“The Raw Vision 126 issue features the extraordinary work of Shane Drinkwater, whose intricate compositions resemble celestial charts, ancient maps and microscopic worlds.
Using vintage dress-making patterns as his surface, Drinkwater builds complex fields of numbers, arrows, circles and crosses. The works feel encoded with meaning yet remain deliberately open, inviting viewers to respond intuitively rather than decipher a fixed narrative.
Rooted in dyslexia, synesthesia and a lifelong fascination with symbols and pilgrimage routes, Drinkwater’s art explores mark- making as a sensory language that speaks beyond words.”
— Raw Vision Magazine
Shane was born in Tasmania, Australia.
As the recipient of the Alliance Française/Australia Council of the Arts fellowship he had access to studio space in Paris for 4 months.
He then went back and stayed in Paris for 6 years.
He is now living in Queensland.
He is harnessing his interest in ancient manuscripts, cartography and astronomy to create artworks using dashes, dots, lines, crosses, numbers, playing with the texture of vintage dress-making patterns.
Shane has exhibited widely across Australia, Europe and north America.
His works are held in private collections all over the world and public collections such as the Museum of the Mind located in the Hermitage Amsterdam.
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