After Dark: Portraits of Survival
Join us for an after dark tour of ‘Portraits of Survival’.
This series of intimate portraits by Anita Lester honours 16 Holocaust survivors from Melbourne, whose lives were rebuilt through family, community and culture. Through these paintings, their faces and stories embody resilience, vitality, and the ongoing responsibility to remember. This exhibition invites visitors to encounter these survivors not just as subjects of history, but living witnesses.
Anita Lester is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, film, and music. Her practice has been presented internationally in galleries, festivals, and publications. With a background in illustration and composition, she develops projects that merge visual storytelling with cultural and poetic narratives, exploring themes of myth and memory.
