Emma Zanettin Shaw

Mila Petersen

Emma is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and visual culture enthusiast living and working in Wurundjeri country in Naarm/Melbourne. She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Languages, majoring in art history and Italian. She has since moved on to tackling a Master of Art Curatorship. Recently, her practice has grown intrigued by how technology mediates our experiences and has infiltrated our language – ‘doing it for the ‘gram,” anyone? She hopes to create art that engages with the almost obligatory performativity that living has become, questioning the ways we document our lives and the reasons we do.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.