ANNE ZAHALKA Featured Artist Profile in Openbook | The State Library of NSW

August 7, 2024

A profile on Anne Zahalka has been featured in the Spring edition of Openbook: the award-winning magazine published through the State Library of NSW.

Brett Evans writes: “Zahalka’s witty reworkings of these iconic images have themselves become iconic … During a 45-year career, she’s created over 40 solo exhibitions, taken part in countless group shows and won numerous prestigious prizes … Last year she mounted a major survey show at the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne called Zahalkaworld: An artist’s archive … At the heart of Zahalkaworld is a piece called Kunstkammer (a ‘wonder room’, in German, something used for storing curiosities). It’s a re-creation to scale of her home studio, the engine room of her life as an artist.” Read the full article here.

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Image caption: Anne Zahalka at Bondi, June 2024. Photo by Joy Lai.