Arna lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne
“I walk with my dog. I hold a pen to a sketchbook; my walking body dictates 'accidental' scribbles. My mood—often troubled—dictates the marks I draw on top of the body's walking-drawing, while watching YouTube #vanlife, pursuing my dream to live full-time in a van.
Collage layers slip in and out of my video, in a dream-like sense. It unfolds as witness to unconscious desires and conflicts, expressed in the fiction I created with my imaginary porn star friend, Miranda.
My video, drawing and collage grapple with the internal conflicts of sexuality, jealousy and doubt; the power of vulnerability.
These states are almost-universal, bodily things. A little intellectual understanding is applied to my practice as it continues to unfold in my Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis.”
Some images on this site are captured through a scanner Solo Exhibitions:
2021-22 Which bed? Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
2009 Bull, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions:
2021 ILFORD CCP Salon, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2020 VCA Art 2020, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2018 Piki Mai, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand Beyond Boundaries, Melbourne Art Fair
#fromwhereistand, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
2017 Magic Fountain, VCA Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2016 Graduate Certificate of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition, VCA Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts,
University of Melbourne
2014 Short Course Exhibition, VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2008 bold & beautiful, MREAM Studios, Melbourne
Gone West, the Eviction Show, Gabrielle Gallery, Melbourne
Small Works Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
MREAM Scream, MREAM Studios, Melbourne
2007 Tales Of The West, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne
Loose Threads, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
Industrial Show, MREAM Studios, Melbourne
Curves & Purves, MREAM Studios, Melbourne
UnReal an Open Abstract Show, MREAM Studios, Melbourne
1996 Made in the Nicholas Building, Siri Omberg Gallery, Melbourne
MASSART, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
1995 Kiss Me Honey, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
1994 The Meeting, Art Centre Melbourne
1990 Here and There, Red Door Space, Melbourne
That Show, Red Door Space, Melbourne
Prizes:
Shortlisted 2008 Williamstown Festival Art Prize, The Substation Art Centre, Melbourne
Shortlisted 1996 Working Art Visual Art Prize, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
Natalie King OAM includes Arna in her tour of VCA ART 2020
Selected Participant & Board Member
VCA Access Mentorship Program selected student participant
Board Member Gallery Committee, The Library Artspace, J Studios, Melbourne
Education:
2020 Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2016 Graduate Certificate of Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
1995 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne