amon nyx
sewing calligraphic abstract art
Monochromatic artworks,
composed of calligraphic marks on textured fabric fragments,
quilted together into an intuitive whole.
about
Amon Nyx is a Sydney-based collaboration between two brothers and an artist mother.
During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, artists were typically trained through apprenticeships with established artists. Trained in their mother’s studio from an early age, Amon Nyx is the vehicle in which their apprenticeship is taking place and through which their mother is passing on her knowledge. It remains a pseudonym to leave space for each son to later embark on his own individual artistic journey.
the process
Amon Nyx embraces meditative mark-making on raw canvas or salvaged fabrics, taking these singular insignificant fragments and gathering them together into a collaborative whole. Like tiny cells building a bigger body, they are stitched together, creating order from the accidental.
Faces often appear out of nowhere, a symbol of the desire for connection and meaning.
The human eye sees what the heart desires.
At times, ink or charcoal is added to explore the faces further, other times the work is left to the mind's eye to complete.
