Emmaline Zanelli is an emerging artist from Adelaide, South Australia. Her practice explores the absurdity and sensuality in human interactions. Zanelli translates these interactions by encoding people in objects, and events in processes. Actions of assemblage and destruction are used to interrogate people intimately and physically with curiosity and playful irreverence, whilst ensuring the artist is entirely removed and private. She uses an experimental working process where sculpture and photography are messed with, merged and layered- the photograph becomes an object, the object becomes a sitter. Zanelli’s images play with ideas of privacy, power, connection and sexuality. Zanelli has been actively exhibiting around Adelaide since 2010. During the 2015 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival she was awarded the Centre for Creative Photography Latent Image Award, and was also invited to give a presentation about her work as part of the Artist's Voice forum weekend at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She was selected for the 2016 Helpmann Academy South Australian Graduate Exhibition where she was selected as the inaugural winner of the Helpmann Academy Watson Award. In May this year, Zanelli will travel to Perth, WA, and exhibit her work at the 2016 HATCHED National Graduate Exhibition as one of the top 34 Visual Arts graduates in Australia. undefined

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