wa portrait artists
Anna Nazzari
Anna Nazzari is a Perth-based artist, whose practice is invested in exploring the relationships humans have with animals through absurd, gothic, sci-fi, and supernatural themes. Her practice incorporates sculpture, photography, film and drawing but in recent years, her primary focus has been oil painting. Within this domain, she is interested in disturbing or disrupting aspects of realism to allow the unreal to flourish.
Nazzari was a finalist in the 2023 Lester Art Prize for Portraiture and significant past exhibitions include the 2022, Perth Festival: Strangers on the Shore and the 2020 Adelaide Biennial: Monster Theatres. She has exhibited locally and interstate and, her collaborative and non-collaborative screen-based works have been shown at numerous international film festivals. Nazzari is collected by the Art Gallery of South Australia. In 2011, she completed a Doctorate of Philosophy (Art) on the absurd fate of gender ambiguous narratives. She currently works as an art Lecturer at Curtin University.