references the history of textiles for inspiration, and she explores the boundaries between abstraction and representation, design and the painterly. Here a leopard is further exoticized by the embellishment of diamonds.
Abstracted Owl
Miranda’s mixed-media prints are created with a combination of collage with gouache, acrylic, oil on canvas, ink, crayon and pen on Arches paper. She layers graphic shapes over images to add extra opulence, then frames them in Perspex.
All photos by Jeremy Dillon