HEART’S EYE BY KATRINA LEZAIC

Exhibition dates. 21 Sep - 2 Oct 2022
Opening Reception : Thur 22 Sep 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm.

Heart’s Eye

Heart's Eye is an exhibition of photographic works by Katrina Lezaic in response to the poetry of Melbourne artist and writer, Simon Petkovich. Lezaic’s images respond to the aesthetic and rhythmic quality of Petkovich's poems by editing, rearranging, repurposing and juxtaposing images accrued over 20 years of photographic practice. The finished works combine 2D and 3D elements from digital photography and film, imbued with the artist’s personal journey, memories and life experiences. With an interest in the power of intuition, the works are meditations on the "infra-ordinary" - the non-event and the everyday. Here, everything boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin.

The Artist

Katrina Lezaic is an Australian photographer, writer and conceptual artist. Lezaic's work is distinguished by her interests in identity, intimacy and documentation. The combination of spontaneous and carefully arranged moments have been important to the development of her practice over the past decade. With over 10 years’ experience as a reporter, Lezaic’s work frequently depicts the increasingly blurred boundaries between the private and the public, the voyeuristic and theatrical. Having studied design at UTS and fine art at UNSW under Prudence Murphy and Hayden Fowler, her first solo show was in 2017 at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery, and in 2019 she undertook a 12-month residency in Paddington as part of the Woollahra Artist in Residence program. Last year, she was awarded an Arts grant from Flying Arts and Australian Government Regional Arts Fund for her exhibition at the Cooroy Butter Factory in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, where she works from her studio and gallery space.

The Artwork