About the artist
Adelle Teagle (She/Her) is a queer oil painter living and working on Wurundjeri land (Melbourne, Victoria). Though the city around them is alive 24/7, and highly saturated, Teagleβs portraiture tends towards restrained, monochromatic colour schemes, often abstaining from colour altogether.
Variable access to the internet, to viral and mainstream media, was typical of Teagleβs early life, growing up in various regional and rural settings. Teagle found that lifeβs big questions and philosophical and ethical dilemmas naturally arose in these secluded and stark locations. Questions of human irrelevance, irrationality, fallibility, vulnerability- What it means to die, how we face our endings, remember our dearly departed and when necessary dig them up young Teagle dissected these questions, coped with awful truths and uncertainties, and channelled their emotions through their art.
As a teenager, they gravitated towards masters of gothic horror like Mary Shelley. Aesthetic histories and speculative fiction whose subjects were the macabre, the deceased, anatomy divorced from the body, divorced from life. These days they also inhabit the darker side of contemporary art and entertainment; heavy metal and horror cinema.
Adelle now draws inspiration from her personal life, poetry, books, and other media to which she can relate her emotions. Her seemingly dark oil paintings are where she tries to find the beauty in life's seemingly tragic situations. Her time with paints and canvases is dedicated to processing her feelings and thoughts, almost in a meditative state. Teagle utilises her art to portray difficult-to-verbalize emotions such as rage, frustration, despair, betrayal, and love.
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