Vailed by the Wind
Branka Sinobad

Vailed by 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
Vailed by the Wind (2026) forms part of an ongoing exploration of memory, in which painting, drawing and text interact through layering, obscuring and revision.

I don’t begin with a fixed idea of what the work will become. The painting develops through repeated layering, scraping and reworking. In this work, soft pinks, reds and pale yellows overlap with stronger areas of colour, while fragments of inscribed language and traces of earlier marks remain visible within the surface.

This work evokes memories of the wind.

Wind. It catches your breath, pulls at you, pushes you back. You push through and keep going. You sink into your coat. You can barely breathe. And the day is clear. The wind is distant. Yet my cheeks feel cold.

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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