Susanna Strati references funereal ritual, Catholic religious performance and  devotional objects as a framework for creating new work. The material  dimension of her practice extends declining traditional Southern Italian  mourning customs through objects, expressing the spirit of lamentation,  ritual, and commemorative-performative space away from their original  contexts. Her objects combined with gesture, function to mediate  sentiment, register emotion, and explore identity.

Strati  lives and works in Sydney, her contemporary art practice integrates sculpture, installation, video, photography and performance. She is an Alumna of UNSW Art &  Design and recipient of awards and residencies, including an Australia  Council Residency at the British School at Rome, an Australia Council  research grant for independent study in central and southern Italy, and  an Australian Post Graduate Award for research. Strati’s work has been  exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as selected as  Finalist in the inaugural Paramor Prize: ART + INNOVATION (where she was  Winner of the Mayoral Award),  Hidden Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture  Walk  (2012, 2014, 2015), The Blake Prize (2008, 2013), The David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award (Contemporary Art Sculpture 2017), Fishers  Ghost Art Award (2008. 2017), Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2012,  2013, 2016), The Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award  (2018) and The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2018). Her work  has been exhibited at galleries such as The British School at Rome  Gallery, Object Australian Design Centre, The Macleay Museum, Annandale  Galleries, May Space (Brenda May Gallery), Stanley Street Gallery and  Mop Projects in Sydney. Her Jewellery focuses the locket.