Syndy Esteves
Syndy Esteves Artist
'ARROW BOY & THE DEATH OF KHERION' oil on canvas, Syndy Esteves.
In entangling art and politics, Syndy was not only able to achieve a voice for the brumbies but relate and use her art to bring awareness to our human condition that affects our environment and our fauna. It was inevitable that her journey took her here, not by chance but by a chain of mnemonic experiences and events that linked her research of family and the individual of the everyday life starting from her childhood love of horses. The political upheaval of the brumbies magnifies the problems of our human condition that governs the environmental management of flora and fauna.
By using her art, Syndy can combine the understanding of the sentient via Portraiture, to express that these animals are not just animals but sentients. Giving a different perspective, that maybe then we should rethink our citadels and our laws regarding animals especially horses that have given to the human so much in the history of our relationship with them. They are not just a commodity, they are a sentient with families, hierarchies, and absolute spirit. By using Portraiture, each brumby is carefully chosen and with the help of references from a few wild-life photographers, especially Karen Ferguson, a wild brumby photographer. With Karen's intimate relation to these brumbies, Syndy is able to translate the individual brumby as a subject and bring him to life via Karen’s references, his/her/their experiences and give voice to each brumby named, relating events, history, family and references of theories to bring each subject to life. Hence, the experience of each painting or drawing is personal and like with a human subject, their portrait relates their standing in life and their story, speaking to the spectator.
About:
Syndy Esteves (b. 1963, Australia) is an Australian artist and a brumby advocate. Her artwork stretches the boundaries between art & politics. Syndy gives a voice to wild brumbies by relating the sentient with portraiture & given name, family history and the true story of events of each brumby painted or drawn.
Website: syndyartist.blogspot.com
Instagram: @syndyartist
Brush Bio: www.brush.bio/syndyartist
