Gabriella Sassine is a Fairfield based Australia iconographer whose work engages the ancient Christian tradition of iconography through a contemporary lens. Her artistry is not only writing (painting) but prayer, discipline and theological symbolism that brings to life the Good News, drawing from local East and diminishing West Syriac traditions, Aramaic, Arabic and Greek calligraphy, while responding to the spiritual tensions of modernity. Sassine seeks to create works that function as windows into heaven, with a purpose for encounter, contemplation and veneration.