Process Micheila Petersfield
Nov 04, 2020
2 minutes
As a teenager living in rural southern Tasmania, I started taking self-portrait photographs. Growing up I felt the distant influence of fashion and advertising media and, through self-portraiture, aspired to emulate the glossy images of femininity I saw on those magazine pages.
The influence of idealised media images on my own experiences of girlhood and womanhood have made a lasting impression on my practice. My work borrows from
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