Prat Talegaonkar is a self-taught Australian artist from Narrm (Melbourne) who currently lives in Amsterdam. She uses Digital Collage as a medium and is currently exploring figurative painting using oil paint and charcoal as media. Born in Mumbai and raised as a migrant in Melbourne, her art explores topics of bicultural identities within the psyche of women of color. Through her digital collage work, she uses fragments of ‘found’ public domain images to intentionally reveal the emotions and experience of her dual cultural identities. She takes inspiration from Surrealism as an art movement and uses collaging as a way to release and reveal the struggle against constraint and conventionalism of life experienced from the point of view of a woman of color in a euro-centric western society. She embraces accidental juxtapositions of random unrelated images and layering as a technique to recreate scenes. 

She holds a Bachelor of Design in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from RMIT (Melbourne) and has over 8 years of experience designing public spaces and urban furniture.