Multi-disciplinary artist Laini Eckardt uses various mediums such as drawing, painting, photography and digital art to express herself. Her work, which is a celebration of life, nature and the feminine, is infused with strong mythological influences stemming from her interest in spirituality and time spent in tropical North Queensland.
Her continual experimentation with styles and techniques has led to her current style, which combines traditional hand-drawn elements with digital collages using vintage illustrations to depict spiritual and sacred feminine forces of nature.
Her artwork has been exhibited in Sydney, Cairns, Port Douglas and she is a founding member of the "Art in Transit" Far North Queensland Artist Collective. Additionally, she was a finalist in the TAFE NSW Invitational Arts & Design Prize, which was showcased in regional galleries of NSW.
“There is such grace and beauty in Laini's work, with the serene figures, their bodies communing with elements of nature. The viewer is transported into a sacred place where the artist seems to caress the boundaries between femininity and divinity. She captures something mystical with her chalk sketches, and cocoons the female body in vine, tendril and leaf. This seems to be a conversation of essence, the oneness of creation depicted in both human and plant form. Blossoms and soft thighs, hair and stars, flesh and fern frond seem to kiss one another in a gentle and spiritual way. Laini's art is both a lesson in the artists skill, and a conversation with the viewer, that is both captivating and metaphysical. The animated aspect of these pieces add another, beautiful, facet to the artworks, and it is in this way that digital art can offer something new and exciting to the traditional art world.” Jasmine la Fleur - NFT Weekly
Education
2020 Associate Degree in Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
2018 Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging, Wollongong TAFE NSW
1998 Diploma Fine Arts, Seaforth TAFE NSW
1992 Ceramics Studio Certificate, Randwick TAFE NSW
1988-1989 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts)
Ceramics Department, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University