Zella Casey Brown

https://zellacaseybrown.com/
@zellacaseybrown

Zella Casey Brown is a multidisciplinary artist based on Kuringgai and Gadigal Land, who works across the fields of print, photography, drawing, and sculpture. She has developed a performative monotype printing method that explores the interactions between mind, body, and material during the act of making. Her practice is a dialogue of cyclical action and gesture, working interchangeably to unearth abstract disclosures of sensory experience in collaboration with the material and mechanical body. For Zella, shosin — the Zen Buddhist term for a ‘beginner’s mind’ perspective is central, as opposed to the pursuit of mastery. This allows her to chase after the type of dreamscape in her work, that upon waking one might crave. Her approach creates a discourse of forgetting and remembering, between tacit knowledge of the body and explicit knowledge of the mind. This allows for the traces of movement, quietude, sensation, and memory to interface with the complexities of the mind, body, and material connection.