Anne Zahalka

The Reader (Ian Collie) 1988/2024

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silver dye transfer print, transparency, pocket, loupe, string
50 x 50cm image (70cm x 70cm) framed
1988/2024

Anne Zahalka has a career spanning over 40 years. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension, interrogating them with humour and a critical perspective. Deconstructing and revisiting familiar scenes and landscapes, she re-presents and reimagines them to allow for alternative narratives that reflect on cultural diversity and the ecological impact of the Anthropocene.

In 2023, Anne won the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize for Kunstkammer, a recreation of her studio which forms the centrepiece of Zahalkaworld – an artist’s archive, a touring survey show of the artist’s work by the Museum of Australian Photography.

Anne is represented by Dominik Mersch, Sydney and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne. She lives and works on Gadigal Land.