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.
