Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson panellist at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery artist talk
We’re looking forward to hearing Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, who is an artist within our current Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, speak as one of the panellists at the Working with Communities: Artist Talk hosted by Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Co-presenting with Tami Xiang, the artists will talk about work they have respectively developed through working collaboratively with communities. Using multimedia and photography, diverse layers of emotion and concerns of culture, family and place are investigated and revealed.
Friday 22 July, 1 - 2PM at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Registration is essential
More details via the Facebook event.
About the artists:
Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson is an award-winning Iranian Australian Bahá’i video artist and researcher. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her research navigates the sharing of stories, understanding their essential role in healing and mental wellbeing, in response to traumatic contexts. Working in multi-channel video art installations, she intersects theatrical and cinematic performance with film-poetry, archives and sound, seeking to document as a witness, cultural stories that transcend beyond a locality into the human condition.
Tami Xiang is a Perth-based Chinese-Australian artist and academic scholar. She has achieved a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and is currently undertaking a Ph.D. by research at UWA. Xiang's work has been exhibited in Australia, Mainland China, France, Italy, Taiwan and the U.S. Her work has been published in the New York Times and the Eye of Photography in France, ABC, Artlink in Australia. Her practice has included conceptual documentary works that look at conditions for Chinese families in the countryside.
Image: Tami Xiang, Peasantography. Family portrait (detail), 2014, photography printing paper with hand-woven texture, 90 x 130cm
