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 as living witnesses.
Anita Lester is
a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, Australia, working across music, film, painting, poetry, and illustration. Her practice is grounded in storytelling first and foremost, resisting easy categorisation – marked by both a technical precision and a deep emotional intelligence that connects across forms.
Whether through image, word, sound, or line, Anita’s work continues to ask essential questions – about memory, faith, and how we carry culture through rupture and reinvention.
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