Anne Zahalka is one of Australia's most recognised artists working in photomedia, and has produced many iconic, idiosyncratic images of Australia's landscape and communities.
Anne Zahalka / Artist biography
Working in photomedia, Anne Zahalka's works play with different pictorial conventions, from oil painting and cinema to official portraiture and tourist postcards. Her work exhibits a strong connection to documentary photography. Major series of works include Wild Life, 2007, Natural Wonders, 2004, and Leisureland, 1999.
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A selection of Zahalka's Leisureland toured to Madrid for ARCO, to the Naarden FotoFestival, The Netherlands, and to Asia in the exhibition New Australiana. Recent exhibitions include Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987 – 2007, Melbourne and Canberra, and Supernatural Artificialis, 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. Zahalka's works are held in major public collections in Australia as well as private collections worldwide. Zahalka won the Leopold Godowsky Photography Award in 2005 and the Australian National Photographic Prize in 2007.
