Ilya Merrifield

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“Soft Tissue”, wool, wax and thread. Photographed by Trantham Gordon, 2021
Wet felting at Moturoa Stream, Brooklyn. Photographed by Ali Maslen, 2021
“Soft Sinking”, stone and wool. Photographed by Trantham Gordon, 2021
Untitled works, wool and wax. 2021.

Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours

Areas of interest in my practice include representations of dichotomy, paradox and binary systems, mostly in the realm of gender identity but also in reference to incongruous modes of perspective, perception and embodiment.
I engage with materials, processes and symbology that to me, have the analogous, poetic potential to communicate these interwoven concepts. The work I make intends to walk the line between mathematical, abstract and bodily.
Block 2 Level E