About: Norah Anne Wells is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and creates reclusively on the sacred lands of the Wiradjuri people. Moving through disciplines such as still and moving image, writing, styling, performance art, set design, sound, movement, painting and illustration. She has worked across various areas in the arts for domestic and international companies amassing 8 years of experience, and has been featured in publications such as Astrophe Magazine (AUS), Nakid Mag (USA), C-Heads Magazine (EU) and Sticks n Stones (AUS).

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Natural World

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Collaborating across the creative space with musicians, models, dancers, artists, fashion brands and charities, Norah has developed a distinctive style of photography. Working mostly with 35mm and 120mm film, she aims to explore not only her inner world but the world of her subjects. Strongly motivated from a young age to push barriers of what it means to be a woman in photography, she turns against the norm to explore dreamy, sometimes avant-garde, and soft portraits that materialise the female gaze by including the subject as a part of her creative process. There is nothing more uplifting than for her to build worlds around the interesting and unique faces she captures.

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Norah is heavily inspired by her Celtic ancestry, Mother Earth, celebrating different cultures, Burlesque and the Impressionist and Surrealist painters. She dedicates time to explore decolonizing her practice in order to create images that evoke an otherworldly sense of imagination that moves away from the Western gaze and de-centres the boxes that have been built to restrict women behind the camera.

As world building and her deep spirituality remains the centre of her practice, Norah is moving to have a more nature-centred photo-style with hopes that it embodies a call to protect the natural world and it’s indigenous caretakers by capturing and amplifying it’s beauty and ancient wisdom.