Biography
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Lada Dedić is a maker of useless objects who utilises the intricate, almost surgical process of repetitive stitching to document the passage of time while exploring themes of neuroscience, microbiology, meditative contemplation and the interplay of science and art. She is best known for the intricate cross-stitched self-portraits of her own brain. A slow art practitioner, she also constructs hand-knitted wine glasses which are inherently empty and sculpts unwearable pieces of clothing which she pathologises with psychobabble.
Lada enjoys playing with cartography, having a peculiar relationship with direction has led her to make some peculiar maps. Her maps would have the most seasoned navigator lost and off on an adventure.
Not a picture maker, yet sometimes she paints… but only horizontal lines.
The child of political refugees - forever displaced - Lada spends her year in residency travelling as an artist and maker or hiding in a metaphorical cave somewhere as a somewhat reclusive hermit. Her home base is currently Melbourne with a portion of the year spent in Kuala Lumpur. She recently relocated from her space of seven years at Square One Studios Sydney, she has an ongoing relationship with the vibrant arts community there.
She has been dubbed an “analogue nomad”… Recently, Lada completed a Physics x Engineering x Fine-Art residency at The Australia National University Makerspace where she had access to a myriad of technology including AR/VR, 3D-scanning, lasers, 3D-Printing. No longer solely analogue; still a nomad.
As a travelling artist, she is a proud alumni of Parramatta Artists Studios, Square One Sydney, School House Studios Melbourne, Salamanca Arts Centre Hobart, Lighthouse Arts Newcastle, ANU Makerspace and Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia.
Specialising in: sci-art, neuro-art, slow art, cartography, 3D printing, contemplative needlework and unexpected sandwich fillings - peanut butter and green capsicum anyone?
Note: Lada wrote this enchanting biography herself (except for the “almost surgical” part; that was plagiarised from The Lancet’s article on my - I mean - her work), it is presented here in the third person as is the current convention.
“I believe that artists and musicians have a great responsibility to serve or to help humanity… we pay too much attention to material development or the economic side of these things so our potential does not have the chance to develop and grow… I think it is the responsibility of all of humanity, but particularly you musicians and artists, through your own profession to give people hope… so give them hope, we have good potential if we open up our mind, make effort, we have the ability to overcome all these problems and all this suffering. So I think you can utilise your own profession to give the people new ideas and new hope and a sense of personal responsibility.”
– His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama (1995)