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Silke Raetze is a Sydney-based artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School and was awarded a residency at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon early in her career.
Raetze has exhibited widely in solo and curated exhibitions across Australia. In 2009, she undertook a significant painting residency in Peppimenarti, a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, where she worked alongside Indigenous artists including Regina Wilson and Patsy Marfura. This experience played an important role in shaping her ongoing engagement with texture, materiality and narrative within her practice.
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“This work celebrates friendship. It is a collaborative piece made from the works of two artists’ studios, a printmaker and a painter.
“I like the idea of bringing together work from two very different ways of working. My friend and fellow artist Michael Burfield made the delicate print, which created the quiet and contemplative mood of the piece. I wanted to give justice to what he had created and the generosity of gifting it to me.
“My stitched and somewhat “less delicate “canvas pieces were collaged with his print and then stitched again with both hand and machine. I like the way the stitching adds an extra element of texture and movement.
“Michael’s print gave me inspiration to think about the beauty of each morning and the way the sun warms the sky. During this time of day, I have my own ritual while the house still sleeps, I make coffee.
“I love coffee and prefer to brew it in a traditional Italian method of the ‘Moka pot’.
“The distinct, hexagonal shape of this pot became the inspiration for this artwork, while the aroma drifts in abstracted shapes.
“It is my hope that the viewer may also feel the happiness from this little still life of my still, quiet and contemplative mornings.”
Silke Raetze, 2025.
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