Arif Satar and Audrey Fernandes-Satar

Arif Satar and Audrey Fernandes-Satar are visual artists living and working in Walyalup (Fremantle), in Whadjuk Noongar Country. Working individually and in collaboration, their cross-disciplinary practices intersect through a shared interest in uncovering complex memories and histories, both personal and collective.
Across sculpture, drawing, text, printmaking, sound and the moving image, Satar and Fernandes-Satar draw from ancestral stories, rituals and crafting techniques, to create a rich dialogue between the past and the present.

Migrants many times over, the pair forge a line of inquiry grounded in understandings of the intricate practices that tether and connect. Traversing themes of displacement, home, identity, history and politics – their works are characterised by a sensitive interrogation of material, and an exploration of methods of expression.

Together, Satar and Fernandes-Satar have exhibited their works, undertaken socially-engaged community art projects and created work for public spaces, both in Australia and overseas.

FEATURED WORK

2022

Kala Pani Trojan Horse calls attention to the thousands of
Eucalyptus trees that were removed from the Australian
landscape and transported across the Kala Pani (Indian Ocean)
in the 19th century to India in a bid to ‘domesticate’ the Indian
and the Australian landscapes. In this sculptural installation the
emblematic figure of the Black Horse symbolises this crossing of
borders, connecting the removal of forests across continents
resulting in the devastation of ancient ecological systems.