Sandie Schroder
“I live in the hills of Perth in a high fire risk area, which is what inspired me to (carefully) burn paper to create my artwork. I am also experimenting with different mediums that have the same unpredictable outcomes as fire and interplaying them together.”
Living in the Perth hills for nearly two decades, Sandie Schroder draws direct influence from the volatile bushland environment around her. Her signature work involves burning archival paper or birch wood panels to create scorched, deeply textured imagery—often incorporating watercolour or rust to balance the elemental interplay of Fire and Water.
Her creative process is both performative and fragile: the act of burning can sometimes ignite artworks accidentally, reinforcing themes of vulnerability, danger, and regeneration embedded in her pieces. Her recent solo exhibition Beneath the Surface (2024) drew on childhood memories of diving into the Indian Ocean, where she used her burn-and-watercolour technique to render underwater creatures with vivid, primeval beauty—offering a lasting meditation on nature, memory, and connection.
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