Polixeni papapetrou biography for kids
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I loved the way the masks gave the children a new identity which could speak in a more universal way about the condition of being human.
Introduction
Polixeni Papapetrou was an artist, and she was a mother. Unusually, she wove the journey of parenthood directly into her art practice. Not only this, she empowered first her daughter Olympia and later her son Solomon to be collaborators in this process, and so bring the child’s imagination directly into the grown-up world of art.
A collection of party masks based on nineteenth-century designs became the inspiration for the first series of work, ‘Phantomwise’. Despite the simplicity of the disguise, it is curiously convincing. The series takes its title from a short poem at the end of the children’s story ‘Through the Looking Glass’ (1871). The story is by an Anglican deacon, academic mathematician and amateur photographer called Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known to us now under his pen name of Lewis C
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Polixeni Papapetrou
Australian photographer (1960–2018)
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Polixeni Papapetrou with her works at a 2012 show at Melbourne's Nellie Castan Gallery | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1960-11-21)21 November 1960 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 April 2018(2018-04-11) (aged 57) Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Alma mater | University of Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||
| Known for | Photography | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Style | Photography, painting, scenic backdrops, landscape, childhood | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Robert Nelson, art critic, The Age[citation needed] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2017 MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize 2016 Windsor Art Prize 2015 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elected | Centre for Contempo • Polixeni PapapetrouDescriptionA new series of monographs on Australian female artists, selected with series editor Natalie King, curator and Enterprise Professor at the Victorian College of the Arts. These books are compact yet perfectly formed. They comprise 96 pages of the artist’s favourite works – designed for optimum visual impact and to reach anyone who is inspired by art and beauty. The ytterligare frisson for these titles comes in the introduction. For each monograph, one luminary from another field will write a anställda, powerful essay of 1200 words. It could be an ode to one particular painting; it could be a parallel narrative inspired by themes in the artist’s work. Additional information
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