Anna Sabadini

For most Westerners, the garden offers an abiding relationship with land. For me, the garden is a metaphor of migration, a memory of the places left behind, both in personal and Western memory - my mother's family plots in Calabria, Italy; my father's family garden in what is now the Republic of Croatia; the Garden of Eden.

My experience as a daughter of Italian immigrants within a British culture trying to find its place in a country dreamt by Aboriginal peoples, is one of fracture, of constant translation. I am interested in painting as a way of seeing and as a language of experience. How can I convey through painting - how can I translate - my relationship with land?

How do I belong here? What is my cultural identity? These are the questions I try to paint, inspired by the Aboriginal understanding that land is everything.

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