Verity Crane

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)

Verity Crane is an artist whose work utilises various techniques traditionally associated with women's work, including sewing and weaving, as well as unapologetically figurative oil paintings. They investigate culture and authenticity, while threading through parallel themes of aloneness and overstimulation, to explore what it is to navigate a world of short-term knowledge and monocultural practices far removed from subsistence farming.

Their work neither avoids nor surrenders to the predestined indignity that textile work is often awarded. Rather their works simply mull about in the territory of women's labour historically, taking note of resilience, patience and ancestry.