Awards Winning Photographer & Mixed Media Artist Daisy Seilern is an award-winning Austrian artist whose work bridges fine art photography and contemporary mixed media. With a foundation in classical portraiture, her evolving practice embraces dynamic movement, improvisation, and the transformation of everyday materials. While her previous series explored themes of motion and spatial limitation, her latest body of work, Garbage Queen, marks a bold shift in both message and medium — centering sustainability, resilience, and redefined beauty. Garbage Queen is a striking mixed-media series that blends photography with physical waste — discarded plastics, newspapers, and other salvaged debris — assembled into sculptural garments and affixed to the surface of each print. The images are printed on Alu-Dibond and housed in deep plexiglass box frames, giving them a tactile, three-dimensional presence. Each woman depicted in the series stands poised and powerful amid mounds of refuse, wearing garments crafted entirely from what society has deemed worthless. In doing so, Seilern confronts conventional notions of beauty and luxury, offering an alternative vision rooted in dignity, perspective, and resourcefulness. By transforming garbage into couture, Seilern crafts a compelling metaphor for environmental responsibility. The women she photographs — graceful and proud — suggest that strength and elegance can emerge from the discarded. Her work invites viewers to reconsider the value of materials and to embrace a new narrative of circularity. These women are not just muses — they are allegories for change, draped in transformation itself. Across her career, Seilern has explored the interplay between stillness and motion, structure and spontaneity, beauty and imperfection. With Garbage Queen, she expands this duality into a socio-environmental context, reminding us that what we discard may hold untapped potential — for others, for art, and for the future.