Annie Cabigting (b. 1971)

She has won widespread recognition for her beautifully rendered, photo-realist canvases. Her works often employ meta-references within art history, interrogating how art is perceived and what happens when the viewer becomes the viewed.

Cabigting's eye is drawn to the uncommon: the minute details, the overlooked or dismissed aspects to a work of art - such as the reverse of the Mona Lisa or the visual result of a destroyed Francis Bacon. She researches her artworks extensively and possesses a deep awareness of art historical practices.

Combined with her immaculate painterly technique, she has developed a keen ability to intelligently subvert or interrogate the existing works of oth...