Art as Advocacy
Paintings that confront what we are taught not to see — and invite a different kind of attention.
Daisy Ann Gonzalez
Born in Manila to an artist family, Daisy Ann grew up surrounded by creativity — her father a portrait artist at the Manila Hotel Art Gallery, her mother a ballet dancer and pianist, and one of seven siblings all working in the arts.
An Australian-Filipino artist, her practice sits at the intersection of memory, migration, and human rights. Working primarily in oil, she draws from personal history and community narratives to create paintings that resist easy consumption.
Her work has been exhibited across Sydney, Manila, London, and online — including the rare distinction of being the only Filipino artist to exhibit at Cork Street, London. For Daisy Ann, painting is not separate from activism. It is the form her activism takes.
An imprint of creation
Daisy Ann approaches her canvas as a free spirit — unbound by trend, grounded in craft. A portraitist by training and instinct, she reads the human face as a record of dignity, memory, and resilience long before she reads it as a subject.
Her practice is held together by faith. Every painting begins as an act of attention and ends as an offering — a small contribution to the long human project of seeing one another more truthfully.
The Scourge of Human Slavery
A series in progress. Each painting confronts the hidden architecture of modern exploitation — forced labour, human trafficking, and the systems that render people invisible. The completed works will trace the many faces of this global crisis. Artwork images and full descriptions will appear here as the series unfolds.
Limited edition prints
"Every print is an act of witness — a small refusal of forgetting."
