Teena McCarthyTeena McCarthy is a Barkindji Italian woman who is a descendant of the Stolen Generations. She is a visual artist and poet who works in painting, photography and performance art. Her work documents her family's displacement and Aboriginal Australians loss of culture and thier hidden history. In 2019, she was a featured artist at the Head On Photo Festival. In 2018, she was the inaugural winner of the King & Wood Mallesons Contemporary First Nations Art Award for her work Kopi in the Mourning and a finalist in the 65th Blake Prize. She was a finalist in the 70th Mosman Art Prize and a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize 2014 and 2015. McCarthy graduated with distinction from UNSW Art & Design in 2013 as a painter. She started exhibiting in galleries and - always with an interest in poetry - began her cross-practice forms shortly thereafter. Read More Read Less