Mira Gojak

Mira Gojak is an Australian artist who was born in Adelaide in 1963 and now works in Melbourne. Her sculptures are like linear drawings in space, tracing the forces of gravity and suspension that we can feel. They create a sense of inside and outside space. Gojak is also known for her drawings. She has been awarded several times and has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Hong Kong.

Biography and education

In Adelaide, Gojak's immigrant parents were active in the Catholic Slovenian and Croatian community. Mira has said that she felt she grew up in two different cultural and social worlds. Her mother wanted her to be a doctor, and Mira achieved First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and animal behaviour Psychology,

In 2012, her work was included in 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, published by the National Gallery of Victoria.

Works Her sculptures, which often include colour, are like her drawings on paper that are only in black-and-white.

Her works are very linear in both drawing and sculpture. When asked what attributes of line were important, she replied: "Fluidity and movement, the ability to scramble fixed boundaries, by eradicating boundaries or making them permeable or resetting and clarifying the boundary itself."