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Shanti Shea An is an artist based on Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). Her practice explores how images are read, translated, and transformed through the process of painting. She works with source material drawn from mass media, art history, and personal photography, bringing together disparate visual languages to reflect on ambiguity, interruption, and the instability of meaning.

In early 2025, Shanti completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the ANU School of Art & Design. Her research examined how concepts of doubling and legibility shape our understanding of figurative painting. Through a series of studio investigations, she explored the book as a site of symmetry, the fold as a generative disruption, and the frame as a threshold between image and meaning.

Recent solo exhibitions include Split screen, double vision (Velvet Lobster, Sydney, 2025), Folded Memories (Galerie Elsa Meunier — Galerie Mathilde le Coz, Paris, 2024), and The Painted Double (ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra, 2024). She has also exhibited in group shows across Australia, China, and France.



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