Heather Straka
New Zealand · b. 1972 · Painter, Sculptor
Heather Straka is a New Zealand artist, based in Auckland, who primarily works with the media of painting and photography. Straka is well known as a painter that utilises a lot… (Wikipedia)
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Cargo GirlArt+Object · NZ$34,836≈ $25,267≈ £19,532≈ €22,193Sign up to see
Dear John (St John the Baptist)Art+Object · NZ$31,232≈ $21,904≈ £16,416≈ €18,723Sign up to see
Mrs WongArt+Object · NZ$25,588≈ $15,463≈ £12,089≈ €14,146Sign up to see
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Heather Straka is a New Zealand artist, based in Auckland, who primarily works with the media of painting and photography. Straka is well known as a painter that utilises a lot of detail. She often depicts cultures that are not her own, which has caused controversy at times. Her work engages with themes of economic and social upheaval in interwar China, the role of women in Arabic society and Māori in relation to colonisation in New Zealand. Eventually, the figure became important in Straka's practice and she began to use photographs as the starting point for some of her works and "Increasingly too the body feminine has become her milieu".
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