Rebecca Trajkovski

Judgment; Something we all do, even when we don’t like to admit it. When it comes to art, who has the final say? Rebecca Trajkovski is ready for this engagement.

Working as a lawyer by day and a full-time mother she is finding the balance between it all while still making time for her incredible contemporary artworks. Often finding the time when her children are sleeping to maintain the discipline she has learned so well and to focus on her paintings.

Working and living in a world so heavily built on an opinion of judgment, she creates where judgment can be expressed without words and is instead liberated in a humble way upon canvas. Through colour, detail and experimentalism it is for the audience to perceive their own justice in her work.

Her style is adaptable in size, like a babushka doll. At first glance, it appears these works are larger in size, but upon closer inspection, they are everywhere in between. From large scale works to some even the size of a hand. Trajkovski’s attention to detail is a skill of its own and the works she forms are the keepers for generations forward.

“You Can’t Sit With Us” literally takes parody to this with the fluorescent orange and yellow that represent the uniform of tradespeople in the lining detail through each blazer. Inspired by “Ralph Lauren” a brand that is synonymous with an image of ‘success’ and which became the name, designer Ralph Lifshitz disliked the teasing he and his brother received in their youth. Our culture heavily encourages the luxury in which we appear, our consumerism and how we present to the world.

She is no stranger to the assumptions made by the work in which we do, not more so did she come to notice this than through the comparisons that are made to those who are white-collar and blue-collar workers and what is perceived by society as the image of success. She felt inspired to incorporate the fluorescent colour as a result of her partner’s hi-vis construction uniform.

She also felt inspired by her own experience dressing for the corporate world by day and changing into her ‘artist’ clothes, which consists of a hand me down a hi-vis jumper from her partner at night. The orange highlighted glasses of ‘Judgy Judgy’ break into the way of the elegant suit dressed man, does it really matter what we think when we can afford the finer things in life.

Painting works that follow the theme of motherhood, love, work and travel her works show more behind the subtle details of what truly may define the late-night therapy of her works. The representation of who we are in the details. 

Rebecca Trajkovski was interviewed April 2022.
By Danny Booth

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events:
Affordable Art Fair - June 02-04 2022
The Other Art Fair - July 21 - 24 2022