Light celebrates the work of artist Debra Winn through sixty-eight artworks inspired by life models and dance companies from New York to Australia over the past sixteen years. These are beautiful, powerful images, many never-before-seen or exhibited, showing Winn’s unique, powerful approach to monotypes that evokes a raw sensitivity towards her subjects and capture the power and beauty articulated through performance. Winn’s artwork is saturated with light and movement, accentuating the strong, muscular, lithe figures of her dancers and nudes: “expressive bodies, moving with passion and emotion.”

Debra Winn, Light & Shade 14, 2006, monotype on Velin Arches, 87 × 70cm. Courtesy the artist and fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
fortyfivedownstairs
22 March to 23 April 2022
Melbourne