Petrina Hicks is an Australian artist, working with analogue photography she creates large-scale photographs drawing from mythology, fairy tales, and historical art imagery to re-frame the contemporary female experience.
Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of psyche and identity, alluding to the complexity of female identity and the sentience of animals.
The porous boundaries between human and animal states and the affinity of females and animals are central to her work.
Time travelling between past and future histories, Hick’s re-imagines myths, historical art imagery and fairytales, placing female stories at the centre.
Myths, fairy tales, and folklore help us to understand the nature of the world; of being human, animal and the divine.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
I acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work, Eora / Sydney.
I pay my respect to Indigenous Elders past, present & emerging.
photo @jodie_barker courtesy @michaelreidsydney