Dazzling Canopies Above

Dalin Alejandrino is a Khmer-Australian abstract artist based on Gadigal and Wangal Land (Sydney, NSW, Australia). Her practice explores belonging, heritage, motherhood, and our connection to land and water.

Working primarily with acrylic and oil sticks, Alejandrino creates ethereal expressionism through layered colour, subtle textures and gestural mark-making. Her paintings move between inner and outer worlds, where each layer becomes a memory and each mark an emotional response to the world around her.

As the daughter of Cambodian refugees, Alejandrino (née Vann) migrated to Australia in 1987 after her early childhood life in a refugee camp along the border of Thailand and Cambodia. She draws inspiration from her motherland, family and the experience of belonging between places. Her work reflects the in-between — home and estrangement, nature and nurture, past and beauty of the present.

Through an expressive and intuitive process, Alejandrino's artworks invite us to pause, feel and reconnect with the quiet wonder held within landscape and everyday life. The whimsical brushwork and gentle layers evoke a deep search for ancestral healing and spiritual renewal.

Alejandrino is a self-represented artist and has exhibited with SIBU Gallery (Australia) and Michael Reid Northern Beaches and Southern Highlands (Australia). She has been a finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2024 contemporary category, and her works are held in private collections across Australia, North America, United Kingdom, and Singapore.