Sea is Clearer than the Wind
Branka Sinobad

Sea is Clearer than the Wind

$1,400 AUD
AUD $1,400 AUD

2026 – Original

Polymer paint, spray paint, acrylic, charcoal and pencil on wooden panel.

50cm x 50cm

Artwork statement
Sea is Clearer than the Wind (2026) forms part of an ongoing exploration of memory, in which painting, drawing and text interact through layering, obscuring and revision. A mixed-media painting on wooden panel, it combines layers of polymer and spray paint with drawing and handwritten fragments. Shades of red and pink dominate the powdery surface, while fine lines and partially obscured words move across the painted layers.

I often remember things in shades of red and pink. Something about the painting's powdery surface brings back a memory of the sea — the beauty of the water and the sensation of its surface. The inscribed words feel like they cut through water, evoking freshness and movement. They become part of the image, moving between language, marks, memory and feeling.

Learn more about Branka Sinobad

Branka Sinobad is a Brisbane/Meanjin-based artist working across painting and drawing. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her practice investigates painting as a temporal field, where memory is encountered through the emergence of forms. Through layered processes of drawing, painting, obscuring, and revision, she develops surfaces in which gestures emerge, recede, and remain embedded within strata, forming compositions where multiple temporal states coexist. Paint functions as surface time, embedding drawing within a structure of duration. Figures emerge within this layered ground as provisional condensations of time. Some retain a resonance with memory, while others detach and become autonomous formations within the painting. This instability reflects her central concern: how memory is transformed through time, allowing new forms of presence to emerge.

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