Mavanie is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne. Their practice is informed by their Assyrian-Iranian heritage and their lived experience as queer, brown, and non-binary in Australia.

Working primarily across sculpture and spatial installation, Mavanie’s work explores cultural erasure, gender, identity, and belonging at the intersection of contemporary Western culture and Mesopotamian folklore.

They work with mixed media and found objects, using fire and water as elemental forces of destruction, renewal, and transformation. Their installations draw from their contemporary reality and influences, reflecting on how ancestral knowledge and cultural memory endure despite histories of erasure.

‘I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.’