Ali McNabney-Stevens is a Melbourne based contemporary artist who depicts landscape and floral scenes through expressive gestures of paint, sketchy linework and mark making. Her work explores the connection between memory, human experience and artistic practice via flashes of past. For the artist time is irrelevant and following the links and ties to get to the elusive perfect ending is all that matters. The exploration of memories coupled with the visual revisiting of unassuming day-to-day happenings has brought an expressive freedom to Ali’s work. Using flora and fauna as a catalyst, this fresh perspective has seen her creating a dialogue using oils and collage to search for her imagery unashamedly getting lost in thought provides a lineal view into the artist’s life story page by page. Layers of memory are delicately articulated through oil and collage and woven together with the artist’s characteristically painterly marks. Her work draws physical reference from still life whilst the narrative expels lifecycle observations of a deep, raw and mulled beauty. McNabney-Stevens earned an honors degree in Art History and Design from Edinburgh College of Art, and then proceeded to further her studies in Fine Art at Saint Martin’s in London, England. Her work is exhibited internationally displaying her pedigree with an impressive body of abstract works that demonstrate versatility and individuality.
b. 1968, London, England