Linda Studena is a Czech born artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. She works with drawing, print, textiles, photography and sculpture. Her practice is informed by personal experience and is centred around experimental and iterative processes, the non-linear nature of memory, and ideas around value and hierarchy, migration, identity, and nostalgia. Linda was recently awarded the People’s Choice Award – Incinerator Art for Social Change 2023, the Melbourne University Graduate Student Association Innovation Award and Masters Mentoring VCA Art Award and completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2022. In 2002 Linda completed a winter semester at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague (Czechia), funded by the Freedman Foundation Scholarship, National Association of Visual Arts.