Bo-dene is an emerging artist who resides in Naarm/Melbourne and is completing a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours) at RMIT in 2024. Her site-specific installation practice uses the colour yellow to translate a neurodiverse experience of everyday architectural space. By using a yellow cube as a self-portrait, liminal spaces in institutional buildings are explored through performance and mixed-media installations to portray a sensorial connection that is informed by the personality and materiality of that site.
Yellow Corridor is an ongoing project that explores these spaces and is the title that is used to bring together a collection of installation iterations that explores her interaction with ‘in-between’ spaces that are encountered and where she senses belonging through mutual understanding.
Using Yellow as a methodology to create a physical representation of the beauty of the space ‘in-between', Yellow Corridor is an idea, a place, a feeling - a way of understanding the world through Yellow.
Having volunteered at ACCA, she has experienced the important role that contemporary art holds in the dynamism of the city and has been fortunate to further develop her practice by studying at Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2023. She was the recipient of the RMIT Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence in 2023 and hopes to continue expanding upon her Honour’s project in the future through higher research.
