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EXHIBITIONS
DOCKLANDS
XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands
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Viewing Melbourne
Jessie Pretorius, Gerry Angelos, Derek Nguyen, Andrew Tan, Santana Velo Harry Baker, Harry Hsu, Luke Tipping, Scott Ransley, Archie and more.
14 July to 18 August 2024
1 - 5pm, Thursday to Sunday
Photographers of various backgrounds find the views of this ‘once was rich’ city and explore that which resinates with each them. This presents as many visions of the city as there are participants.
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This is hard to find, Details on the website.
Viewing Melbourne
Jessie Pretorius, Gerry Angelos, Derek Nguyen, Andrew Tan, Santana Velo Harry Baker, Harry Hsu, Luke Tipping, Scott Ransley, Archie and more.
14 July to 18 August 2024
1 - 5pm, Thursday to Sunday
Photographers of various backgrounds find the views of this ‘once was rich’ city and explore that which resinates with each them. This presents as many visions of the city as there are participants.
Magnet Gallery - Docklands
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Magnet Winter Print Sale
Various
to 12 July 2024
Come in on WEEKDAYS(Tuesdays to Fridays) from Tuesday 11 June to Friday 12 July and browse the walls .....you just never know what you might find! The prints will be sold in "as-is" condition Pay and collect on the day you visit.
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Magnet Winter Print Sale
Various
to 12 July 2024
Come in on WEEKDAYS(Tuesdays to Fridays) from Tuesday 11 June to Friday 12 July and browse the walls .....you just never know what you might find! The prints will be sold in "as-is" condition Pay and collect on the day you visit.
Library at the Dock - Docklands
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An Inconvenient Curve
Christine McFetridge
7 August to 1 September 2024
This was to expand the port and to allow access to larger ships and reduce travel time along the river, proposing the Coode Canal, Victoria Dock and Victoria Harbour, where the Library at the Dock is situated. To justify the new canal, Coode noted that the Birrarung’s course near its natural confluence with the Maribyrnong River was an ‘inconvenient curve.’
An Inconvenient Curve: Unlearning Settler Colonial Representations of the Birrarung is the exhibition outcome of Christine McFetridge’s practice-led PhD research. By combining media including archival material, photography, video and text, this project aims to attend to the violence of the ongoing colonial regime. In making the ways the Birrarung has been and continues to be used as a resource for colonial and economic expansion explicit, McFetridge, a settler coloniser from Aotearoa New Zealand, speculates on the role photography and video can have in reshaping settler perceptions of the river.
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An Inconvenient Curve
Christine McFetridge
7 August to 1 September 2024
This was to expand the port and to allow access to larger ships and reduce travel time along the river, proposing the Coode Canal, Victoria Dock and Victoria Harbour, where the Library at the Dock is situated. To justify the new canal, Coode noted that the Birrarung’s course near its natural confluence with the Maribyrnong River was an ‘inconvenient curve.’
An Inconvenient Curve: Unlearning Settler Colonial Representations of the Birrarung is the exhibition outcome of Christine McFetridge’s practice-led PhD research. By combining media including archival material, photography, video and text, this project aims to attend to the violence of the ongoing colonial regime. In making the ways the Birrarung has been and continues to be used as a resource for colonial and economic expansion explicit, McFetridge, a settler coloniser from Aotearoa New Zealand, speculates on the role photography and video can have in reshaping settler perceptions of the river.
INNER CITY
Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick
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Big Bug
Jake Nemirovsky
27 June to 18 August 2024
Jake Nemirovsky’s solo exhibition debut Big Bug opens at Hillvale Gallery on Saturday 27 July. To coincide with the opening, Jake’s first solo publication of the same title, published by Tall Poppy Press, will be launched.
Try to remember a moment from when you were young. What did it feel like then? How does it feel now? Can you describe it?
Can you pinpoint a place or are we back where we started?
The echoes of my memory fade and swell over time; they tell a story that I want to recall. I can remember the taste, but I can’t quite taste it.
These are closer to memories of a memory,
like the pages of so many photo albums that were never made. Like the reflections of a world that I thought were real. I can remember the sound, but I can’t quite hear it.
The camera pricks the surface of the visual world to stir all that is dormant within us.
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Big Bug
Jake Nemirovsky
27 June to 18 August 2024
Jake Nemirovsky’s solo exhibition debut Big Bug opens at Hillvale Gallery on Saturday 27 July. To coincide with the opening, Jake’s first solo publication of the same title, published by Tall Poppy Press, will be launched.
Try to remember a moment from when you were young. What did it feel like then? How does it feel now? Can you describe it?
Can you pinpoint a place or are we back where we started?
The echoes of my memory fade and swell over time; they tell a story that I want to recall. I can remember the taste, but I can’t quite taste it.
These are closer to memories of a memory,
like the pages of so many photo albums that were never made. Like the reflections of a world that I thought were real. I can remember the sound, but I can’t quite hear it.
The camera pricks the surface of the visual world to stir all that is dormant within us.
Sol Gallery - Fitzroy
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Space 2
Jakub Fabijanski
20 August - 1 September , 2024
With an innate passion for capturing the essence of individuals through photography, Jakub's journey into the world of portraiture began as a personal exploration of human expression and connection. Through careful composition and an intuitive understanding of light, he creates portraits that resonate with depth and emotional authenticity. Often approaching his subjects on the streets, he establishes a quick rapport that enables him to capture genuine expressions, reflecting the true essence of individuals. His choice of using black and white film through medium and large format cameras allows for unparalleled detail and clarity but also imbue his subjects with a distinctive visual richness and depth, enhancing the immersive quality of his portraits.
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Space 2
Jakub Fabijanski
20 August - 1 September , 2024
With an innate passion for capturing the essence of individuals through photography, Jakub's journey into the world of portraiture began as a personal exploration of human expression and connection. Through careful composition and an intuitive understanding of light, he creates portraits that resonate with depth and emotional authenticity. Often approaching his subjects on the streets, he establishes a quick rapport that enables him to capture genuine expressions, reflecting the true essence of individuals. His choice of using black and white film through medium and large format cameras allows for unparalleled detail and clarity but also imbue his subjects with a distinctive visual richness and depth, enhancing the immersive quality of his portraits.
CITY
State Library of Victoria - Melbourne
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Melbourne Out Loud: Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis
Rennie Ellis
to 28 January 2025
If there was ever a photographer to take Melbourne’s portrait, it was Rennie Ellis.
Rennie had an uncanny ability to slip into all kinds of social circles and his photographs are the ultimate story of life on the town.
He roamed our places: St Kilda Beach, the MCG, Swanston Street, Sidney Myer Music Bowl. He met superstars: Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones. He stood with crowds on the biggest days of the year: Melbourne Cup, the AFL Grand Final, the Boxing Day Test. He befriended people from all walks of life: athletes and celebrities, punks and protesters, beach goers and party lovers. And he captured it all on camera.
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Melbourne Out Loud: Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis
Rennie Ellis
to 28 January 2025
If there was ever a photographer to take Melbourne’s portrait, it was Rennie Ellis.
Rennie had an uncanny ability to slip into all kinds of social circles and his photographs are the ultimate story of life on the town.
He roamed our places: St Kilda Beach, the MCG, Swanston Street, Sidney Myer Music Bowl. He met superstars: Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones. He stood with crowds on the biggest days of the year: Melbourne Cup, the AFL Grand Final, the Boxing Day Test. He befriended people from all walks of life: athletes and celebrities, punks and protesters, beach goers and party lovers. And he captured it all on camera.
Shrine of Remembrance - Melbourne
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Trenches to Runway
to October 2024
At first glance, the world of fashion and the gravity of military service may appear distant, even disparate. Yet, they share a tapestry of connections that reveal themselves in profound ways.
Our latest exhibition explores the rich connections between the uniforms that once graced the battlefield and the iconic fashion staples we embrace today.
Trenches to Runway delves into the profound impact of military clothing design and wartime conditions on popular fashion, tracing these influences from the 1870s to the present day. Discover how wartime led to innovative design solutions and how the fashion industry reinterpreted these styles, giving them new meaning and expression in civilian life..
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Trenches to Runway
to October 2024
At first glance, the world of fashion and the gravity of military service may appear distant, even disparate. Yet, they share a tapestry of connections that reveal themselves in profound ways.
Our latest exhibition explores the rich connections between the uniforms that once graced the battlefield and the iconic fashion staples we embrace today.
Trenches to Runway delves into the profound impact of military clothing design and wartime conditions on popular fashion, tracing these influences from the 1870s to the present day. Discover how wartime led to innovative design solutions and how the fashion industry reinterpreted these styles, giving them new meaning and expression in civilian life..
Vic Archives Centre - North Melbourne
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Collective City
Cathrin Plunkett, Francesca Donnoli, Gonzzalo Palta, Shiang Liew, Sally Coggle, Mark Davidson, Mike Reed, Nathan Coote, Andrew Wilson, Adam Sinclair, Jane Hinwood and Ilana Rose
This exhibition showcases historic photographs of Melbourne from the state and federal government archives, alongside images representing our city today, curated from submissions by contemporary street photographers. The exhibition explores the moments of joy and connection that happen in our public spaces, between friends, family and strangers. It also highlights the ways people can feel disconnected or lonely in a crowd, and the divisions created by inequity of access to services and public spaces.
NOTE: located at PMI 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran
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Collective City
Cathrin Plunkett, Francesca Donnoli, Gonzzalo Palta, Shiang Liew, Sally Coggle, Mark Davidson, Mike Reed, Nathan Coote, Andrew Wilson, Adam Sinclair, Jane Hinwood and Ilana Rose
This exhibition showcases historic photographs of Melbourne from the state and federal government archives, alongside images representing our city today, curated from submissions by contemporary street photographers. The exhibition explores the moments of joy and connection that happen in our public spaces, between friends, family and strangers. It also highlights the ways people can feel disconnected or lonely in a crowd, and the divisions created by inequity of access to services and public spaces.
NOTE: located at PMI 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran
SOUTH OF MELBOURNE
Melbourne Camera Club - South Melbourne
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A One Light Stand – Romancing the Darkness
MCC members
28 July 2024 11-3pm
An exhibition of images created with a single source of light
Hand Made
MCC members
31 August and 1 September 2024, 11am-3pm
7-8 September 2024, 11am-3pm
An exhibition of analogue images by the members of this vibrant and very diverse group of practitioners, covering film, silver gel and many alt processes.
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A One Light Stand – Romancing the Darkness
MCC members
28 July 2024 11-3pm
An exhibition of images created with a single source of light
Hand Made
MCC members
31 August and 1 September 2024, 11am-3pm
7-8 September 2024, 11am-3pm
An exhibition of analogue images by the members of this vibrant and very diverse group of practitioners, covering film, silver gel and many alt processes.
Museum of Australian Photography - Monash
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uilt photography
Trent Crawford, Jessica Curry, Lucas Davidson, Damian Dillon, Jacqueline Felstead, Janina Green, Luke Parker, Kiah Pullens, Jacky Redgate, Talia Smith, Katrina Stamatopoulos, Andrew Tetzlaff, Marian Tubbs, Skye Wagner & Grace Wood
8 June – 25 August 2024
Built photography proposes a conversation between photography’s material, its surface and form and especially its objectness, against which the flatness of the photographic plane is interrogated. Through processes of ‘inflation’, photographs disrupt the two-dimensional surface to complicate the spatial relationship between the content of an image and its physical form.
A built photograph becomes a three-dimensional proposition that can be twisted, torn, pulled apart, pierced, stripped and exposed. It’s a process of investigation: how can the traditional reading of a photograph – through its two-dimensional representative function – be extended, and what happens in the acknowledgement of the objectness of the materials involved in the creation and display of the photograph?
Develop
Graduates from Melbourne BA courses
25 July to 25 August 2024
Develop brings together a select showcase of 2023 Bachelor-degree graduates from Melbourne’s tertiary institutions, presenting work by emerging photographic artists. The annual exhibition provides a vital platform for each of the artists to exhibit their work as they develop their practice and move towards the next stage of their career. With artists chosen from a range of universities and showcasing a variety of styles and techniques, this is a celebration of the next generation of Australian photographers.
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uilt photography
Trent Crawford, Jessica Curry, Lucas Davidson, Damian Dillon, Jacqueline Felstead, Janina Green, Luke Parker, Kiah Pullens, Jacky Redgate, Talia Smith, Katrina Stamatopoulos, Andrew Tetzlaff, Marian Tubbs, Skye Wagner & Grace Wood
8 June – 25 August 2024
Built photography proposes a conversation between photography’s material, its surface and form and especially its objectness, against which the flatness of the photographic plane is interrogated. Through processes of ‘inflation’, photographs disrupt the two-dimensional surface to complicate the spatial relationship between the content of an image and its physical form.
A built photograph becomes a three-dimensional proposition that can be twisted, torn, pulled apart, pierced, stripped and exposed. It’s a process of investigation: how can the traditional reading of a photograph – through its two-dimensional representative function – be extended, and what happens in the acknowledgement of the objectness of the materials involved in the creation and display of the photograph?
Develop
Graduates from Melbourne BA courses
25 July to 25 August 2024
Develop brings together a select showcase of 2023 Bachelor-degree graduates from Melbourne’s tertiary institutions, presenting work by emerging photographic artists. The annual exhibition provides a vital platform for each of the artists to exhibit their work as they develop their practice and move towards the next stage of their career. With artists chosen from a range of universities and showcasing a variety of styles and techniques, this is a celebration of the next generation of Australian photographers.
Gasworks - Albert Park
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Growing up in Port Melbourne 1920 - 1940
Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society
August 6–25, 2024
This exhibition uses images and documents from the collection of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society to build up a picture of what life was like for children and teenagers in the period between the two world wars. Seven themes are used to give a balanced picture: Housing, Family, Schooling, Community, Leisure, Sport, and Work.
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Growing up in Port Melbourne 1920 - 1940
Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society
August 6–25, 2024
This exhibition uses images and documents from the collection of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society to build up a picture of what life was like for children and teenagers in the period between the two world wars. Seven themes are used to give a balanced picture: Housing, Family, Schooling, Community, Leisure, Sport, and Work.
Compendium Gallery - Armadale
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HOMAGE
Andrew Farmer
to 3 August 2024
Though not strictly photography, it is never the less dealing with photographic ideas and is really interesting on that count.
Step into the enchanting world of ‘HOMAGE’ an enthralling solo exhibition unveiling Andrew Farmer’s evolution of abstract reverie, inspired by the groundbreaking work of the late geometric abstract artist Josef Albers and his iconic ‘HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE’ series. With profound admiration for Albers; legacy, Andrew propels the square form into new frontiers, using tinted resin on mirrored aluminium to orchestrate an ethereal symphony of light, colour and introspection.
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HOMAGE
Andrew Farmer
to 3 August 2024
Though not strictly photography, it is never the less dealing with photographic ideas and is really interesting on that count.
Step into the enchanting world of ‘HOMAGE’ an enthralling solo exhibition unveiling Andrew Farmer’s evolution of abstract reverie, inspired by the groundbreaking work of the late geometric abstract artist Josef Albers and his iconic ‘HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE’ series. With profound admiration for Albers; legacy, Andrew propels the square form into new frontiers, using tinted resin on mirrored aluminium to orchestrate an ethereal symphony of light, colour and introspection.
WESTERN MELBOURNE
Footscray Community Arts
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Indoors
Chinese Restaurant Playground
Steffie Yee 余淑婷
Exhibition Date: 12 June—15 September 2024
Chinese Restaurant Playground by Steffie Yee 余淑婷, is an exhibition about childhood, imaginative play, and finding joy within the frenetic settings of her parents’ Chinese restaurant.
The exhibition presents a multimedia collection of finished works, and works in progress, exploring the artist’s experience growing up in the regional NSW town of Branxton. Through multilingual animations, videos, illustrations and photographs, Steffie seeks to humanise the people behind the ‘local Chinese restaurant’, whose stories risk being lost due to language barriers and a long record of cultural history that predominantly spotlights Anglo-Celtic and European migration – particularly in regional Australian narratives.
Sutures
Sophie Cassar
15 September 2024
Sutures emerges from Cassar’s research into online archives of disability-based fetish material. These works confront the often-blurred lines between medical intervention and non-consensual touch.
In her artist books, Cassar places photographs from her personal archive alongside texts painted in chlorhexidine, a medical antiseptic used for preoperative skin disinfection. Pink-tinged and delicate, this pairing explores the idea of an “embodied perpetual girlhood”, underscoring the persistent intrusion of medical treatment in shaping one’s sexuality and self-perception.
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Indoors
Chinese Restaurant Playground
Steffie Yee 余淑婷
Exhibition Date: 12 June—15 September 2024
Chinese Restaurant Playground by Steffie Yee 余淑婷, is an exhibition about childhood, imaginative play, and finding joy within the frenetic settings of her parents’ Chinese restaurant.
The exhibition presents a multimedia collection of finished works, and works in progress, exploring the artist’s experience growing up in the regional NSW town of Branxton. Through multilingual animations, videos, illustrations and photographs, Steffie seeks to humanise the people behind the ‘local Chinese restaurant’, whose stories risk being lost due to language barriers and a long record of cultural history that predominantly spotlights Anglo-Celtic and European migration – particularly in regional Australian narratives.
Sutures
Sophie Cassar
15 September 2024
Sutures emerges from Cassar’s research into online archives of disability-based fetish material. These works confront the often-blurred lines between medical intervention and non-consensual touch.
In her artist books, Cassar places photographs from her personal archive alongside texts painted in chlorhexidine, a medical antiseptic used for preoperative skin disinfection. Pink-tinged and delicate, this pairing explores the idea of an “embodied perpetual girlhood”, underscoring the persistent intrusion of medical treatment in shaping one’s sexuality and self-perception.
Werribee Train Station
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Affirm
Peter Waples-Crowe
to 31 December 2024
Located within the architecture of Station Place, Peter Waples-Crowe’s site-based exhibition Affirm sits in the expansive window-based architrave and entrance to the subterranean hub of the Station. The artist has worked with his image-based archive—itself incorporating new and found imagery—moulded as raw material, often subverting the imagery’s original intents and purposes.
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Affirm
Peter Waples-Crowe
to 31 December 2024
Located within the architecture of Station Place, Peter Waples-Crowe’s site-based exhibition Affirm sits in the expansive window-based architrave and entrance to the subterranean hub of the Station. The artist has worked with his image-based archive—itself incorporating new and found imagery—moulded as raw material, often subverting the imagery’s original intents and purposes.
Substation - Newport
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Object of Projection
Kim Gordon
To 24 August 2024
While many would recognise Kim Gordon for her iconic work with Sonic Youth, she has maintained an exploratory art practice since the late 1970s. These works are the subject of a new exhibition at The Substation.
Object Of Projection presents a compelling survey of her works, including photographic and mixed media pieces. The exhibition also places focus on her video installations including the recently completed Picture Window and Los Angeles June 6, 2019, where Gordon utilises a guitar as a navigation device through public space in a thought-provoking commentary on performance, surveillance and urban life.
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In tandem with the exhibition is a special presentation of her triptych video installation Proposal For A Dance. This embodied and psychedelic audio visual work features two female performers wielding electric guitars and wearing Rodarte dresses. Their gestures are an experimental choreography; their movements operate as a gesture towards anti-pop ideals and their implications for the female body.
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Object of Projection
Kim Gordon
To 24 August 2024
While many would recognise Kim Gordon for her iconic work with Sonic Youth, she has maintained an exploratory art practice since the late 1970s. These works are the subject of a new exhibition at The Substation.
Object Of Projection presents a compelling survey of her works, including photographic and mixed media pieces. The exhibition also places focus on her video installations including the recently completed Picture Window and Los Angeles June 6, 2019, where Gordon utilises a guitar as a navigation device through public space in a thought-provoking commentary on performance, surveillance and urban life.
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In tandem with the exhibition is a special presentation of her triptych video installation Proposal For A Dance. This embodied and psychedelic audio visual work features two female performers wielding electric guitars and wearing Rodarte dresses. Their gestures are an experimental choreography; their movements operate as a gesture towards anti-pop ideals and their implications for the female body.
MELBOURNE NORTH
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
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In a restless world like this is
Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning, Leonie Brialey, Siri Hayes
To 7 September 2024
How many worlds are within, or nested amongst, this one? Is it possible to traverse them, and what might act as the tethers or links between them?
In a restless world like this is emerges in response to two works held in the City of Darebin collection; Siri Hayes’ large-scale photographs, Lyric Theatre at Merri Creek and Crossing the Merri (both 2003). Inviting responses from Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning and Leonie Brialey, this exhibition reverberates outwards from its sources—the Merri Creek as a physical space, but also the Merri Creek as presented within Hayes’ works—to consider what might reside in the generative spaces within and between worlds.
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In a restless world like this is
Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning, Leonie Brialey, Siri Hayes
To 7 September 2024
How many worlds are within, or nested amongst, this one? Is it possible to traverse them, and what might act as the tethers or links between them?
In a restless world like this is emerges in response to two works held in the City of Darebin collection; Siri Hayes’ large-scale photographs, Lyric Theatre at Merri Creek and Crossing the Merri (both 2003). Inviting responses from Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning and Leonie Brialey, this exhibition reverberates outwards from its sources—the Merri Creek as a physical space, but also the Merri Creek as presented within Hayes’ works—to consider what might reside in the generative spaces within and between worlds.
RURAL NORTH OF VICTORIA
Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East
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A Retrospective
Mike Ware
to 11 August 2024
Dr Mike Ware is an accomplished British photographer and with a doctorate in chemistry from Oxford . Mike has undertaken fundamental studies in historic photographic processes and preservation of photographs working with The National Science and Media Museum Bradford and The Victoria and Albert Museum London, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Mike brings real science to bear on alternative processes. He has written three books that are in-depth modern classics of alternative photographic processes along with numerous papers.
Flower Constancy
Jair Garcia
28 August – 20 October 2024
The Vykage montages, masterfully depicting flowers in this exhibition, use a combination of textures, elements, and materials to display the unique characteristics of each piece. The light-sensitive VanDyke solution creates an airy impression of each flower on a diaphanous silk surface, reminiscing the delicate texture of blooming flowers and offering a visual reward to approaching visitors. The silk’s shadow is then reflected on a polished gold leaf, re-imagining the flower and creating a mesmerising double image that dances in our eyes with a warm, flickering illusion that reconstructs the tridimensional volume of each flower, albeit briefly.
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A Retrospective
Mike Ware
to 11 August 2024
Dr Mike Ware is an accomplished British photographer and with a doctorate in chemistry from Oxford . Mike has undertaken fundamental studies in historic photographic processes and preservation of photographs working with The National Science and Media Museum Bradford and The Victoria and Albert Museum London, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Mike brings real science to bear on alternative processes. He has written three books that are in-depth modern classics of alternative photographic processes along with numerous papers.
Flower Constancy
Jair Garcia
28 August – 20 October 2024
The Vykage montages, masterfully depicting flowers in this exhibition, use a combination of textures, elements, and materials to display the unique characteristics of each piece. The light-sensitive VanDyke solution creates an airy impression of each flower on a diaphanous silk surface, reminiscing the delicate texture of blooming flowers and offering a visual reward to approaching visitors. The silk’s shadow is then reflected on a polished gold leaf, re-imagining the flower and creating a mesmerising double image that dances in our eyes with a warm, flickering illusion that reconstructs the tridimensional volume of each flower, albeit briefly.
Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat
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Lost in Palm Springs
Kate Ballis, Tom Blachford, Anna Carey, Sam Cranstoun, Paul Davies, Rosi Griffin, Vicki Stravrou, Robyn Sweaney and Gosia Wlodarczak. American artists in the exhibition are Darren Bradley, Jim Isermann, Troy Kudlac, Lance O’Donnell and Kim Stringfellow.
4 May to 1 September 2024
This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture, or reimagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city.
Connections between Palm Springs and Australia are remarkably strong, particularly when viewed through the lens of the current renaissance of interest in modernist architecture. Place and home, desert atmospheres, landscapes (real and imagined), and Bauhaus sensibilities inform the works.
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Lost in Palm Springs
Kate Ballis, Tom Blachford, Anna Carey, Sam Cranstoun, Paul Davies, Rosi Griffin, Vicki Stravrou, Robyn Sweaney and Gosia Wlodarczak. American artists in the exhibition are Darren Bradley, Jim Isermann, Troy Kudlac, Lance O’Donnell and Kim Stringfellow.
4 May to 1 September 2024
This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture, or reimagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city.
Connections between Palm Springs and Australia are remarkably strong, particularly when viewed through the lens of the current renaissance of interest in modernist architecture. Place and home, desert atmospheres, landscapes (real and imagined), and Bauhaus sensibilities inform the works.
Castlemaine Art Museum - Castlemaine
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Portraits from the Collection
Various artists
to 15 September 2024
This is an exhibition of profiles, slanted light, shadowy forms and occasional smiles. Paintings by Polly Hurry, Arnold Shore, W D McInnes, Hugh Ramsay, Mary Cecil Allen, A M E Bale and May Vale, among many others, explore the play of light on skin and fabric. The 19th and 20th century works from the collection form a wall of painted ghosts. Traces of once-living subjects are caught in a moment of stillness. They are not relaxed, they are posed and composed, tense, cigarette in hand, faces taut with concentration.
The interest in light and composition is shared by photographers such as Randolph Buchner, Hugh Frankland and Richard Beck whose work features in a selection of black and white portraits of artists – from a brooding John Brack to Dorothy Braund, Olga Cohn and Danila Vassilieff.
Some portraits are not just of people. The living culture of the Jaara and Dja Dja Wurrung community is represented in the extraordinary series of photographs by James Henry from 2020/21. The project known as 18 Families shows the deep ongoing connection to country of the descendants of the eighteen known ancestors whose traditional lands include the Country around Castlemaine, Harcourt, Maldon and beyond.
In photographic portraits by Castlemaine artist Michael Wolfe, featuring 21 visual artists over age 70 from Mount Alexander Shire, this exhibition projection 20/70 explores how an artist’s practice is both dynamic and in constant evolution. Just what does creativity, character and commitment count for across a lifetime as an artist?
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Portraits from the Collection
Various artists
to 15 September 2024
This is an exhibition of profiles, slanted light, shadowy forms and occasional smiles. Paintings by Polly Hurry, Arnold Shore, W D McInnes, Hugh Ramsay, Mary Cecil Allen, A M E Bale and May Vale, among many others, explore the play of light on skin and fabric. The 19th and 20th century works from the collection form a wall of painted ghosts. Traces of once-living subjects are caught in a moment of stillness. They are not relaxed, they are posed and composed, tense, cigarette in hand, faces taut with concentration.
The interest in light and composition is shared by photographers such as Randolph Buchner, Hugh Frankland and Richard Beck whose work features in a selection of black and white portraits of artists – from a brooding John Brack to Dorothy Braund, Olga Cohn and Danila Vassilieff.
Some portraits are not just of people. The living culture of the Jaara and Dja Dja Wurrung community is represented in the extraordinary series of photographs by James Henry from 2020/21. The project known as 18 Families shows the deep ongoing connection to country of the descendants of the eighteen known ancestors whose traditional lands include the Country around Castlemaine, Harcourt, Maldon and beyond.
In photographic portraits by Castlemaine artist Michael Wolfe, featuring 21 visual artists over age 70 from Mount Alexander Shire, this exhibition projection 20/70 explores how an artist’s practice is both dynamic and in constant evolution. Just what does creativity, character and commitment count for across a lifetime as an artist?
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National Photography Prize 2024
Alex Walker & Daniel O’Toole, Ali McCann, Ali Tahayori, Ellen Dahl, Ioulia Panoutsopoulos, Izabela Pluta, Kai Wasikowski, Nathan Beard, Olga Svyatova, Rebecca McCauley & Aaron Claringbold, Sammy Hawker, and Skye Wagner.
to 1 September 2024
In consideration of the medium's fluid history, the National Photography Prize encourages artists working across all areas of the photographic field to enter. This includes artists working in traditional forms of light based, chemical production through to those dealing with hybrid and expanded fields of photography and image making.
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National Photography Prize 2024
Alex Walker & Daniel O’Toole, Ali McCann, Ali Tahayori, Ellen Dahl, Ioulia Panoutsopoulos, Izabela Pluta, Kai Wasikowski, Nathan Beard, Olga Svyatova, Rebecca McCauley & Aaron Claringbold, Sammy Hawker, and Skye Wagner.
to 1 September 2024
In consideration of the medium's fluid history, the National Photography Prize encourages artists working across all areas of the photographic field to enter. This includes artists working in traditional forms of light based, chemical production through to those dealing with hybrid and expanded fields of photography and image making.
