Reviewed by Cecily Bisshop
the strongest shape in nature is a circle, and I keep coming back to it
Work by Cecily Bisshop — printmaking and pieces exploring planets, clouds, bubbles and ethereal space. This is the portfolio for Prism Joy Creatives.
A note before you look. The images below are placeholders. I'll swap in photographs of my own work, and the titles and short notes under each one are mine to edit too. For now they hold the space.
The same forms turn up across most of what I make. Spheres and ovoids — eggs, the womb, planets, bubbles. These are the shapes nature evolved to keep the young safe, the strongest, most protective forms there are. I try to hold both things at once: that gravitas and density of meaning, and the lightness of joy and freedom.
I explore colour, shape and space through printmaking and a few other mediums. My inspirations sit in landscape, cloudscape, seascape — all the natural ecosystems, imbued with life and interconnected energy.
printmaking
The infinite world of printmaking. As a member of Saturday Printmakers in Toowoomba, I'm pushed to work from unfamiliar directions. These pieces come out of that practice.
celestial and natural forms
Planets, universes, clouds, bubbles, atoms. I've always been drawn to the way matter holds itself together — gasses attracted to each other, accretions slowly forming until there's mass enough to spin. From the smallest particle to the largest celestial body, it's the same energy over vast space.
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Where the work comes from
I came to this from being a dilettante into an excited daily practice. A recent epiphany tied my fascination with beautiful globular bodies back to a childhood that felt precarious and unprotected.
The memory of self, I think, is kept safe somewhere above the pain — golden, spherical, prismatic. The yearning for protection, and also for vast freedom. I explore this personal iconography with elation, and the work is where it lives.