Daehler, Heidi

Heidi Daehler’s work is informed by certain attractions, obsessions, and compulsions with the photographic image. Her images may come from a variety of sources, whether digital or print, or her personal collection. Selected for their formal or intuitive appeal, the images undergo a process, which aims to resolve or utilize the ambiguous potential of the narrative they present. The subject matter is malleable, as is the medium, in the production of new imagined scenarios to communicate the personal or the emotional. This physical and painterly process aspires to celebrate the essence and concept at play in the image, while examining everyday experiences such as failure, anxiety, longing, transformation, beauty, uncertainty, resilience, and escape. She also accepts that a painting practice is not a black and white endeavour. It is a fluctuating, tumultuous process, which requires constant evaluation. She tries to maintain an approach that remains fluid and equiped to address the changes and challenges in the evolution of painting and the art sector. As her work develops, her curiosity for what drives us all to make is only increasing.