As part of FLAIR Melbourne – a Flinders Lane art festival – Melbourne’s Lisa Minogue presents stylised photographic portraits of Australian women of colour, their faces painted vibrantly to accentuate their individuality and encourage the viewer to study each face more closely.

Minogue asked each woman the same question: ‘What do the words “coloured girl” mean to you?’

• The Coloured Girls shows at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne until 27 August