Imbi Davidson is a visual artist currently living on the North Coast of NSW, Australia. Originally from South Australia, Imbi spent 12 years living across the Northern Territory before relocating to NSW.
Imbi was awarded an Australian Post Graduate Award to complete her Masters Degree in Visual Arts, researching the art of native plants in Australia with a focus on Indigenous and abstract representations of plants and the landscape. Her MA Thesis The Casuarina Tree – Visual Translations of Native Plants and Art in Australia (2012), is catalogued in the National Library of Australia.
In 2009, Imbi was awarded an Australia Council Emerging Artist Mentorship Grant, working with artist/mentor India Flint.
Imbi’s recent solo exhibitions include;cThe Bridge (RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs), The Palisades – Stories of the Mountains (Northern Rivers Regional Gallery), Tales of the Winds (The Channon Gallery), Unchartered Country (Arts Northern Rivers), The Lost City (The Chan Contemporary Gallery) & Lost At Sea (RAFT Artspace, Darwin).
Her work explores a mythopoetic landscape of colour, shape and motion; unravelling mountainous stories embedded in the folds, depths and boundaries raging against storming skies. The works range over geometric contours of the landscape in juxtaposition with wild, emotional sky-scapes. Imbi’s works capture the tensions between earth and sky, inner and outer, whilst finding linear points of intersection and connection.
Imbi has travelled extensively throughout New Zealand, South-East Asia, India, Canada and Australia. Her work is held in numerous private collections.
