New Zealand artist Anita DeSoto lives in Dunedin and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for the last 13 years. She has a Master of Fine Arts and has been lecturing in Drawing at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic since 2004.
In 2010 in recognition of her contribution to the New Zealand visual arts she was awarded an arts residency in the prestigious Leipzig International Art Programme for 3 months in Leipzig, Germany. In 2012 she was awarded the Aratoi fellowship at New Pacific Studios in Masterton.
Sweet Home Sick is an exhibition inspired by those residencies, having a profound impact on her painting practice in the role of story-telling with surreal allegories which have ‘push-pull’ tensions and suggestive conflicts that traverse home and event, reaching into the green-field environment where people live and act.
