Zella Casey Brown is a multidisciplinary artist based on Kuringgai Land, Sydney, who works primarily in printmaking and photography with drawing and sculpture also as ongoing practices. Her experimental research uncovers dynamic relationships between materials and processes in order to explore non-representational traces of the self via dialogues of muscle memory and imagination. Zella's startling sensitivity to nuances of location reflect bodily relations in her work to both place and broader human/environment entanglements. Her practice seeks balance in movement and quietude, form and void, sensation and rhythm, in an effort to realise perpetual tensions from both psychological and physical worlds.

Zella holds a BA in Fine Arts and a Masters in Fine Arts both from the National Art School, Sydney. Prior to this, she studied Architecture at Sydney University. Zella’s background in design and architecture, informs her current research practice where formal relations are developed with and through the landscape. Zella grew up on a small beach called Mackerel, nestled in the mouth of the Hawksbury River. Only accessed by boat, living by the tide and changing weather patterns has led to an intuitive and rhythmic way of living which weaves into her ways of making.

photo by Hugh Stewart