Collection Details

Name/TitleAutumnal Tree Log

About this objectMehrdad MehrAeen believes in improvisation through the art making process, which is also one of the most important hallmarks of Iranian traditional art making. Most of his artworks are created through the unconscious mind. His creative practice is an alchemy of the shapes, colours and forms of the natural world. He grounds his visual work in the beauty of the earthbound. The natural and esoteric mysteries of earth are a common theme that he especially explores in his calligraphic painting.

Letters as objects of geometric beauty, Persian shapes, dashes, dots and lines that derive from nature, juxtaposed to form patterns that move along a canvas to create an image, tell a story, and paint a picture. His influences in Australia remain with the natural environment. Themes of loneliness and isolation are part of this story. Mehrdad creates artworks with letters that are underpinned by strong conceptual patterns.

Mehrdad MehrAeen is a professional Iranian visual artist and musician with over 17 years’ experience. He showed an interest in calligraphy and painting when he was in middle school. Influenced by the works of Hosein Zenderoudi, he started to build and develop his arts practice during high school. He has studied graphic design in high school and continued in University.

He moved to Australia in 2013 as a refugee and continued his artistic endeavours. After finding himself to be totally alone and homesick, he started to research in loneliness, and explored his feelings through his artworks and focused on forms in nature of Australia.

After 5 years of work and research in loneliness, the artist held his first Australia exhibition at Peacock Gallery, Sydney in 2019. A few weeks after he won first prize in the 2019 Cumberland Art Award for his artwork, 'Water, Wind, Soil'.

In May 2019, one of Mehrdad's artworks was selected for a Hurstville Plaza public art project in Sydney. It was the first Farsi calligraphy painting in a public place in Australia.

MakerMehrAeen, Mehrdad

Maker RoleArtist

Date Made2020

Medium and MaterialsPolymer acrylic paint on canvas

Place MadeOceania, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney

TechniquePainted

Measurements120 h x 120 w x 5 d cm

Named CollectionBlacktown City Art Collection

Credit Line© Mehrdad MehrAeen
Acquired 2021, Future Proof exhibition
Blacktown City Art Collection

Object TypePainting

Object numberBCC MAN 001