Billie the Acrobat
Zoe Porter
- Sitter: Billie Wilson-Coffey
- Medium: Watercolour
- Dimensions: 58cm x 61cm
- Representation: Onespace Gallery, Brisbane
About the artwork and sitter
Billie is an ensemble member of CIRCA, performing mesmerising aerial and acrobatics all over the world.
She joined the Spaghetti Circus at a young age and then continued to study performing arts/circus at NICA in Melbourne after finishing high school.
This portrait of Billie incorporates some of her other talents, with detailed patterning depicting her in a hat made from large macaranga leaves as a nod to her own botanical watercolour drawings.
‘Within the watercolour I wanted to capture Billie’s grace and physical strength. We collaborated on a live drawing performance together and this artwork references part of that performance.’
About the artist
Zoe Porter is a Meanjin based interdisciplinary artist. Her primary practice is drawing, but she often incorporates other mediums into her work including painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video.
Zoe exhibits regularly nationally and internationally. Her work frequently depicts the animal-human hybrid, blurring the boundaries between animal and human, real and imaginary.
