about

Colleen Cousins is a Naarm/ Melbourne based visual artist living and working on Wurundjeri land. She is a mother, grandmother, partner and mental health professional of over three decades. Each of these roles is inextricably connected to, and inspire her art practice. Colleen is also deeply inspired and captivated by the evocative colour, texture and form of the Australian landscape. She employs acrylics, ink and other media in her mark making to convey the beauty and diversity of the land. She is especially curious about the coexisting dichotomies of simplicity and complexity, harshness and softness, warmth and coolness, vulnerability and robustness alive in the landscape and alive in each one of us.