"Adipocere crafts intricate, macabre illustrations on natural linen using hand embroidery, blending innocence with unsettling melancholy and surrealism. Themes draw from occult motifs, danse macabre, vanitas, death and the maiden, spiders, bats, skulls, and existential concepts like martyrdom and impermanence."
"The work often portrays raven-haired maidens interacting with skeletons, goats, and deadly flora. Motifs symbolize emotional self-portraits with irony, camp, and retro charm—tender, humorous, subtly disturbing pieces that explore existential themes through sustainable natural linen and temporary skin stitching."
Adipocere is a Melbourne-based embroidery artist who specializes in hand-stitched, intricate illustrations on natural linen. The work combines innocence with unsettling melancholy and surrealist elements, drawing heavily from occult motifs, danse macabre, vanitas symbolism, and themes of death and mortality. Recurring imagery includes raven-haired maidens, skeletons, goats, spiders, bats, skulls, and deadly flora. The artist uses natural linen for sustainability and creates temporary pieces stitched directly on skin. These motifs function as emotional self-portraits infused with irony, camp, and retro charm, presenting tender yet subtly disturbing explorations of martyrdom and impermanence.
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