Louiseann Zahra-King

Dr LOUISEANN ZAHRA-KING is a sculptor/installation artist and academic based in Melbourne, Australia where she is the Curator/Coordinator of RMIT School of Art Galleries, RMIT University. In 2006 she completed a Doctorate in Philosophy at Monash University where she held the Monash Silver Jubilee Scholarship. Zahra-King is the recipient of many grants and prizes including an Asialink Residency for travel to India in 2006 where she constructed her solo exhibition A Bird Readies the Soul and Moves it to Tenderness (2006) at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi. Zahra-King’s practice utilizes a range of media including textiles, metal casting, glass, sound, film and photography.

Louiseann Zahra-King's practice explores notions of longevity, permanence, mortality and the ephemeral nature of existence. She is particularly interested in ritual in contemporary society and as historical/cultural occurrence and this was a major theme in her PhD research – A Ritual for Making. Zahra-King’s work has long-featured discarded objects, in particular domestic, hand-made textiles. Zahra-King is moved by the quiet drama of the discarded and it is these peripheral objects that act as a catalyst for her practice.

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