The Lost Child, challenges the audience to examine how they view children in art, and asks if this part of artistic representation should slip into obscurity and be completely removed from our gaze. How would Dodgson’s Alice Liddell as a beggar-girl be without Alice Liddell?
How would Balthus’ Therese be without Therese?

Connie Petrillo is a Perth based artist whose work  reflects and challenges local and national events on social issues that affect her as both an artist and a woman. She is well known for her controversial artistic style and also for examining the ways in which we represent our children. Her previous photomedia work has challenged the way in which we unnecessarily sexualise our children and take away their innocence.