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Over her 20-year career, the Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou explored the representation of children and questions of identity. Her daughter Olympia Nelson, now 23, was the main subject of her work and Papapetrou photographed her in fantastical and theatrical settings. Now, a major new retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria draws together Papapetrou’s depictions of her daughter over the years, until the artist’s death from cancer in 2018. Here, Nelson describes the experience of being her mother’s muse and what it was like creating those intriguing and magical works
• Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou is showing at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, until 15 March 2020
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