About the artist

Dalin Alejandrino is a self-taught artist who creates abstract artworks, each embodying a sense of wonder and beauty in nature and its forms. Her works are a dialogue between motherhood and making as she navigates life, creativity, and her inner landscape through a world of visual storytelling.

Currently painting from her home studio in Sydney, her abstract expressionism is characterised by unconscious memories and cascading landscapes brought to life through subtle textures, whimsical brushwork, and the free-flowing movement of colour and mixed media.

Intuitively delving into the unknown when painting, her artistic energy draws on themes hovering between past and present, family and home, land and country. She utilises layer upon layer of acrylic and mixed media to create her artworks. Dalin’s ethereal works transcend the physical, leaning into the practice of feeling through the process. Each layer a memory, each mark an emotion, converging into abstract works that hover between her inner and outer worlds.

She was a Cambodian refugee, with her family having migrated to Australia in 1987, and often draws inspiration from her motherland. That estrangement from land and family is interconnected with her emotions while paying homage to family, motherhood, heritage, and provincial life. Her ethereal compositions channel the in-between – home and displacement, nature and nurture.

Dalin is a Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2024 Finalist. Her works can be found in private collections in Australia and internationally.