Prita Tina Yeganeh is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based emerging artist of Iranian ancestry. Her practice draws on her experiences as a refugee in Australia and her journey to reconnect and heal severed relationships to her ancestral homelands. Prita uses Iranian craft traditions to access cultural knowledge and explore traditional modes of language and storytelling within her Iranian-Australian contemporary experience.

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Reengaging with personal experiences, family archives, and oral stories, Prita creates visual aids to learn and express who she is and where she comes from. Creating landscapes of places which unearth and visually activate hidden histories, memories, and stories. This process offers an accessible form of cultural expression, where Prita reimagines home, her identity, and an Iranian sense of belonging from afar. Prita's current works focus on textiles, poetry, photography and 2D materials. Drawing on her expertise as a trained engineer, Prita moves her practice towards new artistic and professional aspirations to create dynamic large-scale sculptures and installations. 

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Her practice engages with  Kāḡaḏ-e Abrī (Abrī), the tenth-century art of water mono-printing and Āyeneh-kāri (mirror glass), the sixteenth-century Islamic art of geometric mirror work.   Abrī is a hand-dyeing aqueous surface design. Prita's practice experiments with new patterns, textures and additives to push possibilities of complex multi-printing techniques, contemporising this traditionally paper-based process to include silk textiles.  Āyeneh-kāri turns an intrinsically valuable substance into an intense, decorative object by reduction of the physical material using reflective glass. Prita uses  traditional Islamic geometric patterns and symbols from ancient Sufi and mystic practices,  transforming objects into modes of language and storytelling.  Masters-of-craft developed and passed down these practices intergenerationally and through oral traditions. Today, her practice has been developed through independent research, experimentation and cultural knowledge sharing with her family.

 

Prita's work intends to offer new perspectives of her people, their relationships to homelands and impacts of generational lived experiences of displacement and forced migration. Her practice explores the process of reviving ancestral practices and ways of knowing during a time where they are still being erased and appropriated.