Cassie Thring
Artist Statement // Often my thoughts return to the sea, and that deep blue salty goodness that operates simultaneously as internal and external landscape.
Navigating the high seas of ones existence is a tricky business and obstacles can be blessings or curses, sometimes both. Viewed from a distance, anything is possible.
Life is laid out before us, a series of unknown gifts that we must do our best to interpret.
Reflect, go deep, get lost, speed up, slow down, repeat.
One needs courage for the journey.
Cassie Thring is a multidisciplinary artist working from Floating Goose Studios on Kaurna land, Adelaide, SA. Her work reflects an interest in the riches and sorrows of life, in an earnest search for the meaning behind the uncertainties of life’s adventures. Using sculpture, printmaking and installation, Thring’s work attempts to untangle such mysteries with a combination of humour and tragedy. She has a genuine determination to play with ideas and ways of making, becoming both maker and explorer.
A passionate advocate for accessible art programs in ageing, indigenous and youth communities, Thring has participated in local and international residencies, is the recipient of several grants and has been a finalist in The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize in 2018. Thring’s work is held in the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Museum of Canberra and private collections, both in Australia and internationally.
Tegan Hale writes about Cassie Thring in Neoterica 2024.
Cassie Thring, Untitled (detail), 2024, 230 x 120 x 155 cm, steel, water, ceramic. Sam Roberts Photography.
