When I was a young girl I almost drowned and the experience stayed with me in my dreams and left me with a fear of floating underwater and unable to reach the surface.
It is said that we spend about a third of our lives in a nocturnal universe and during that time we have dreams that are fragmentary reflections of consciousness rearranged into barely recognisable sequences.
Frederich Nietzsche suggested that sleep is a kind of revolutionary time machine. He was a strong influence on Salvador Dali who wrote in his book 'Diary of a Genius' that 'The Nietzschean Dionysus accompanied me everywhere' and spoke about making art that expressed a 'Dionysian Dream'.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edna Broad is a Launceston artist working in Invermay. Her artwork covers painting, mixed media and print in abstract and figurative genres. She studied Fine Art at the University of Tasmania, Launceston, graduating with a PhD in 2005. Edna has shown widely – locally, interstate and overseas, and is included in the collections of the Queen Victoria Museum, ANL, Melbourne and in private collections interstate and overseas. She has been a multiple finalist in the Glover Prize and The Maritime Art Award; ... the 2D Surrealist Art Prize, Boxed in Sculpture Prize, Burnie Print Prize, Women’s Art Prize, Tasmania and the Bay of Fires Art Prize. Since 1987 has had 28 solo art exhibitions of paintings, ceramics and mixed media and is currently represented by Blenheim Gallery, Longford, Tasmania.