Petrina Hicks
(born 1972)
SHANAE AND JADE, 2005
Edition: edition: 5/8
LightJet print
84.0 x 79.0 cm 88.5 x 83.0 cm (frame)
Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000
Sold:
$67,500 (inc. BP)
© the artist, THIS IS NO FANTASY & Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin
lot details
Stills Gallery, Sydney
Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney
Private collection, Berlin, acquired from the above in 2008
Exhibited
Petrina Hicks, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 1 April – 1 May 2005 (another example, illus. back cover of exhibition catalogue)
Pet Project, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 7 December 2005 – 25 February 2006 (illus. cover of exhibition invitation, another example)
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis collection, Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 3 February – 18 March 2012 and touring (another example)
What’s in a face? aspects of portrait photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 September 2011 – 5 February 2012 (another example)
Flight Paths: The Bird in Australian Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2 December 2016 – 12 February 2017 (another example)
Petrina Hicks, Bleached Gothic, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 27 September 2019 – 15 March 2020 (another example)
Literature
Photofile, Sydney, Issue 79, Summer 2007 (illus. cover, another example)
Annear, J., ‘Blank Face’, Art & Australia, vol. 46, no. 2, Summer 2008, p. 280
Perram, R., ‘Reflection’, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and Museums and Galleries NSW, Bathurst, 2009 (illus. cover, another example)
Peacock, A., ‘Petrina Hicks’, Shenae and Jade (Education Collection Notes: Investigating Key Works of Art in the Gallery), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, n.p. (illus., another example)
Warnes, D., (ed.), Under My Skin: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, 2013, pp. 14, 32 (illus., another example), 62
Miller, C., ‘Seductive Subversion’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 65, July – September 2013, p. 126 (illus., another example)
Petrina Hicks, Bleached Gothic, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2019, pp. 24, 25 (illus., another example), 136 (illus. cover, another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne


