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Mechelle Bounpraseuth

Australia

Mechelle Bounpraseuth is an artist living and working on unceded Gadigal land, who uses her work as a way to understand and process the loss of cultural heritage, inherited trauma, childhood memories, and as a way to navigate her own identity. The subject of her artworks are primarily domestic objects and scenarios that depict memories or events found in the past, and how these objects can become “a marker for a point in my life, and a symbol which represents what my childhood was.”

She graduated from the National Art School in 2016 and was awarded the Trudie Alfred Bequest Scholarship. She has since been the recipient of the Highly Commended Prize, Woollahra Small Sculpture; Fishers Ghost Prize for Sculpture and the Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize. Her work is in the Art Bank, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Bendigo Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, National Gallery of Australia and the National Library of Australia collections.