18/05/2026
Explore New Mythologies with Australian artist Petrina Hicks in this weeks Art &...Lecture🐉✨🧝♀️🐲
Photographer Petrina Hicks will discuss her art practice and the tension between familiarity and strangeness in her work. She will talk about her use of a hyperreal space to explore the psyche of females and animals.
Hicks’s will discuss the symbolism, archetypes, and myths she draws inspiration from when creating her own reimagined mythologies.
Petrina Hicks is an Australian artist who has gained a reputation for her large-scale photographs that explore representations of women and feminine iconography throughout art history and mythology.
The porous boundaries between human and animal states and the affinity of females and animals are central to her work.
Her work is held in many public collections including National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. .hicks
🗓Friday 22 May at 1pm
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Image captions: Mnemosyne VIII, 2025, 90 x 120cm, archival pigment print
Serpentina II, 2015, 100 x 100cm, archival pigment print