Thea Anamaea Perkins

Thea Anamara Perkins’s painting engages portraiture as a site of representation and assertion. Drawing from family photographs, she selects intimate moments that carry emotional and historical weight, translating them into compositions that move between the personal, the political and activism. Her work addresses how First Nations people are seen and how images circulate, insisting on forms of self-representation grounded in family and community experience. Through a careful attention to gesture and expression, her paintings foreground tenderness as a force that shapes memory, visibility and cultural continuity.

With the support of the Australian Embassy in France and the Foundation for Franco-Australian Cultural Exchanges (FACEF)
In collaboration with Fondation OPALE