Gisela Banzer is an Argentinian artist who won the Animal Category award in the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2019 with her enigmatic work, Habitat memories 2. Her hyper-realistic paintings depict animal/human characters, clothed and situated in times and spaces gone by. Each of the works are constructed with the careful consideration of a turn-of-the-century travel photographer, the elegantly posed subjects, immortalised by a limited palette of light.