GERRIE MIFSUD ART
My photography work is a fusion of fine art and cultural storytelling, celebrating the richness of multiculturalism through both theme and representation. My work consistently features either themes or models from diverse multicultural backgrounds, ensuring that cultural heritage remains a central element in my artistic vision.
FRIDA REIMAGINED: THREADS OF HER, VOICES OF US
This portrait series is a contemporary tribute to the enduring legacy of Frida Kahlo - an artist whose life and work embodied pain, power, and protest. Known for her self-fashioning and deeply symbolic imagery, Kahlo used colour not just as decoration, but as defiance. Her vivid palettes were acts of resistance—against patriarchy, colonialism, and erasure.
Each portrait reinterprets Frida’s iconic visual language through the lens of multicultural women today. Colour is used deliberately, not just to celebrate, but to defy. Styled in thrifted and repurposed garments, each subject wears contemporary renditions of Kahlo’s bold signatures: floral crowns, striking prints, and layered adornments.
Every portrait includes a symbolic object or motif that reflects the subject’s cultural heritage—subtle or overt reminders of ancestral stories and personal identity.
Through this work, I aim to create a space where women of diverse heritage can be seen in their fullness - powerful, and present, and like Frida, they reject invisibility. Their portraits speak of endurance and heritage using fashion and colour not only to express, but to resist.
