OneArt's featured artist

Mireille Astore

Lebanon

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Conceptual art, Installation, Video art

Not from Here | 2005

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Mireille Astore

Hunter | 2012

Mireille Astore: Hunter

Mireille Astore

biography

Mireille Astore

Mireille Astore

Born in 1961, Beirut, Lebanon
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Mireille Astore (Beirut, 1961) (Arabic: ميراي استور) is an artist and a writer. She left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975 to live in Melbourne, Australia. She studied the Sciences at the University of Melbourne where she graduated before becoming a full-time artist and writer. Influenced by Continental Philosophy, her art draws on autobiographical notions of representation and the unheimlich; where the conscious intersects with the unconscious. Through her art and her writing she "explores human emotions" and "asks what it is to be human".