Tiny worlds, tall tales explores the hidden interior—the space where the inner child continues to dream, build, and remember. In this body of work, play becomes a language for emotion, and the house operates as a vessel for memory and imagination, suspended between belonging and displacement.
Spanish-born, Brisbane-based artist Anna Gonzalez draws on lived experience, dark humour, and theatricality to examine memory, resilience, and transformation. Her practice is informed by formative experiences growing up in Spain during the final years of Franco’s authoritarian regime, shaping a rebellious, imaginative approach grounded in absurdity and resistance.
Gonzalez’s current practice centres on ephemeral dioramas: miniature theatrical scenes made through drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and puppet-making. These sets are carefully lit and photographed, then dismantled, with the photograph remaining as the final artwork—underscoring the fragility of memory and the transient nature of human experience.
