Award-winning photographic artist Lilli Waters will unveil her latest solo exhibition, CORAL LANDS, from 20th June to 1st July at Saint Cloche gallery, Paddington.

CORAL LANDS  features a series of nine photographs which were elaborately constructed underwater using coral, live rock and flowers. Combining these elements with bright colours and night sky backdrops, Waters has created extraordinary, other-worldly landscapes.

Lilli Waters is an award-winning Australian photographic artist currently based and practising in Melbourne. Both a fine art and commercial photographer, Waters’ work has largely focused on
portraits, mostly of women, and still life. Waters has been the recipient of a number of awards including Art Aesthetica Art Award Finalist (2018), Contemporary Art Awards Finalist (2018), National Still Life Award Finalist (2017), Brunswick St Gallery Art Prize Finalist (2017) and Head On Portrait Prize Semi-Finalist (2015 and 2017). 

Recently Waters’ work has been published in magazines such as Elle, Yen, Art Aesthetica, Vogue Living and Real Living, and her photographs featured in the film 'Fifty Shades Darker' in 2017 and 'Fifty Shades Freed' in 2018. Waters was also invited to show works as part of the Venice Biennale Festival in 2017 and was invited to create a self-portrait for the ABC Art Bites 'Mirror' series in 2018.

Waters said, “I wanted to create little underwater fantasy worlds. I’m often drawn to darkness in my photographs and wanted to play with colour with this body of work whilst keeping a thread of darkness and strangeness throughout. With these dream-like vignettes, I want to encourage the viewer to delve into their own imagination.”

“The exhibition highlights the strange beauty and acute fragility of coral, and I hope it will raise awareness of the devastating impact that humans have on our oceans.”

The works also feature stars and moons which were inspired by the lunar relationship and cyclical attunement within all nature. This cyclical attunement is also symbolic of Waters, who lives with
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, a hormone-based mood disorder which follows a cyclic pattern where imbalances arise during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.

Lilli Waters‘ [Facebook ] CORAL LANDS exhibition will run from 20th June to 1st July at the Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington [Facebook and Instagram]  . Entry is free.