Artists

Azza Zein is an interdisciplinary artist and writer living in Narrm/Melbourne.

Her installations and writing explore the dematerialisation of the economy, the invisibility of labour and the economic conditions surrounding mobility and trade. She holds an MFA from the Victorian College of Arts, the University of Melbourne (2020) and a PhD in economics from Texas A&M University (2005).

She has exhibited in Australia and internationally, with residencies in Argentina, India, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, and the Santa Fe Art Institute (NM, USA), and has been published in Art + Australia, Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research, Memo Review and un Extended.

In 2025, she was un Projects guest-editor for issue19.2. We swear we saw this. Drawings about notebooks and notebooks about the Wor(l)ds.
 

In Residence at Bundanon

I will extend my ongoing research into the contradictory associations of certain materials, particularly those that sit between the edible, the industrial, and their use in skincare: Clay, gum arabic, hibiscus, and other herbal leaves. Materials will be explored both in their raw form and in relation to the environment: considering their use as pigment, as drink, as offering. A series of painting will be developed in relation to their materiality and geography; performance related to the edibility of these materials as well as a collaborative drawing session to add to my ongoing project Tashabok.