Framed How To Rest, Original

This original artwork has been created especially for The Mix – Enter Gallery’s 2024 group show of original artworks from a selection of our artists.  

Marcelina Amelia is an exciting contemporary artist known for works that contemplate themes of self-acceptance, gender and representations of female sexuality. Amelia states: "I like to play at the tense borders between lust and innocence, joy and sadness, fun and pain.” 

How to Rest is a thoughtful piece exploring he importance of finding time to just be. Amelia reveals: 

"This work was created during summer following an incredibly busy and exhausting period. I found myself struggling to take a break, ironically reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, where he discusses 'idleness aversion', which is an inability to rest or a nagging anxiety that one should always be productive.

Inspired by Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, I approached this piece without a plan or preconceived idea. Books often find a way into my paintings, and this piece is no exception. A literal copy of Philip Guston: I Paint What I Want to See—my favourite book this summer—appears in the work." 

The artwork is a prime example of Amelia empowering oeuvre, demonstrating how inspired she is by the strength, resilience and living-giving capacity of women. 

This original artwork is created with acrylic and oil on canvas.  

Framed size (cm): 76.2 x 61