ANNE ZAHALKA & PAT BRASSINGTON are featured in On Display: The story of Artbank - a landmark publication which chronicles the evolution of Artbank as one of Australia’s most visible and visionary art collections and its role in shaping the national cultural landscape since 1980.
Among the iconic works held in the collection are Anne Zahalka’s The Bather and The Surfers (1989), part of her celebrated series Bondi: Playground of the Pacific. With a critical lens on place, identity and representation, Zahalka reimagines Australian culture through staged portraits set against a painted backdrop of Bondi.
Also, featured in the publication is Pat Brassington's 'Lisp', 1997, which displays a child's face emerges from a watery space as if caught in a dream, speaking to her exploration of digital manipulation and the performativity of the photographic medium.
