(b. 1995, Gresik, Indonesia)
Dini Nur Aghnia’s artistic practice reflects a profound exploration of the daily glories found in her natural surroundings and deep fascination with the landscapes of Yogyakarat, Indonesia–from the rugged mountains to the sprawling fields that shift with the passing light and ever-changing time of day.
Employing negative space and incorporating handicraft materials, such as beads, clay, and textiles, as medium, Dini captures and reconstructs her humbling experiences with nature in a unique and unconventional manner. Pushing the boundaries of traditional landscape painting, Dini forgoes rendering with photorealistic precision and rather reimages the scene through her inner world and subjectivity to create a visual language that evokes a sense of memory.
Dini’s work also discusses a perspective, a contemplation on life, that finds relevance beyond the immediate context of her hometown in Indonesia. It is a work that stands at the intersections of body, mind and culture.
— Dini Aghni’s The Sun Goes Down
Eya Beldia (Gajah Gallery)
Step to Shore
2025
Fabric Scraps
76 x 55 cm
Disparate fragments of some mountainous landscapes unfold in Dini Nur Aghnia’s Step to Shore in a puzzle-like formation. By forgoing the creation of a complete, whole representation, each uneven visual segment is meant to serve only as a partial, fleeting impression to reflect on how memories and occurrences are encapsulated and reminisced in our minds.
The Space Between The Swells
2025
Fabric Scraps
67 x 84 cm
In her latest works, Dini Nur Aghnia has turned to embrace the materiality of textiles. Fabric scraps are pieced together, in a grid, to compose the recollections of a landscape scene in The Space Between the Swells, as the familiar contours of hills and rivers reveal themselves through the quilt-like assemblage.
The practice of sculpting natural clay is a really unique process, and in it, I find a rather uncanny parallel to the way in which the screens we encounter today also comprise of these coloured pixels.
— Dini Aghni’s The Sun Goes Down
Eya Beldia (Gajah Gallery)
Kaleidoskop Telaga Warna (Kaleidoscope of Telaga Warna)
2024
Beads, Resin on Canvas
100 x 80.5 cm
Exploring the interplay between how the eye perceives form and how the mind recalls memories, Kaleidoskop Telaga Warna (Kaleidoscope of Telaga Warna) exemplifies Dini Nur Aghnia’s artistic approach to her beloved Indonesian landscapes – a fleeting impression grasped in fragments. In Dini’s almost prismatic arrangement of beads and resins, the picturesque beauty and mystical atmosphere of Telaga Warna, the colour-changing lake in Central Java, is encapsulated, with all its natural wonder.
Jalan Terbit (Dawning Road)
2021
Clay Flour on Canvas Board
200 x 122 cm
Intensely vivid and bright, Jalan Terbit (Dawning Road) bursts with the vibrant warm hues of red, orange, and yellow – it is a celebration of the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise. Here, Dini Nur Aghnia highlights the often overlooked small and quiet miracles that we should be grateful for in each passing day.
Down the Road
2021
Clay on Canvas
63.5 x 120 cm
The impression of a way trails across the horizon of Down the Road, incorporating a sense of narrative into the lush green landscape. Dini’s composition often evokes a sense of nostalgia and longing as her landscapes invite viewers to immerse themselves in the ephemeral subtleties of the captured moment – emphasising the irreplaceable wonder of every passing scene.