The Digital Gallery: To the Sun to the Moon and Back

The Learning Space is proud to exhibit a new work by local artist Zorica Purlija.

From the Sun to the Moon and Back archives the discordant time of 2020, responding to the unprecedented social, environmental, and economic impacts of the COVID- 19 global pandemic. Photographing family, friends and strangers, artist Zorica Purlija explores the importance of relationships and care, with the resulting photographs capturing fractured moments of frivolity, homeschooling anxieties and fear as the pandemic continued to spread.

Showing from 6 June until 26 June 2022.

Zorica Purlija migrated from Montenegro to Australia in 1972 at the age of eight. She is currently based in Sydney. Her current practice has been focused on attachments, the psychology and space around our primary relationships and how it impacts our future self. Her art is informed by feminist values and hopes to tap into our universal longings for equality. Graduating in 1989 with an Associate Diploma in graphic design and photography at The University of Western Sydney, Zorica spent some years travelling through Europe, experiencing life and art. For the last twenty years she has been practicing as a fine art photographer while raising her family, and in July 2020 she completed her Masters of Art in photo media at the UNSW School of Art and Design.