Linda Spencer

Linda's preferred disciplines are painting and sculpture. Other mediums such as watercolour, natural materials and textiles also form part of her practice
 

In her latest oil paintings, she is trying to capture the beauty in the majestically desolate tobacco kilns of the Ovens Valley, Victoria. Heading out to paint these historic kilns over the four seasons of a year, produced a large body of work. This work was part of an exhibition with fellow friend and artist Simone Dole. Seasons of the Kilns May 23-25,2025 Bright Brewery, 121 Alpine Road Bright, Victoria
 

Some of Linda’s sculptures are kinetic, they move unexpectedly, tempting the viewer to interact or complete an action.  She is exploring the interactive aspects of those sculptures and the responses they evoke. While her static sculptures explore movement expressed through gesture, drapery and form of the material she selected. These materials include bronze, paper, tin, plaster, wax, wood and textiles.

 

Water, light, movement, memory and emotion inspire Linda's work, while pattern, texture, line and repetition are consistent elements.  Other inspirations arise from her personal life or current events.

 

Recent years and time spent visiting the Ovens Valley to visit friends and volunteer teaching placed her in a landscape of treasures to paint.

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Restrictions of 2020 rekindled her love of painting and she also learnt weaving with natural materials. Applying that skill to wild weaving, ghost net weaving and making smaller wearable sculptural pieces and jewellery.

 

 In 2012 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and in 2008 completed a Diploma of Fine Art at Chisholm Institute TAFE.

 

Linda is a Melbourne based artist

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Instagram:  Lindaspencerart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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