About

Mona was born in 1982 on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia. After a tumultuous upbringing and rejection from every graduate art course she applied for in her home country, she moved abroad to the UK where she earned a place at Central Saint Martins School of Art in London. After completing her BFA, she moved to Germany where she completed her MFA at Bauhaus University in 2014.

Up until this point Mona’s work was primarily concerned with exploring the sublation of the public and private spheres. It stayed this way until she received a diagnosis (20years late) and realised she had been a classic subject of medical misogyny. This and becoming a mother became the two pivotal events that led to her practice taking a sharp turn into the celebration of women and ‘feminity’ that it is today. She pays homage to womanhood in all its forms and archetypes; the maiden; the mother; the wild woman. It is both a way for her to process and understand her own experiences and those of her foremothers. She often uses kitsch, decorative arts & feminine crafts in order to reframe them and elevate them from the dusty insignificance they’ve been branded with; a stark contrast to the sleekly framed and self-glorifying male-dominated fine art market.