Great Alpine Gallery artist-in-residence Sofie Dieu fell in love with East Gippsland, its people and its natural environment.

“People are my inspiration. I capture the essence of their lives, I celebrate their story. It is always the people and their bound to their environment that I remember. I treasure the local, the small scale, the fringe. I find beauty in hidden and remote places. My work echoes what is made out of fragile poetry. What some consider the middle of nowhere is the centre of my world.” - Sofie Dieu