Deborah Durban
Art Form
Visual Artist
Media
Collage
Painting
Drawing
Lego art
Artist Bio
Deborah is a life long artist who has lived in the Zion Canyon area of Utah for over twenty years. A mixed media artist who uses book arts, iPad and other forms of media to create imagery and art pieces that offer intrigue and dialogue to the viewer. She was trained at Wimbledon School of Art, London, and at Brighton and Sussex University, in England.
She has had a neurological condition known as Transverse Myelitis since 2007. With the condition also comes with a limited energy level, amongst other problems. Collaging enables her to remain an artist by working in short sessions in her home studio.
Some of the artists who have influenced her recent work, include: Alice Neel, Paula Rego, Grayson Perry and David Hockney.
Artist Statement
Always fascinated by ‘portraits’ Deborah Durban has in the last few years been seeking different ways to express the genre: for her it was LEGO bricks and fantastical collage portraits.
The LEGO works came about initially during the Covid lockdown and discovering that this was a good medium to do original art work, including portraits. They are a simplified ‘realistic’ portrait, yet still look like LEGO and the person.
In SIBLING II Deborah has also used sari twine for the hair.
Deborah has been working with collage for several years now, and her recent works are more fantastical than realistic, combining the perceived human head and shoulders form with her own decorated papers, found imagery of clothing, flowers, birds and facial features, creating a narrative that is all in the viewers mind.
