NG Malla

NG Malla’s art practice focuses primarily on urban and domestic landscapes; particularly homes and residential neighbourhoods. She is interested in the familiar houses and streetscapes across Australia’s inner city, suburban and country towns, the memories and hopes they evoke about our own housing histories and aspirations, and the assumptions we may make about their occupants. The strong visual language associated with each architectural style; from the ‘colonial’ cottage to the Victorian terrace; Federation bungalow; mid century fibro and beyond, and their interactions with Australian native vegetation, exotic species, and intense sunlight – lend character and meaning to our everydaystreets and suburbs. Her domestic interiors and still life paintings continue this interest with the Australian home and the ways in which rooms and objects echo people or place – from the floral patterning on a living room sofa to the glimpses of garden through a window.