Reanne Chidiac

Visual Art – Sydney

Reanne Chidiac is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and jeweller. She was born, raised and resides in Western Sydney. Her family immigrated from Lebanon in the 1960s. She takes cues from personal narratives contextualised by contemporary Sydney and her Lebanese-Maronite heritage. Her practice crosses the disciplines of jewellery, painting, sculpture and metalsmithing and is driven by material experimentation. She often uses triggers that arise from her genetic skin disease as an entryway into her visual explorations of the idea of body norms and standards. Chidiac’s often personal and self-investigative practice explores concepts surrounding the ‘contemporary’ body, bloodlines, identity and the role of cultural tradition in the development of these concepts.