Broken/Resilient Collection | RED ELEPHANT CREATIV

The following original artworks were created by Ashlee Hambleton as part of Broken/Resilient a collaborative exhibition with dance/movement artist Rebecca Cannon. Broken/Resilient explores the theme of pain and aims to promote the benefits of the arts as a wellbeing tool. Pain is a unique, personal journey, and not always visible, this exhibition acknowledges challenges pain presents, while exploring resilience and strength discovered in the process. The collection of artworks created by Ash for Broken/Resilient were inspired by a lived experience with pain, personal utilisation of the arts as a well-being tool to help process experiences as well as the Japanese artform of Kintsugi, in which broken pottery is repaired with gold, to create a new artwork celebrating imperfection.

Three key elements feature within these works including:

peony, (a symbol of healing in Greek mythology) to represent life and joy

hands to represent the presence of the artist

gold thread/paint to represent creativity and healing.

Alone

Ashlee Hambleton
Medium: Watercolour and colour pencil
Size: 44.7cmH x 34.7cmW x 3.4cmD
Frame: Light coloured raw wood

Alone explores the moments within a pain journey unseen by others, creating a sense of isolation. Art however, helps the artist reconnect with the world around them.

Resilient

Ashlee Hambleton
Medium: Watercolour on crepe paper sculpture
Size:30x45cm (approximately)

Inspired by the resilience discovered within a pain journey a peony was created from crepe paper to represent the peony repaired through the creative process. Strong, flexible yet fragile, the crepe peony, although repaired and painted, imperfect marks remain, representing scars both visible and invisible left behind from pain experiences. Held by a paper vase, torn layers of imperfection merging together representing complex and multilayered pain experiences.

Portrait of Resilience

Ashlee Hambleton
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 95cmH x 65cmW x 3.4cmD
Frame: Light coloured raw wood

The artist has chosen to create a Portrait of Resilience to celebrate imperfection and honour the resilience achieved during the journey. The size of the portrait was an intentional choice to allow experiences that are imperfect to take up space, to be heard and seen.

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