Portrait23: Identity is a major exhibition of new work from multi-award-winning contemporary Australian artists and collectives working across every state and territory. Street art, textiles, performance, photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, soft sculpture and bronze challenge the boundaries of portraiture. Many of the works move eloquently between installation, video, and animation, inviting you, the viewer, inside the portrait.
I was comissioned by the National Portrait Gallery of Australia to photograph the artist Angelici Mesiti for the exhibition catagogue. Angelica lives and works in Paris and the portrait was shot in the courtyard of her apartment building. Her piece for the exhibion had a plant life theme.
