Di Broomhall studied at the National Art School in Sydney, the Canberra School of Art in Ceramics, Charles Sturt University and at the Kathmandu School of Thanka Painting, Nepal. Broomhall has been a practising artist and educator for over 30 years and works from a studio at Canberra's M16 Artspace. She has taught in various institutions including the Australian National University in Ceramics.
Since completing a Masters in Visual Arts with Distinctions from CSU in 2001, she has drawn on this complex background in art theory and practice. Study and practice in one of the most elusive of ceramic techniques; atmospheric lustre firing has evolved into a way of working with paint that crosses through drawing, clay work and painting. Her canvases are thoughtful, energetic and speculative.
She says of her paintings, “They are songs constructed out of time and light and materiality and the transience of things. Of the beauty and integrity of life and of the stories of our becoming and being and becoming anew.”
Website: dibroomhallart.com
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Di Broomhall, Atmospheric Lustre, 2014. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.
Di Broomhall, Nomad's Light lV (detail), 2016. Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Di Broomhall, INTERPLAY (detail), 2021. Pigment on linen, 182 x 122 cm. Image courtesy of artist.
Di Broomhall, Chutespace at M16.