Artists

Renata Daina is a mixed-media sculptor and weaver currently living and working in Tongva/Los Angeles and Eora/Sydney.

Her studio practice oscillates between material experimentation and site-specific works exploring her prolonged consideration of ideas between body, land, and memory. Her tactile abstractions shape-shift perspectives between earthbound and celestial realms. Raised in Eora/Sydney, Australia, Daina learned traditional Lithuanian textile crafts from her grandmother, and is a fifth generation weaver. Growing up in a household of theatre artists she learned various production skills on and off-stage. This early behind-the-scenes experience proved valuable during the nearly ten years she made installations and objects for television, film, and fashion in Los Angeles. Prior to this professional experience she received a BFA with Honors Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, and studied Fashion & Textile Design at the University of Technology Sydney. Daina was a 2022 Fiber Artist in Residence at Township10, and has exhibited work in Australia, Europe, and the United States.

In Residence at Bundanon

I am thrilled to reside at Bundanon and learn from the landscape whilst focusing on a new series of abstract sculptural textile sculptures and studies. Naturally occurring patterns and shapes in nature, such as tree bark and plant root systems, are extremely inspiring to my work. I will engage with surrounding flora, and incorporate these formations into my new work through various labor intensive textile techniques. The surrounding area is home to an array of native flora, including rainforest species, dry sclerophyll forests, and coastal vegetation, that I wish to better understand. I believe this singular environment will be incredibly motivating for creating tactile explorations of our intricate human connection to earth.