Reveries Unravel

Stripping away the familiar and confronting the unknown, Jade Sibinovski’s painting practice is an ongoing fascination with the unseen, the unusual, and the uncanny. Through collage I chase the unexpected – often translating those discoveries into painted form.

Through assembling, dissecting, and overlapping fragments of coloured paper, inadvertent arrangements surface – shapes intersect, and abstract worlds coalesce from flat planes. Every cut inviting new possibilities. Forms emerge intuitively, conjuring juxtapositions and configurations that feel strangely alien – arriving unbidden from some far-off, elusive realm that lies just beyond the reach of conscious perception. She invites accident to lead, allowing what emerges to reveal itself on its own terms. This ongoing dance between precision and unpredictability is the heart of the process.

From these paper constructions, Sibinovski selects compositions and translates them onto canvas, aiming to capture their raw essence in painted form. “Not every collage resolves into a painting – and that uncertainty is what keeps the mystery alive. It preserves the sense that something unknowable has briefly surfaced, hovering between revelation and concealment. It’s the unknown announcing itself.”

This very uncertainty draws the viewer into the same threshold space: a quiet confrontation with what resists naming, yet insists on being seen—as Paul Klee observed, “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”