Artist Profile — Loralee Jade
Loralee Jade’s painting practice is centred around her emotional landscape. Leaning into the experiences of her past, personal journey, Jade uses the process of painting as a tool to renew her ability to appreciate and respond to complex emotional and aesthetic influences. Jade returns to painful moments — not to recount the traumatic effects, but to feel them with a renewed heart, around which to restructure sensibility.
The experience is sensuous, luscious, bodily and emotional.
About ‘Bursting Her Banks’:
“As our interior worlds mirror and bump up against our external environments, one is given the opportunity to reconsider how we can be whole and resolute, yet malleable and porous. Our bodies merge with our environments through immersion, reflection, camouflage, and decay. We lean in when our internal selves dissolve into external experiences; the moments of you dissolving into me, of us into them. The practice of imprinting and being imprinted upon calls for tenderness, strength and connection. It is within this fluid embrace that this collection of works, ‘Bursting Her Banks’ was created.” - Loralee Jade
