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Sancintya Simpson

Sancintya Simpson is an emerging artist, currently completing her Bachelor of Photography at the Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. She is interested in hybridity, both media and cultural.

Syncretism, 2011
This series draws from my own experiences growing up in Australia. During my years at school I became aware that my cultural background defined how I was viewed: difference took precedence over sameness. How I was treated was paradoxical. On one hand I was an alien, and on the other, an object of fascination. Through the use of black and white ink and paint, I physically alter photographs of my family and myself, to disrupt exoticised stereotypes. The mixed-media works question my place in society as culturally hybrid. In response to my experience of assimilation into Australian culture, I examine the relevance of western perspective in a globalised world.

Epidermal Exigency, 2010
Through topology, the series Epidermal Exigency aims to investigate issues of trauma. By photographing the backs of subjects in conjunction with their own handwritten response, relative anonymity is used to voice issues of difference, highlighting and bringing to surface the impact of bullying and prejudice in society.