New Dimensions: A Shared Language Of Motherhood and Making

A dialogue between motherhood and making, New Dimensions traces the shared rhythms of artists Dalin Alejandrino and Emma Dillion Hill as they navigate life, creativity, and self-expression.

Words HANDE RENSHAW Photos EMMA DILLON HILL

Soft gradients of pigment and pastel by Emma Dillion Hill—layered abstractions that explore feeling, memory, and the beauty found in everyday moments.

Artists Dalin Alejandrino and Emma Dillion Hill come together for New Dimensions at The Corner Gallery Stanmore.

Dalin Alejandrino’s layered compositions evoke landscape, memory, and emotion—each canvas an intuitive exploration of feeling through form.

Artist Dalin Alejandrino at work in her studio, layering memory and emotion through intuitive brushwork.

Emma Dillion Hill blending soft pigments by hand in her outdoor studio—a meditative process of layering colour, light, and emotion through delicate abstraction.

“This exhibition celebrates a friendship built on mutual support, encouragement, and a deep understanding of the dualities we navigate—as mothers and makers.”

— Emma Dillon Hill

A tactile palette of crushed pigments and soft pastels—materials at the heart of Emma Dillion Hill’s layered and emotive abstractions.

A glimpse into Dalin Alejandrino’s studio process—oil sticks, brushes, and instinctive mark-making tools that channel emotion into richly layered works.

At The Corner Gallery Stanmore, Emma Dillion Hill and Dalin Alejandrino present New Dimensions—a compelling conversation between creative expression and the lived experience of motherhood.

The artist’s exhibition, New Dimensions, is more than a duo art show; it’s a shared space of empathy, rhythm, and reinvention.

Bound by friendship and a deep mutual understanding, Emma and Dalin navigate the dual roles of artist and mother with vulnerability and strength. Their practices are distinct—Emma works with pigment and pastel in layers of soft abstraction, while Dalin’s intuitive approach embraces free-flowing movement through acrylic and mixed media. Yet in the contrast, there’s harmony. Their works respond to one another with quiet resonance, each unfolding in a language shaped by feeling, memory, and connection.

Emma’s process is steeped in the everyday—drawing on moments of beauty within the mundane and translating internal emotion into form. ‘My practice has held me in times when only a creative outlet could,’ she shares, referencing the chaos and emotional weight of parenting. Her use of delicate pigments and soft matte pastels evokes both fragility and intensity, a deliberate tension that invites the viewer inward.

Dalin, a self-taught artist and daughter of Cambodian refugees, paints from her Sydney home studio, layering memory, landscape, and emotion into abstract works that hover between worlds. ‘My paintings come from a place beyond the physical,’ she explains. ‘They are about feeling through the process, rather than painting what I know.’ Her ethereal compositions channel the in-between—home and displacement, past and present, family and country.

New Dimensions honours this layered complexity. The exhibition reflects not only the individual journeys of two artists, but also the strength of creative companionship. Through colour, form, and process, Emma and Dalin hold space for one another—for all the quiet truths of womanhood, artistic practice, and self-evolution.

What emerges is not just an aesthetic conversation, but a deeply felt exchange—where creativity becomes a shared language and art a constant in an ever-changing world.

New Dimensions
Emma Dillion Hill & Dalin Alejandrino
14–20th May
The Corner Gallery Stanmore