Saren Dobkins

I am an artist who works at the intersection of the personal and the universal, the tightrope every painting is balanced on. My canvases are stages: geometry and physics carry as much narrative weight as colour, tone, and gesture. My work is steeped in the human story; play, philosophy, ecology, our need for connection and love, and the vulnerability of the individual within the vastness of everything. I grew up in Zambia, where early exposure to Shona sculpture still shapes how I build a figure: androgynous, solid, earthbound. Giotto's flattened space within one-point perspective remains a quiet reverence; the gestural mark-making I trust instinctively owes much to Rothko and de Kooning. Colour, for me, is sound; harmonious, surrounding. Every piece begins with the drive to communicate an idea: an exploration of our nature, the journey of the separate self, a desire to express our tender vulnerability. That ripple of constant energy runs through every work I make. I paint from the growing understanding, through neuroplasticity, psychology, and consciousness, that we create our own reality. My intention is to make the unconscious visible: to show that beneath our humanity we are connected, even as I ask harder questions in a time of angst, uncertainty, and polarisation.

Saren Dobkins ARTWORKS

Saren Dobkins

Counting My Lucky Stars

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Saren Dobkins EXHIBITIONS

2026, Du Rietz Art Prize, (Finalist) Gympie Regional Gallery
2025, Prestigious Art Auction, Noosa Queensland
On The Wildside Butter Factory Art Centre, Cooroy, Queensland
Into The Woods Studio One, Noosa, Queensland
Ocean and Ochre Noosa Art Gallery, Noosa, Queensland
Unfiltered – A Photographic Exhibition Butter Factory Art Centre, Queensland

2024 Eclectica Art Award, Butter Factory Art Centre, Cooroy, Queensland
The Studio Project, Book Launch/Exhibition Cool Arts Gallery, Queensland Du Rietz Award (Finalist) Momentum Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Queensland Omnia Art Prize, (Finalist) Flamingo Dreaming St Kevin’s College, Victoria Hiding In Plain Sight (Solo)Butter Factory Art Centre, Queensland
A Sigh of the Times (Solo) Art Post, Gympie, Queensland

2023 Eclectica Art Award, Cooroy Butter Factory Art Centre, Queensland
Du Rietz Award (Finalist) Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Omnia Art Prize, (Finalist) St Kevin’s College, Toorak, Victoria
Collector’s Edition, Art Lovers Australia, Gold Coast, Queensland
Mirror Mirror, Cooroy Butter Factory Art Centre,Queensland
More Than The Sum of Its Parts. Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland

2022 Du Rietz Award (Finalist) Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Eclectica Art Award, Cooroy Butter Factory Art Centre,Queensland

2021 Lyn McRae Drawing Prize (Finalist) Burden, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland

2021- 2024 Qld Regional Art Award (Finalist) Flying Arts Alliance Inc, Queensland

Saren Dobkins

Country:

Australia

Website:

www.sarendobkins.com

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