Andrea Danker
soft compressions (2024)
acrylic on canvas, image transfer on wood
30 x 55cm,
30 x 25cm,
25 x 43cm,
30 x 25cm,
45.7 x 33cm
soft compressions, 2024 is an ongoing series that presents itself as a visual reminder for bodily care in the desire for repair and healing. Reinterpreting the frame's role in holding, supporting, and stretching the canvas, the artist explores and reimagines these gestures whilst utilising the motif of blue skies to reflect her yearning for comfort and stability within her body.
Andrea Danker (b.1996) is a Singapore-based visual artist from Malaysia. Her work rethinks and privileges the subtle minuscule shifts of lived experiences, exploring the constructs of inhabitation within a passing time and space. She works across painting and installation employing techniques of storytelling to present different views of perceiving everyday events and occurrences informed through personal narratives and social implications.
She graduated with a BA(Hons) in Fine Arts first class from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. She has participated in notable group exhibitions with Intersections Gallery, Art Outreach Singapore, Critical Craft Collective, DECK Singapore and The Substation. She was nominated for the International Takifuji Art Award in 2021 and was awarded the Winston Oh Travelogue Award in 2022.