Painting.
Sculpture.
Art that asks questions.
Sylvia Schwenk, Multidisciplinary visual artist
Working across painting, sculpture, socially engaged performance, drawing, and film
Sylvia Schwenk finds the extraordinary in ordinary life. Working across painting, sculpture, socially engaged performance art, drawing and film, she transforms everyday gestures and routines into work that is thought provoking and sometimes quietly humorous.
Her work is held in public collections in Australia, Germany, and the United States. Works are available to collect and exhibition enquiries are welcome.
Featured Projects
your thoughts become your world
An ongoing series of abstract paintings organised around seasonal palettes and temporal rhythms. Through repeated shapes, inversions, and subtle variations, connections unfold across the works. Colour and form shift gradually, making perception an active, meditative process.
absurdity
absurdity draws on true events from Sylvia Schwenk’s six-month attachment to a Federal Government Taskforce when she was a Chartered Accountant. Working across ceramic sculptures, paintings, drawings, and illustrated short stories, this ongoing project examines how people navigate rigid systems and structures of control. The work is comical and unsettling in equal measure.
Films and socially engaged art
Over thirty works of film and socially engaged performance art across four continents. Each work tries to find and tell the human story.
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