OFFICIAL OPENING I SATURDAY 16th of AUGUST, 6pm till 8pm
SHOWING DATES I 16th of AUGUST till the 27th AUGUST, 2025
Artist Bio
Dalin Alejandrino is a self-taught artist who creates abstract artworks, each embodying a sense of wonder and beauty in nature and its forms. Her works are a dialogue between motherhood and making as she navigates life, creativity, and her inner landscape through a world of visual storytelling.
Currently painting from her home studio in Sydney, her abstract expressionism is characterised by unconscious memories and cascading landscapes brought to life through subtle textures, whimsical brushwork, and the free-flowing movement of colour and mixed media.
Intuitively delving into the unknown when painting, her artistic energy draws on themes hovering between past and present, family and home, land and country. She utilises layer upon layer of acrylic and mixed media to create her artworks. Dalin’s ethereal works transcend the physical, leaning into the practice of feeling through the process. Each layer a memory, each mark an emotion, converging into abstract works that hover between her inner and outer worlds.
She was a Cambodian refugee, with her family having migrated to Australia in 1987, and often draws inspiration from her motherland. That estrangement from land and family is interconnected with her emotions while paying homage to family, motherhood, heritage, and provincial life. Her ethereal compositions channel the in-between – home and displacement, nature and nurture.
Artist Statement
Introspection
Deeply interlaced with blurred memories of the past and immediacy of the present, my latest body of work Introspection aims to reclaim motherhood, and the essential parts of my inner self I’ve worked hard to nourish. There’s a subtle shift to erratic wind-swept movements. The energetic flow in precious studio time is constantly searching for that magical point where things emerge organically.
Always in a constant conversation with nature and nurture, I step outside my home studio to take a moment, a breather. With purpose and stillness during those quiet Winter walks, I welcome the fresh air. To hear the gentle wind pass through, and to rock my second child to sleep. On these nap time walks I look up at the sky and often wonder, ‘What would it feel like to be the wind? Where might it take me?’
Introspection pays tribute to all those precious moments and the opposing tension where quieter marks are interlaced with moody colours, soft and gentle like floating with the wind. What emerges is a visual language that extends beyond the surface to my inner landscape, my inner realm. The transparent washes juxtaposed with opaque brushwork asks the viewer to enter the world of my psychology and unearth the many complex layers.