Two Sided Self 2016 — Amber Koroluk-Stephenson

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Amber Koroluk-Stephenson

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson

Additional work

Portia Geach Memorial Award 2016

S.H Ervin Gallery, Gadigal Land / Sydney

Two Sided Self, 2016, oil on canvas,91.5 x 76 cm
Two Sided Self
Two Sided Self depicts the artist in a familiar and romanticised bush setting, where the subject partly conceals her face with glove-clad hands that imitate Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. This self portrait playfully hints at theatre, surrealism, traditional Australian landscape painting and the European gaze to explore human interactions with the natural environment, relationships between native and introduced species, and complexities in Australian landscape, place, being and belonging.

I acknowledge the Muwinina and Melukerdee People of lutruwita/Tasmania as the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work. I pay my respect to their Elders past and present.

© Amber Koroluk-Stephenson 2025