Unseen Threads
Dhishni De Silva
2
April 2025
2
April
2025
10
May 2025
Library
Unseen Threads is a personal exploration of identity, change, and the quiet significance of the everyday. This body of work began through simple acts of observation and self-reflection - watching, noting, and responding to the shifting rhythms of daily life.
These paintings engage with the subtle, often overlooked moments that shape our inner worlds. A passing light, a change in season, a feeling that arrives without explanation - through abstraction, these fragments are given form, yet remain open to interpretation. Ambiguity becomes a space of generosity, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and emotional landscapes into dialogue with the work.
The series resists resolution. Just as life refuses to stay still, so too do these paintings embrace flux and uncertainty. In this way, Unseen Threads becomes a visual meditation on transition - on how we evolve, unravel, and re-form, moment by moment.
Unseen Threads is a personal exploration of identity, change, and the quiet significance of the everyday. This body of work began through simple acts of observation and self-reflection - watching, noting, and responding to the shifting rhythms of daily life.
These paintings engage with the subtle, often overlooked moments that shape our inner worlds. A passing light, a change in season, a feeling that arrives without explanation - through abstraction, these fragments are given form, yet remain open to interpretation. Ambiguity becomes a space of generosity, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and emotional landscapes into dialogue with the work.
The series resists resolution. Just as life refuses to stay still, so too do these paintings embrace flux and uncertainty. In this way, Unseen Threads becomes a visual meditation on transition - on how we evolve, unravel, and re-form, moment by moment.
Dhishni De Silva
Dhishni De Silva is a Melbourne-based painter whose practice embraces abstraction as a language for feeling, memory, and intuitive response. Working with vibrant colour, fluid forms, and layered mark-making, Dhishni’s work is guided by spontaneous gesture and an attentiveness to the world around her.
Influenced by the natural environment, daily rituals, and emotional nuance, her paintings capture a sense of movement and transformation - reflecting life’s complexities without fixing them into a single reading.
Dhishni completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at RMIT in 2024, and is currently undertaking Honours. Her evolving practice continues to explore abstraction as a mode of self-inquiry, offering viewers open-ended spaces for reflection and connection.