Effie Pryer is a Tasmanian artist living in Nipaluna/Hobart, working primarily as a portrait and figurative painter in oils. Her professional experience as a paintings conservator informs her traditional technique, as well as using the unique qualities of Tasmanian timber panels both as support and an integral part of the finished artwork. The paintings often dislocate well-known classical narratives by reproducing them in awkward, contemporary contexts, questioning whether we can sometimes take ourselves and art a little too seriously. Effie has been a finalist in national portrait and figurative painting prizes and undertaken recent portrait commissions for the University of Tasmania and Parliament of Tasmania.