What’s your background?
Why does it matter?
Nah, come on, what’s your background?
I’m Australian, I was born here.
But where are your parents from?
Why does it matter?
Come on, what’s your background? You Japanese? You Korean? You eat sushi?

Blonde-Haired Blue-Eyed Nothing was Janelle’s first solo show at dianne tanzer gallery in Melbourne.

The exhibition launched in 2014 with the release of a limited edition self-published book by the same name, cataloguing the show alongside interviews with the portrait sitters.