Angelina Mirabito
Alignment - Wunjo
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
160cm x 120cm x 5cm
$7500
Alignment engages coherence as a condition in which emotional experience gathers into unity. Wunjo reflects integration, where the elements of a system come into relation and hold together.
The surface brings together movement, texture, and colour into a balanced field. Gestures continue across the work in a sustained and stable manner, allowing the composition to hold as a whole. The painting carries the accumulation of the sequence, resolved into coherence.
The work establishes emotional experience as something that can align and stabilise through integration.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
Wunjo is the last rune of the first Aett of the Elder Futhark. Vibrant colours merge into one another, layered and curving brushstrokes connect across the canvas. The visual language carries a deep sense of love between individuals, allowing joy to be born and grow on the canvas. In this way, the piece conveys the achievement of harmony and fulfilment at the culmination of a creative journey.
Breath - Ansuz
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
160cm x 120cm x 5cm
$7500
Breath engages the movement of emotional experience through transmission. Ansuz reflects communication, resonance, and the flow of meaning between internal and external states.
The surface opens through lighter layers and fluid transitions, allowing movement to circulate across the work. Texture softens and disperses, creating a sense of permeability. Colour shifts into cooler tonal ranges, holding atmosphere and suspension.
The painting carries emotional experience as something that moves through the body and between individuals, shaped through breath and expression.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
The meaning of Ansuz is the God’s Breath, and the piece unfolds in the way its name speaks. In this work, Mirabito makes her visual language restrained and relatively rational, leaving space and freedom for the viewer to take a pause, contemplate and imagine. Its light, soft textures and fresh palette lift us away from heavy narratives and dense emotions, allowing us to encounter something gentler and find serenity in the embrace of the divine.
Emergence - Fehu
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
160cm x 120cm x 5cm
$7500
Emergence engages the activation of emotional energy at the moment it begins to move. Fehu describes a condition in which intensity circulates before it stabilises into form. Emotional experience appears here as movement, as a force that gathers through interaction and begins to generate structure.
The surface develops through layered directional gestures that move across the canvas, creating a sense of expansion and propulsion. Colour holds warmth and density, carrying the energy of initiation. Earlier layers remain present within the work, contributing to a depth that reflects accumulated experience.
The painting holds the moment in which feeling becomes active, where energy begins to organise itself through engagement.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
Orange and pink tones, interwoven with touches of gold, echo the fiery, creative raw energy represented by the rune Fehu. Long, bold, and heavy brushstrokes add a strong sense of movement to the work, reminding us of the ceaseless river flow, full of raw vitality. The flowing river leads our gaze beyond the canvas, leaving a sense of openness and uncertainty. The visual extension not only symbolises a continuous prosperity that may last across centuries, but also hints at the universal flux: all things pass, and nothing stays. As Heraclitus believed, you cannot step twice into the same river.
Threshold - Thurisaz
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
160cm x 120cm x 5cm
$7500
Threshold engages boundary as a condition that shapes emotional experience. Thurisaz reflects the moment in which force is directed, forming distinction and allowing relation to occur through structure.
The composition is defined through a strong directional division that concentrates energy along its axis. Material gathers and shifts across this boundary, creating tension that holds the work in balance. The surface carries both density and clarity, reinforcing the presence of structure.
The painting establishes honouring one's boundaries as a generative force, shaping how emotion is experienced and contained.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
The visual elements convey an energy of chaos, within which we encounter struggle, challenge, confusion, vulnerability, and unease. In contrast to the work on the left, Passage, Threshold presents a more disruptive force. The palette knife and brushwork, together with colours, blur the path of the rune Thurisaz, symbolising an exploration of limits and a breaking of order. After destruction comes freedom, and new rules begin to emerge.
Exchange - Gebo
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
120cm x 120cm x 5cm
$5500
Exchange engages relation as a condition through which emotional experience is shaped. Gebo reflects reciprocity, connection, and the dynamic of giving and receiving.
The composition is structured through intersecting movements that create points of contact across the surface. These intersections establish a field of interaction, where elements remain distinct while held in relation. Texture and colour reinforce this balance.
The painting holds emotional experience as relational, formed through exchange between self and other.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
When viewed up close, the rich colours intertwine, reminding us of springtime. Colours and textures meet, collide, and connect, while the intensity of emotion seems to almost spill beyond the canvas, expressing a generous way of giving. Yet when we step back and take in the work as a whole, the composition reveals a sense of harmony and stability, talking to the rune Gebo and its idea of balance in exchange. It seems that all the movement and emotion are still unfolding within a certain order, governed by a rhythm that cannot be escaped.
Formation - Uruz
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
120cm x 120cm x 5cm
$5500
Formation engages the consolidation of emotional experience into a state that can be held. Uruz reflects embodied presence, where energy gathers into strength and stability.
The work condenses movement into density, creating a surface that holds weight through internal structure. Texture builds through pressure and repetition, forming a field that feels grounded and contained. The palette draws on mineral tones that reinforce a sense of material presence.
The painting establishes emotional experience as something that can be carried, held within the body and sustained over time.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
The rune Uruz symbolises the enduring strength of Niflheim, the homeland of primordial darkness and ice in Norse mythology. In this work, we see irregular, disorderly brushstrokes, as if expressing struggle and disorientation within chaos in Niflheim. Yet we also see hope: warm yellows and earthy tones tell a story of resistance, an attempt to overcome coldness and darkness. The inevitability of endings and sufferings is then transformed into resilience, leaving open the possibility of new life and new beginnings.
Passage - Raido
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
120cm x 120cm x 5cm
$5500
Passage engages continuity as a condition through which emotional experience is sustained. Raido reflects movement structured through rhythm, allowing feeling to unfold across time.
The surface develops through repeated gestures that create pathways across the canvas. These movements establish a sense of direction and pacing, allowing the work to hold continuity. Texture reflects the accumulation of action, while the palette remains grounded and cohesive.
The painting establishes emotional experience as a journey, shaped through rhythm and progression.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
Colour blocks jump and interplay across the canvas, revealing the uncertainty and multiplicity of our life journey. From the visible path mapped by the rune Raido to the thoughtful palette knife strokes that unfold across the rest of the canvas, there lies a rhythm beneath complexity, signifying an inevitable order in the universe. The rune Raido invites us to trust the journey, where we may seek to explore, endure, accept or resist it, but we can never fully control it.
Where the Light Enters - Kenaz
Angelina Mirabito
Mixed media on canvas
2026
120cm x 120cm x 5cm
$5500
Where the Light Enters engages illumination as the condition through which emotional experience becomes visible. Kenaz reflects clarity, awareness, and the capacity to perceive structure within feeling.
The work develops through contrast and exposure, allowing light to emerge across the surface. Layers shift between density and openness, revealing underlying formations. The composition holds a balance between concealment and revelation.
The painting carries the moment in which understanding forms, where emotional experience becomes perceptible through attention.
Perspective of Louisa Chu
Kenaz is the rune of heat and light. Portrayed through thick textures and dynamic brushstrokes, the work evokes a burning, moving flame that speaks of warmth and transformation. A gentle light enters from the right side, symbolising illumination and inspiration. When fire meets light, the surrounding energy and hope guide us through darkness. However, there is also an emerging force that appears out of control, making us curious and uncertain about what comes next.
About Angelina
Angelina Mirabito is a Melbourne-based Italian-Australian interdisciplinary contemporary artist with a PhD in Creative Writing, whose work explores texture, gestural mark-making, and immersive colour. Using palette knives, mixed media, and layered techniques, her practice produces large-scale, dynamic abstractions that engage with transformation, movement, and spatial relationships.
Her exhibitions span gallery and design settings, including Melbourne Design Week (NGV), Melbourne Design Show, Affordable Art Fair Melbourne, and numerous solo and group presentations within artist-led initiatives.
Mirabito has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions Elastic Heart (Docklands Library, 2024), Migrant Women (Le Grange Gallery, 205), Dignity (Art2ArtSpace, 2024), Transience (Ladder Art Space, 2023), and Embers (Romulus Folio Gallery, 2025).
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as the Biennale of Colour & Light (West End Art Space, 2024), Merri-bek Summer Show: (Be)Longing (Counihan Gallery, 2024), the Feel Good Art Prize (Quadrant Gallery, Finalist, 2025), and the Albert Park Art Show (People’s Choice Nominee, 2024).
Mirabito collaborates with designers and interdisciplinary artists, including Mark Alexander, extending her abstract practice into installation and spatial design contexts.
As the lead interdisciplinary artist, curator and ongoing artist-in-residence at Romulus Folio, Angelina oversees collaborative exhibitions, cross-disciplinary projects, and immersive programs that champion experimental contemporary art in South Melbourne.
