About The Artist

Perri Huggett is an emerging contemporary Australian artist whose work moves between abstraction and surrealism, using the crocodile as a recurring symbol for womanhood, vulnerability, and survival. In her paintings, crocodiles become women, daughters, lovers, and protectors. Soft yet formidable figures navigating intimacy, memory, and self-preservation. Rooted in lived experience, her practice explores themes of girlhood, sexuality, family, mental health, and the longing for home.

Huggett’s visual language is emotive and intuitive, allowing paint to behave like memory: layered, blurred, and unstable. Her dreamlike scenes reflect the ways identity is shaped by both personal history and emotional inheritance. By placing crocodiles within tender and domestic moments, she transforms a creature associated with danger into one capable of softness, attachment, and care. Through textured surfaces and symbolic imagery, Huggett invites viewers to reflect on vulnerability, resilience, and the versions of themselves they continue to carry home.