New Show: Item Level

I'm thrilled to announce the opening of my solo exhibition, Item Level, at Five Walls next Friday 30th August 6 - 8pm. It’s playful exploration of photography and archival materiality and marks my first show back after a long maternity break.

The concept for Item Level developed during my time at the British Library in London, where I worked with an extensive photographic archive. I've shared more about the exhibition in a new blog post over at Your Photo Legacy.

Exhibition: Ode to Marion, Incinerator Gallery - Melbourne

Ode to Marion is an exhibition of contemporary art paying homage to 20th century architect Marion Mahony Griffin’s often overlooked architectural and artistic legacy.

I am very excited be part of this exhibition, opening at the Incinerator Gallery in Melbourne on Friday, 7 June until Sunday, 28 July.

Ode to Marion brings together contributions from Melbourne’s women artists, writers, speakers, animators and architects, to reflect on Mahony Griffin’s legacy and ensure that the work creative women do is visible in our community today. The exhibition includes work from Tracey Lamb, Noriko Nakamura, Yuria Okamura, Meredith Turnbull and Esther Stewart, curated by Boe-Lin Bastian.

Click here to download invitation. Invitation Image Credit: Meredith Turnbull, 'Cosmic will in gleams of air', 2019 (detail), digital collage.

All in All, it’s all still standing, 2019 (2009).
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 31.5 x 41.51cm
Edition of 5 + 2 Ap

Archive in Practice: An Imagined Exhibition

I recently wrote an article for Spanish Archives and Record Management Journal Archivoz, that reflects on my enduring engagement with the archive.

Publications: Concrete Post

The Concrete Post Publications series have just been released, thanks to the fabulous design efforts of Andrew Tetzlaff. Each catalogue documents the three individual exhibitions that took place in different contexts, between 2014-2015.

Concrete Post 1:
The Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne 2014
Catalogue

Concrete Post 2:
Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne 2015
Catalogue

Concrete Post 3:
Raum 2810, Bonn, Germany, 2015
Catalogue

CONCRETE POST is a collaborative who explores the known and felt experience through a sensitive engagement with Concrete Art, light, colour, time and materiality. Sculptures, paintings, photographs and digital video are arranged into a composite artwork that unfolds over time and reveals itself through curiosity and observation.

Exhibition: Interweaving Archives

The Interweaving Archives project will be on display at l'Arxiu Comarcal de l'Urgell (ACUR) until 20 July. 

The project explores how my own personal photographic archive intersected with the photographic collections at ACUR over the residency period. One of the outcomes of this project was a limited edition postcard series that features an image from each archive on either side of the card. The lack of descriptive information attributed to the ACUR collections was used as stimulus to explore and construct meaning, through subjective, intuitive responses.

This project was made possible through the Residència de creació Program, Departament de Cultura. Generalitat de Catalunya / Ministry of Culture. Government of Catalonia.

Exhibition: Excavation, Arts West, University of Melbourne

Art will be keeping Melbourne awake on the night of 27 July, where a number of galleries, museums, artist run initiatives and undiscovered spaces will be open after dark. 

I'm excited to be part of it through Excavation, a 3 person/1 night show curated by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise held at Arts West, The University of Melbourne. 

Click for more details on the Nite Art Program

Artist in Residence: The Arxiu Comarcal de l’Urgell (ACUR

 The archive as a site of creative regeneration: 

I am delighted to announce that, as part of the ACUR Residency Program, I have the opportunity to spend 3 weeks exploring the photographs held in The Arxiu Comarcal de l'Urgell- a public archive based in Tàrrega, in the Urgell region of Catalunya.

I will be focusing on how the regions’ architecture and topography have been represented in the past, and how the material has been described, catalogued and made accessible to the public. This research will intersect into my own subjective experience of being based in Tàrrega and its regional surrounds and will impact upon my visual enquiry. 

Further details of the public program soon to come! Follow my instagram for further updates

Publication: All The Gardens I Could Find

Click on the image to download the 'All The Gardens I Could Find' catalogue text, featuring an interview with Philip Goldswain.

Artist in Residence: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

A preview into some of the new systems that I've been developing as part of my studio residency at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. These pictorial structures will form part of my exhibition, All The Gardens I Could Find at Blindside in mid November. 

Click for further details. 

Exhibition: Performing Cinema

I’m very pleased that my work, 'A Way With it All [By Dusk]', will be included in Performing Cinema; a screening of video works by Australian artists that explore cinema as a means to interpret performance, curated by Simone Hine & Kyle Weise.

The screening will take place at 6pm on 25 October, 2016 at Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland.
Click here for more details. 

Interview: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Studio Residency Program

This interview has featured on the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art website, in the lead up to the Open Studio Night.

Please join us on Tuesday 18th, 6pm.

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Perth Cultural Centre
51 James Street
Northbridge
Perth, WA, 6003

Artist in Residence: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

All the Gardens I Could Find
During my residency at PICA I will concentrate on developing a comprehensive cataloguing system for all the material in my personal photographic archive related to gardens. The work created will be exhibited at Blindside in November. 

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Western Australia

20 September – 30 October 2016
Open studio night: Tuesday 18 October 2016

Artist in Residence: Box Hill Community Arts Centre

I will spend the last month of the Melbourne winter, working in the loft studio at Box Hill Community Arts centre. My desk faces the window, which looks out over the Box Hill Community Gardens – such an inspiring space. 

Here, I will be developing the photographic portrait series, Gardener Archive, which depicts gardeners standing within their gardens. The photographs aim to capture that very intimate relationship between gardener and garden, which is physical and psychological. This series was initiated while I was on a residency at La Maison Verte in Marnay-Sur-Seine, in France and over time it will become an inventory of different garden spaces and styles specific to various locations around the world. 

If you would like to be the subject of a garden portrait, please get in touch with me.

Project: All the gardens I could find

Table 1

An Empty Greenhouse
Artist-in-Residence at La Maison Verte

I spent 1 month working in the Jardin botanique de Marnay-sur-Seine in France, hosted by the La Maison Verte Residency Program. I brought works together in the Empty Greenhouse. I utilised the tables (normally used to organise botanical species) to explore subtle and playful connections between the imagery, the light and architecture of the Greenhouse and with elements of the surrounding garden.  Ordering of knowledge, archiving of image and systems of display were at the core of this project. 

Publication: Variations on Scopio Networks

My project Variations: Re-orientation has been published through Scopio Networks - an independent platform that focuses on art and documentary photographic practice and research in relation to architecture. 

Exhibition: El Paper de l'Art

I contributed these 6 works to the El Paper de l'Art - a festival denoted to art on paper, involving 20 galleries in Barcelona. 

Exhibition: STREAM: A ROOM FOR THE CONSCIOUS MIND

I am delighted to be part of an (lt) project, together with Samuel Stewart, as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival.

STREAM: A Room For The Conscious Mind - is presented and curated by Laura Thompson and runs up until September 29th.

Exhibition: Concrete Post 3 at Raum 2810

International networks at the borderline of the concrete, curated by: Andrew Tetzlaff (US/AUS), David Thomas (AUS) and Christoph Dahlhausen (GER). 

Publication: Catalogue for Wandering Archive

The 'Wandering Archive' catalogue essay by Kyle Weise and Simone Hine has been revised for the upcoming exhibition at Blindside [29 July - 15 August 2015].

Read here