Upcoming Exhibitions
VIC
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Lost in Palm Springs
The Art Gallery of Ballarat
4th May - 1st Sep 2024This 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.
The Australian artists represented in the exhibition are 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.
Curated by artist Dr Greer Honeywill, Lost in Palm Springs is a touring initiative developed by HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through its Visions of Australia program and through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and proudly sponsored by IAS Fine Art Logistics and o2 Architecture.
Museums & Galleries Queensland is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funds from Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.
Image: Kate Ballis
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MAPh X Artist photography auction
James Makin Gallery, Collingwood
Thursday 6 June 2024MAPh has once again joined forces with our artists to create a unique auction where we will share equally in the sale proceeds of their work, giving buyers the opportunity to have a direct impact on artists and their practice.
This year we have a stunning and unique selection of photographic works by leading contemporary Australian artists including Murray Fredericks, Anne Zahalka, Petrina Hicks, The Huxleys, Tamara Dean and so many more.
Funds raised through the sale of artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practice.
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I SHOT 23 Exhibition HOME / AWAY
Craftworks Abbotsford
1 March 2024In Melbourne, the Image Makers Association Australia (IMAA) presents a selection of images from the I SHOT 23 exhibition HOME / AWAY at Craftworks in Abbotsford, Victoria
An initiative of the many tenants in the building that includes CHT Architects, who designed Craftworks and reside in the building, the large lobby gallery area is the perfect place to showcase images that were a part of the larger I SHOT 23 exhibition featured in Stylecraft showrooms in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth in November 2023.
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Janet Laurence | Tears of dust
Museum of Australian Photography
1 March -26 May 2024Janet Laurence’s immersive, multisensory installation Tears of dust reflects upon the fragility and power of the natural environment. Her intensely seductive and yet haunting evocations of the natural environment create encounters with our changing planet.
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Sonia Payes | Renaissance: A Journey of Transformation
Museum of Australian Photography
1 March -26 May 2024
In this site-specific installation across MAPh’s sculpture park, Sonia Payes embraces the sculptural possibilities of the photographic medium. Payes’ interpretation of possible futures examines the impact of human intervention on the planet. -
Edward Burtynsky | Extraction
Museum of Australian Photography
1 March -26 May 2024
Over the last forty years, Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has photographed landscapes all over the world, documenting how human systems and industry are reshaping our planet.In 2022, Burtynsky photographed Ravensworth Mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, an open cut mine producing coal for export. Presented through ten large-format photographs, these aerial images show the scale of active industry and seduce the viewer via sensual patterns and topography.
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Corben Mudjandi | 009
Museum of Australian Photography
1 March - 26 May 2024This exhibition features works by Mirarr Traditional Owner and visual artist Corben Mudjandi. The photographs capture his perspectives on Mirarr Country and his own community, displayed alongside images of the former uranium mining site at Ranger.
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Lingam.K | Melting icescape / black landscapes
Museum of Australian Photography
1 March - 26 May 2024Global warming is universal, and melting icescapes are one of the most visual indicators. As humans continue extractive and consumerist industries, our behaviours permanently affect the landscape, resulting in significant ecological impact – leaving an ineradicable ‘human signature’. Melting icescapes/black landscapes is a response to the glacial melt due to climate change. Using the alternative photographic processes of salt printing, the project captures the impending ecological collapse and encourages reflection on our relationship and impact on the landscape. It visually articulates the passing of time through the fading of the salt print and the effects of climate change on glacial landscapes.
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Melbourne Out Loud: Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis
State Library of Victoria
1st March 2024 – 28th January 2025If 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.
Part of the Photo 2024 International Festival of Photography, Melbourne Out Loud is a collection of iconic, unseen and everyday photographs from one of our greatest chroniclers. A celebration of going out, being seen and being yourself.
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Shepparton Art Museum I PHOTO 2024
1 March - 14 July 2024
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is pleased to announce its participation in the biennial PHOTO 2024 festival in March 2024. From 1 March to 14 July 2024, American artist Ryan McGinley's photographic project YEARBOOK will be showing at SAM, marking the artist's first solo exhibition in Australia.An ever-evolving project, YEARBOOK is a large-scale photographic installation consisting of over seven hundred studio portraits of musicians, artists, and creatives living and working in New York.
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency | Nan Goldin
Art Gallery of Ballarat
2nd March - 2nd June 2024The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s. Nan Goldin’s extended photographic study of her chosen family – her ‘tribe’ – began life as a slide show screened in the clubs and bars of New York where Goldin and her friends worked and played. The slide show was then distilled to a series of 126 photographs, which has recently become part of the National Gallery’s collection.
Goldin takes photographs to connect, to keep the people she loves in her memory. She is committed to the idea that photography can faithfully record a time and place, and do so in a way that has real social purpose. Using a documentary, snapshot style, she lays bare her life in the manner of a family album. We see her alongside her friends and lovers as they live their lives – hanging out, falling in and out of love, having children. But this is a community that would be decimated by HIV/AIDS and drug-related deaths. The Ballad has become as much a testament to how much Goldin and her community have lost, as it is a record of the look and feel of a past time.
Goldin refers to The Ballad as her ‘public diary’, stating that her photographs ‘come out of relationships, not observation’. The work’s overriding themes, she has stated, are those of love and empathy and the tension between autonomy and interdependence in relationships—relationships in which all genders struggle to find a common language.
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Execute_Photography
RMIT Gallery Melbourne
1 March - 4 MayPhotography is constantly dying and being reborn. AI represents the latest stage of photography’s transformation into a software output, cannibalising the camera and even transforming it into a set of executable text prompts. If it is now clear that photography is a kind of ‘program’, and that images are operational, actionable and scrapable, what does this mean for the future of the medium? Both an exploration and a provocation, this exhibition features work by Australian and international artists speculating on the social and political ramifications of photography’s afterlives.
NSW
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The Liquid Night - Bill Henson
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
12th April – 11th May 2024Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present The Liquid Night, an exhibition of new images by Bill Henson shot in New York City in 1989 on 35mm colour negative film.
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National Photography Prize 2024
Murray Art Museum Albury, MAMA. Paul Ramsay Galleries
23 Mar - 1 Sep, 2024Every two years the National Photography Prize offers an opportunity to consider the vital role of photography in contemporary art in Australia. The National Photography Prize brings together artists from across Australia who are developing and challenging photographic language and techniques.
Generously supported by the MAMA Art Foundation, the National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.
The Prize provides a forum for artists working with photography to present cohesive selections of work, or works in series, offering a depth of critical reflection that recognises the complexities and nuances of the history of the photograph and its contemporary manifestation.
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.
The 2024 National Photography Prize finalists include leading Australian artists and collectives 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.
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Ocean Photographer of the Year
17 November 2023 - 26 May 2024
Sea MuseumThe Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition features over 100 photographs of beautiful and thought-provoking imagery from some of the world’s best ocean photographers.
Photographs reveal the full spectrum of ocean life through a wealth of drone, land and underwater images and include stunning imagery of wildlife encounters, seascapes, and beautiful interpretations of the human-ocean connection.
Ocean Photographer of the Year showcases all the winners and finalists from Oceanographic Magazine’s renowned competition, the Ocean Photographer of the Year awards, attracting entrants from across the world – from amateurs and professionals alike.
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Developing Sydney: on the cusp of change 1901
Customs House
5 October 2023 - 30 June 2024Sydney’s built landscape rapidly urbanised in the first two decades of the 20th century, embracing modern buildings, sanitation, infrastructure, and commerce. Old houses and pubs, little warehouses and factories, crumbling stables, and quaint shops – many dating from the 1840s and untouched for over 50 years – were swept away in piecemeal demolitions and neighbourhood resumptions.
From 1900, the City Building Surveyor’s department of Sydney Municipal Council used photography to document the city’s profound transformation. The photographs inadvertently capture the largely working-class neighbourhoods and people being displaced by commercial and government redevelopment. Aboriginal people are largely absent from these photographs, despite their ongoing presence in the city.
The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives. This display highlights photographs taken in 1901, when Sydney was on the cusp of change.
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Shot - various
State Library of NSW
29 October 2023 - 20 October 2024400 photographs | 200 photographers | 3 centuries
Shot delves into the Library’s extraordinary collection of two million images and delivers a visual feast of 400 captivating moments — many displayed for the first time — with nearly every photographic format and every year between 1845 and 2022 represented.
The exhibition features Australia’s oldest photograph, the earliest examples of colour photography, iconic works by some of our most acclaimed photographers and contemporary images and commentary by over 30 living photographers.
On display for the first time are 25 large glass plate negatives from the Holtermann collection which form an astonishing 9-metre panorama of Sydney in 1875.
Due to the delicate nature of numerous works, this may be the first and only time to see some of these rare images of Australia’s pictorial history on display.
ACT
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Focus: Australian Government Photographers
National Archives of Australia
17 November 2023 to 10 June 2024Focus: Australian government photographers brings Australia's government photographers out of the darkroom and into the spotlight.
Between 1939 and 1996, dozens of photographers were employed by government agencies to capture Australian life. This fascinating exhibition delves deep into the lives and work of these talented individuals who helped to preserve our rich visual heritage, including Harry Frauca, Max Dupain, Mervyn Bishop and many more.
Focus invites visitors on a journey spanning six decades of Australian life.
Explore a diverse selection of work that includes intimate nature photography, striking architectural shots and images that capture everyday memories from Australia's past.
Step into our virtual darkroom and experience the magic of photography by watching pictures develop before your eyes.
Experience the power of photography to shape perceptions, ignite conversation and preserve memories.
WA
TAS