Sarita Slater
Marked
Edition 1/3
16 x 20 inch
Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art
$145 AUD
Includes GST & postage within Australia
Bio
Sarita Slater is an emerging artist navigating the intertwined worlds of poetry and imagery. Her autobiographical work intimately explores culture, family, memory, and belonging. As a second-generation bi-racial Australian with roots in Northern America and Southern India, Sarita’s heritage deepens her reflections on identity, place, and resilience.
She has performed with Barefaced Stories and is a regular member of the Ink & Echo Poetry group. Sarita has recently published works in the 2025 WA Poets Pathways Anthology, and Creatix journal. Sarita was a resident artist with the M/others Who Make Boorloo program at Midland Junction Arts Centre, and has exhibited photography works widely including with Australian Street Photographers. In 2024, Sarita founded The Unabridged Memoir, a community writing project offering monthly prompts to encourage personal storytelling. A speech pathologist and solo parent, Sarita advocates for communication as a human right and the power of every voice.
Statement
This portrait was taken in the early months of postpartum — a quiet, private moment in which a mother holds her baby with a body still marked by birth. The image is intimate but unapologetic, inviting the viewer into the physical and emotional threshold of becoming a mother.
Marked explores the shifting terrain of identity, embodiment, and vulnerability. Her body is not curated— the linea nigra still visible, veins mapped across her chest, exhaustion in her hands. It is a body in transition: soft, stretched, and deeply alive. In holding her child, she is also holding the consequence of care.
This portrait resists cultural expectations of perfection or recovery and reflects documentary portrait work. It reframes the maternal body not as a site of shame or silence, but as a place of power — marked but sacred.
Marked offers a moment to pause and acknowledges how thoroughly motherhood remakes us, not just in how we live, but in how we are seen, and how we see ourselves.
