Ekarasa Doblanovic

Ekarasa Doblanovic is a Italian/Croatian-born, New Zealand artist. Graduated in 2014 with Master Degree (Honours) in Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, NZ. Her creative practice encompasses painting and installation with collaborative and participatory projects "Imagine the Land", working across New Zealand and Australia as well as internationally. Having exhibited her  latest collaborative work “Tocca la terra” at the MACRO ASILO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome , was a finalist at The Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy and an co-produced an intergenerational project “Whanui”  with Auckland Arts Festival.

Doblanovic’s works embody a strong sense of materiality in which the tactile and haptic quality of colour and organic earth materials heighten the sensation and affect of colour and its material nature. She uses pure pigments and fabricates her own colours to activate a consideration of colour in its truest state as the primary voice of her works.  Additionally, her work investigates the collaborative and participatory  and social practices where notions of space, ecology, impermanence and human interactions are explored with the aim to create an empathetic interaction between people, art and nature.