Major bodies of work and EXHIBITIONS
Violet is a prolific artist working in natural materials showcasing the wilds of outback Australia.
Her mediums include Ceramics, Ephemeral sculpture, Photography, Performance, Installations, Scenography and Earth Paintings.
About VIOLET
Hello!Violet Bond (born 1986) is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in the remote Indigenous community of Maningrida in the Northern Territory. Her practice includes performance art, photography, scanography, video, ceramics, and instalation, often incorporating wild clay, found materials, and other ephemeral elements including the artists own body.
She has exhibited internationally, including a solo show with live performance in Paris (2024) with Achetez de l’Art, participation in Art Basel Miami Beach, solo exhibitions at Uncommon Gallery, Seoul, and a major solo at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin amongst many other noteworthy showings.
Bond’s practice has been profiled in print and video interviews and featured in private and public collections worldwide, reflecting her ongoing commitment to raw, unfiltered expressions of the Australian outback.
Original paintings - raw pigments on linen
Collected throughout the Northern Territory, they tell the story of a life lived in the dirt, in wild places.
Working with raw pigments, Bond applies and disrupts the surface by hand, using pressure, scraping, and abrasion to create each mark. The works hold a physical record of gesture, where material and body meet.