At Opening Night of Debra Winn's exhibition, 'Light'.

Debra describes creating the monotypes, the process, the cognates and the beauty of light.

A special moment is shared, celebrating Debra's change of name, from Luccio to her maiden name, and her first exhibition as Debra Winn.

‘Light’ showcases over sixteen years of artwork inspired by life models and dance companies from New York to The Australian Ballet.

Winn’s dancers and nudes are not depicted in the way one might traditionally imagine, but rather in a dynamic, contemporary combination of expressive abstraction with realism. Winn has created this effect by layering colours onto a copper sheet and then wiping away the etching ink to reveal light and form bringing to life a sculptural and fully modelled figure.

“With the strong element of chance, the abstraction of marks and the unusual textures able to be created with rich etching inks, monotype making is a technique hard to beat,” says Winn.