Listen to a conversation between Filipina-Australian artist Mel Stringer and 4A Assistant Curator Reina Takeuchi, conducted between Stringer’s home studio at Seattle, USA and 4A’s Haymarket gallery in Sydney, Australia.
In this 4A Talks episode, Stringer discusses the diaristic themes that drive her playful autobiographical practice, including notions of body positivity, cultural diaspora, and female-driven empowerment.
Mel Stringer is a Filipino-Australian Illustrator and Comic Artist currently based in Whidbey Island, a small island near Seattle, Washington. Her artwork ranges from cute, digitally-created curvy girls full of attitude to her more rough comic work that is distributed in the form of photocopied zines.
The interview took place on 10 October 2020 to coincide with Stringer’s comic work, Sleepless in Seattle, commissioned for 4A Digital.
The 4A Digital Program in 2020 is supported by the City of Sydney. Images courtesy the artist.
