Untitled, 2000
Considered one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists, Ildiko Kovacs paints in a way that distils mark- making to striking painterly expressions awash with colour. Kovacs' pendulously hypnotic pathways glide in sweeping free-form exuberance across the picture plane, and her works are unified by an energy that hovers just above the canvas like a silent force field. Lines and curves embody a mercurial force that registers with viewers as a sensorial rhapsody of electrifying colour. Ildiko Kovacs was the recipient of the Bulgari Award in 2015 and her work is held in numerous prestigious galleries and private collections in Australia and abroad