Hushed Impressions

About

Hushed Impressions’ – a quiet place where only faint whispers can be heard.  

Take a journey into the experiences and realities of being visually impaired in a visual world.  

An array of unique perspectives transforms the Stables Gallery into a multisensory space. You are invited to touch and feel the artworks, exploring tactile surfaces. You will be surrounded by soft colours, dusty shadows, and smooth empty spaces which symbolize vision loss.  

Artist Bianca Raffaella has worked on an arrangement of stories and moods. She has intuitively responded to the themes of moving figures, gentle portraits, and atmospheric landscapes. 

As a visually impaired artist, Bianca Raffaella works with essential lines and tactile marks to describe her subjects, whether these are abstracted figures or atmospheric landscapes. The colour pallets Raffaella chooses are comprised of subtle and faded shades, which are distinctive to her work. She paints exactly what she sees and with the colours which she recognises as the most noticeable in her chosen compositions. For example, reflections from moving shapes that are prominent in Raffaella’s work describe how her eyes respond and fixate to light. Using the strength of her peripheral sight, she can replicate her visual perception to the sighted world.