| Artist | Selene Mauri Cochrane | Resides | Australia |
| Website | selenecochrane.com | Medium | Ceramic Textile |
| Shop | selenecochrane.com/shop | selenemcochrane@gmail.com | |
| Representing Gallery | Beinart Gallery Melbourne VIC, Australia | Themes | Symbolisim Folklore Origins of religion Divine feminine Mythology Nature Spirituality Esoterica Hybrids Iconography Fantasy Dark art Transcendence Animal Archetypes |
| Follow the Artist | Press |
About the artist
Selene Mauri Cochrane is a textile and mixed media artist living and working from her home-based studio in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Her practice is grounded in more than three decades of experience as a costume designer and maker, collaborating with Opera, Ballet, Performance Art, Circus, Contemporary and First Nations dance companies, among others. Now working full-time as an artist, she draws on her extensive skills in pattern making, dyeing, fabric manipulation, and embellishment, weaving these foundations seamlessly into her evolving passion for ceramics.
Her creative work is profoundly shaped by her personal experiences living with chronic pain caused by scoliosis and other health challenges. These ongoing realities fuel her drive to create pieces that rise above both emotional and physical suffering, transforming hardship into tactile, expressive forms. Through this process, Selene’s practice becomes not only an artistic pursuit but also a means of resilience, reflection, and healing.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Often dark and thought-provoking, Selene Mauri Cochrane’s work invites viewers to look inward and confront their own internal landscapes. Through recurring esoteric and existential themes—myth, fantasy, and a symbolic visual language—she brings forward truths that can be beautiful, uncomfortable, and often unspoken. Each piece is highly detailed and ornate, with every element meticulously crafted by hand, from ceramic pins and jewels to delicate hand-stitched lace and trims made on her antique Cornely machine. This commitment to fine craftsmanship echoes the layered, tangled nature of human experience.
Her art explores the creative and destructive forces that coexist within us, offering glimpses into parts of the self we don’t always acknowledge. Drawn to what is both strange and beautiful, she transforms thread and fabric into textures reminiscent of fur, feathers, flesh, and antlers, creating tactile surfaces that carry an air of mystery. These forms blur the boundaries between earthly and mystical realms, merging human and animal, dream and reality, innocence and darkness. In doing so, her work reflects the duality between the persona we show the world and the more complex truths beneath it—inviting viewers to consider where one ends and the other begins.
Press
Selene Mauri Cochrane’s creations have been featured in notable magazines and books including Art Katalyst Magazine, Enchanted, Diabolico II and Women to Watch.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| December 2025 | Group exhibition: ‘Waking Wonder’ | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
| December 2025 | Group exhibition: ‘Small Works’ | Field Trip Gallery Brisbane Australia |
| March 2026 | Group exhibition: ‘Brooch’ | Paper Boat Press Brisbane Australia |
| March 2026 | Group exhibition: ‘Labyrinth of Dreams’ | Poetic Tiger Idaho USA |
| July 2026 | Group exhibition: Starchild’ | The Inverarity Gallery Scotland |
| August 2026 | Group exhibition: ‘Small Works’ | Beinart Gallery Melbourne VIC, Australia |
| November 2026 | Solo exhibition: Yet to be announced | Artisan / Metro Gallery Brisbane Australia |
| November 2026 | Group exhibition: ‘Glimmer’ curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
CV
Education
1986
CN505 Certificate Course in Dress Design, Brisbane Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Vertu, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015
Sign Language, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Bound and Becoming, Curating/Artist Field Trip Gallery Brisbane Australia
Small Works, Field Trip Gallery Brisbane Australia
Daughters of Eve, Quirky Fox New Zealand
Death Mask, Field Trip Gallery Brisbane Australia
2024
Magical Objects, Field Trip Gallery Brisbane Australia
Field Trip, Field Trip Gallery Brisbane Australia
Small Works, Beinart Gallery Melbourne Australia
Wunderkammer, Beinart Gallery Melbourne Australia
2023
Antipodes, Beinart Gallery Melbourne Australia
Open Studio, Clairy Laurence Studio Brisbane Australia
Toddler Pillar, Beinart Gallery Melbourne Australia
Black and White, Metamorphosis Gallery Perth Australia
Open Studio, Clairy Laurence Studio Brisbane Australia
2022
Fool’s Menagerie, Paper Boat Press Brisbane Australia
Open Studio, Clairy Laurence Studio Brisbane Australia
2020
About Face, Artisan Brisbane Australia
2019
Open Studio, Clairy Laurence Studio Brisbane Australia
SNAP19, Aspire Gallery Brisbane Australia
Petite Pieces, Aspire Gallery Brisbane Australia
2018
Trash and Treasures Queer Art Exhibit, The Myx Brisbane Australia
Fable, Gatakers Gallery Maryborough Australia
2017
A Tropical State, First Coat Gallery Cairns Australia
World Science Festival, Qld Museum Brisbane Australia
2016
Disrupt, Jugglers Art Space Brisbane Australia
As Above So Below, Graydon Gallery Brisbane Australia
2015
Blue, Paper Boat Press Brisbane Australia
30 Years of QPAC Exhibition, The Tony Gould Gallery at The Cremorne Theatre Brisbane Australia
