Collection: Mina Helen Elhami Manesh

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Mina Elhami-Manesh is an Australian artist of Iranian and Lebanese heritage, born and based in Sydney. She utilises bold and graphic forms of printmaking, photography, and drawing to explore and structure intensely personal and external experiences. She examines and subverts the complex nature of these relationships via a frame of heritage, spirituality, lineage, grief and healing. Manesh's work combines various techniques and materials, including silk screening, textiles, digital media, handwriting and collage simultaneously. Her practice revolves around the structure of the archive and memory in both concept and material. She does this by creating, adopting and reclaiming existing images and texts. Often featuring process-driven, culturally significant motifs, texts, materials and handwriting, Manesh examines the fluidity of language and comprehension in visual and textual forms. The artist’s discipline reflects her contemplations in relation to the world around her, as her medium binds itself to a legacy of distribution and consumption for audiences. Through printmaking’s requirement for multiplicity, precision and structure, she captures the paradoxical needs of existing today: the necessity to remain sharp, crisp and calculated when presenting while also adhering to the underlying urge to open up and distribute.