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pastiche//self portrait

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Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, shortlisted March 2019,

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Self Portrait//Pastiche is an examination of the process to mediate identities and inhabit space as a woman of mixed heritage in contemporary Australia. Being too much of one, to be the other simultaneously. This piece references the Japanese ceramic technique, kintsugi, where broken pieces are repaired with gold to accentuate rather than hide the points and act of repair.

I live and work on lutruwita, in nipaluna, muwinina country. I acknowledge the palawa peoples' deep connection to the land, sky and waters of this land as its continuing custodians and pay respects to their elders, past and present.

©2023 Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie

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