Anastasia Booth works across sculpture, moving image, photography and installation. Booth interrogates spaces of female desire in cultural production and symbolic discourse by employing strategies of mimicry, humour and appropriation. Her practice draws influence from contemporary subcultures, art history and the convergence of Freudian psychoanalysis and desire in classical mythology. By subversively reconstructing these visual codes through her practice, Booth speaks to the problematic and often paradoxical relationship between historical imaging of the feminine as passive and contemporary notions of agency.
Booth's artwork has been exhibited nationally, including projects at the University of Queensland Art Museum (Brisbane), Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Screen Space (Melbourne), Boxcopy Contemporary Artspace (2015) and was artist in residence at Metro Arts (2017). She has been a recipient of the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize (2016) and an Australian Postgraduate Award (2014). In 2017 Anastasia received her Doctorate of Philosophy from Queensland University of Technology for her thesis Playing with Me: Feminine Perspectives in Fetishism and Contemporary Art.
Booth's artwork has been exhibited nationally, including projects at the University of Queensland Art Museum (Brisbane), Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Screen Space (Melbourne), Boxcopy Contemporary Artspace (2015) and was artist in residence at Metro Arts (2017). She has been a recipient of the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize (2016) and an Australian Postgraduate Award (2014). In 2017 Anastasia received her Doctorate of Philosophy from Queensland University of Technology for her thesis Playing with Me: Feminine Perspectives in Fetishism and Contemporary Art.
