Visual Artist, Producer and Singer-Songwriter
REE is a 20 year old artist with roots deep within Fiji, Croatia and Uganda. An artist living and working on the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta people. Born in Australia, she grew up in Uganda before moving back to Shepparton in late 2014. Ree works across various mediums including visual art, performance, song-writing, music production and programming. She is passionate about working with her community and forming creative expressions through all types of music and art.
Ree Peric
Ree is a young Fijian-Croatian woman who was exposed to a wide variety of different cultures from a young age through her mother’s missionary work in Brisbane. Ree also lived in Uganda for some time, where she learned to cook things like nsenene (grasshopper) and fufu with her grandparents.
Ree Peric
Submerged presents two unique responses to the experience of being ‘othered’ as women of colour, and the importance of defining your own value. Ree’s works look to external representations of the physical body to reconsider white beauty standards, by centering Afrocentric beauty and solidarity.
Sun 5 Dec 2021 - Sat 13 Aug 2022
MAV’s latest program NEWPRINT is all about supporting young artists of colour living in outer urban and regional areas.
Mon 31 Aug 2020 - Sat 14 May 2022
“A healthy food culture includes a large mix of different cultures and traditions…and foods that are created with love and shared with others” – Agoness Kuol
Wed 24 Feb 2021 - Sun 25 Apr 2021
Submerged is a new collaborative exhibition commissioned by MAV, featuring digital artworks by two women of colour living in the regional Victorian town of Shepparton, Mimi Leung and Ree.
Fri 1 Apr 2022
With a stunning all-female line up of local Shepparton and Melbourne based talents, the Soul Sessions is a night of soul, rnb and gospel originals and covers.
Fri 1 Apr 2022
MAV’s NEWPRINT program is a ‘for us, by us’ music revolution – a brand-new platform all about supporting artists of colour living in outer urban and regional areas.
Sat 14 May 2022
Inspired by her transglobal upbringing and ancestral roots, Ree Peric will lead a journey from the Island of Fiji to Uganda in central Africa, landing in Shepparton. Guests will be welcomed with a traditional kava ceremony followed by a meal of tasty, traditional dishes drawn from Ree’s childhood in Uganda. Bringing it home, she will screen a series of short videos that take a peek into the kitchens of some of her friends and family living here in Shepparton.