Prita Tina Yeganeh | The Churchie People’s Choice Award 2024

Onespace congratulates Prita Tina Yeganeh for winning the 2024 People’s Choice Award at The Churchie finalists’ exhibition for her installation, My Soil Farsh فرش.

Video: Thomas Oliver. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.

Onespace would like to thank The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Metro Arts, Thomas Oliver, Installation assistants and all the other finalists at part of The Churchie Emerging Art prize 2024.

Prita Tina Yeganeh is a multidisciplinary artist of Iranian ancestry, based in Magandjin (Brisbane), Queensland. Prita draws from her lived experiences as a refugee, blending them with her practice-based research of heritage artisan crafts to share narratives of displacement, reconciliation and cultural reclamation.

Her practice engages personal storytelling, and experimental research to discuss her refugee and migrant experiences in ‘Australia’. Prita’s inquiries examine intergenerational displacement, longings for place, cultural reclamation, and Iranian Indigenous knowledge systems. Prita is interested in how settler migrants can safely reconnect with their identities through cultural re-coordination, community-building, and place-making in ‘Australia’.

More recently, her practice has become increasingly immersive, incorporating sensorial and embodied forms, including scent, light, organic materials, and spatial design while studying the mystic and feminine within historic and contemporary Iranian spiritual and religious culture.