Leaning into the ordinery, 2025

My work often explores the complexities of human behaviour, In particular articulates the essence of Femininity. The main theme looks at the relationship between fragility and strength, vulnerability and empowerment, finding familiarity in the unfamiliar, and confronting our emotions. I use narrative and storytelling to examine the cultural and personal expressions The art I create seeks to provide movements and simulations in harmony and gentleness which I find to be representatives and reflections of my own personal life.

I am Anahita Amouzegar, an Iranian-Australian artist whose work is rooted in memory, imagination, and the quiet reconciliation between survival and femininity.

After fleeing Iran as an asylum seeker and arriving in Australia by boat over a decade ago, I rebuilt my life from nothing. In that isolation, imagination became both a refuge and a heavy possession — shaping a deep inner darkness that I now seek to transform through painting.

My work explores the fragile meeting point between vulnerability and strength, often through figurative and dreamlike forms. Through color, gesture, and the intimate spaces between figures, I reclaim a feminine language that was once denied or hardened by the survival mechanisms of my past.

Influenced by artists like Picasso, Alice Neel, and Matisse,Christina Guarles, Suzanne valadon I strive to capture the raw, essential truths of human experience — the loneliness, the resilience, the hidden poetry of everyday life.

Painting is not only my refuge; it is my act of resistance, healing, and connection. In every work, I search for a space where memory and freedom coexist — where survival gives birth to beauty.