Min Ray

Min Ray is an emerging visual artist based in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Min found her own creative voice in creating visual stories through abstraction and the power of colours. This also becomes her way of validating her own unique presence in the world.

Min Ray’s signature painting style is hard-edge geometric abstraction. Like its name, Geometric Abstraction involves geometric shapes. For Min it is about creating order through chaos using the simplest elements like dots, lines, angles. Putting these simplest elements together can either create complicated compositions or minimalist arrangements.

Min Ray uses geometric shapes to tell stories. Sometimes, shapes can represent things in real life, such as a person, an object or a place. By arranging these shapes and letting them interact with each other, stories are told. Colours are another tool, not only to represent things found in nature, but to associate them with emotions and feelings.

In her exploration of such topics, she believes that everyone has significant memories embedded within them that are associated with the five human senses. To Min, these senses eventually feedback and form one’s identity and sense of self. It encourages the viewer to use their imagination, sometimes their subconscious mind to interpret the work. This process of both the artist and the viewer using their imagination to experience life in a different dimension can expand their real-life experience to another level.