Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman living and working in Sydney. Perkins has an emerging painting and installation based practice and is interested in subtle disruptions of the orthodoxies surrounding these disciplines. This extends to an examination of the often rigid and prescriptive conceptual tropes applied to art and portraiture in the work created for her first solo show at Firstdraft.
Perkins studied painting and photography at UNSWAD UNSW Art + Design. Her practice has been informed by her role as studio assistant to Christian Thompson, Jonathan Jones, and Tony Albert. In 2017, while establishing her own practice, she undertook a Solid Ground internship at Carriageworks. Perkins was also commissioned to create a contemporary response to petroglyphs as part of the Barangaroo Ngangamay project by Amanda Jane Reynolds and Genevieve Grieves and provide artwork for an interactive documentary for SBS.
