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Thea Anamara Perkins: reverie.
N.Smith Gallery, 30 Jan - 7 Feb 2026

Thea Anamara Perkins: reverie.: N.Smith Gallery

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  • ‘Reverie’ evokes the state of daydreaming, of being adrift between dreams and wakefulness.


    In Thea Anamara Perkins' new exhihition, the artist draws on archival images of her family, treating the photograph as a threshold rather than a fixed record. The exhibition ties to 'the glimmer', a central motif in her practice: brief, luminous flashes of feeling that surface before the story can. It gently centres figures in repose and in moments of peace. Reflecting, imagining, dreaming.


    Thea invites us to consider how we inherit images, and how the past returns, altered, and alive. As well as the agency of memory, emotion and love within the process of reflection.

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    • Thea Anamara Perkins reverie, 2025-26 acrylic on board 90 x 120 cm
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      reverie, 2025-26
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  • ‘It’s about taking charge of representation – I find that painting is a very simple and direct way of communicating...

    ‘It’s about taking charge of representation – I find that painting is a very simple and direct way of communicating things that I want to say.’

    Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist whose practice incorporates portraiture and landscape to question representations of First Nations peoples and Country. With a delicate hand, Thea answers heavy questions about what it means to be First Nations in contemporary Australia, and interrogates portrayal.
     
    Raised and based in Sydney, Thea has family ties to the Redfern community and has worked in a broad range of community projects. Thea was the recipient of the 2023 La Prairie Art Award, administered by The Art Gallery of NSW, and won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2021, and the Alice Prize & Dreaming Award in 2020.
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