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While my work explores the interactions between strangers, friends or lovers, often my subjects have no identity. The aim is to portray the feeling, the emotions we all feel as humans and that way to connect with the viewers on a far more intimate level.
I want my work to provoke thought, to act as a mirror and the viewer to connect with an emotion itself rather than see a depiction of a real person or a scene.

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Irma Calabrese is a Lithuanian-born, Sydney-based set / production designer, artist and illustrator whose artworks are intricate, intriguing, minimalistic and often sensual.
She studied many forms of art making through tertiary studies in Set Design, Jewellery and Interior Design and became most drawn to ink as the main medium for her work still whilst studying at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts in Lithuania. She also developed a strong interest in photography once moved to Australia in 2004.
Inspired by travel, nature, primitive cultures, symbols, shadow puppetry, geometric and organic shapes, human psychology and interaction, her latest work is monochromatic single continuous line ink drawings. The themes of displacement, isolation, attachment, intimacy and afterlife are often present. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, Europe and the United States.

Follow Irma Calabrese on Instagram @irmauniverse
Artist website www.irmacalabrese.com