THE Zig Zag Gallery in Kalamunda is exploring how physical and emotional journeys reshape artistic identity through its Re/place exhibition.

Artists Nadia Rasheed and Diane Keating are featuring their artworks exploring ideas of transformative journeys through multiple media such as printmaking and ceramics.

Ms Rasheed’s work has in the past explored humanity and her place in Australia as a first-generation Australian with a Palestinian-German background.

She probes the meaning behind the pain through her printmaking and painting and has held past exhibitions that inspected the heartbreak and intergenerational trauma inflicted by war.

Symbolism guides her work which features a multimedia approach merging printmaking concepts and design with brush techniques and paint.

Ravens often feature as a motif across her works as she builds a world illustrating her inner cosmology and the ideas of travel and what it means to be displaced.

Ms Keating has also featured birds as a prominent subject in her works with pieces such as ‘Flyaway’ which is displayed in the City of Melville.

Ms Keating is a textile artist and designer, born and raised in Cork, and a graduate of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design.

She aims for her work to elicit emotions across the spectrum, looking to delight, confuse, excite, attract and overwhelm in equal measure.

Her previous exhibition titled Host featured 50 facemasks, made from digitally printed fabric and a thermochromatic pigmented material panel.

The heat from breathing with the facemask on would then change what the artwork looks like, highlighting the connection between bodies and textiles.

Both artists have an interest in exploring change within the context of human experience and have produced art that commented on humanitarian crises.

The exhibition held its opening night on May 8 and their works will be available at the Zig Zag Gallery until May 31.

The Zig Zag Gallery is located in the Zig Zag Cultural Centre at 50 Railway Road, Kalamunda.

The gallery opens at 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday and from 10am to 4pm on weekends.

For more information, call 9257 9998 or email zzgallery@kalamunda.wa.gov.au