Presenting some of the most significant and enduring works from Petrina Hicks' celebrated archive. The artist's work includes large-scale photographs that draw from mythology, fables, and historical art imagery to re-frame the contemporary female experience. Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of psyche and identity, alluding to the complexity of female identity and the sentience of animals. 

Hicks is among Australia's most esteemed, globally recognised contemporary artists, having honed her distinctive photographic style and cemented her place at the forefront of her field over an extraordinary career spanning more than two decades. 

Mythologies also pairs Hicks's images with a series of sculptures by internationally celebrated WA-based artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, whose work similarly delights in chimerical forms, folkloric allusions, and beguiling encounters between humans and animals. Abdul-Rahman Abdullah is an artist living and working on Wadjuk Nyungar country, in the Peel region of Western Australia. His practice explores the intersections of identity, culture and nature.

MYTHOLOGIES IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MICHAEL REID SYDNEY + BERLIN, PERTH CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, THE CITY OF PERTH + MOORE CONTEMPORARY

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