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Opening 1: ‘Territories’ at Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne on Thursday...
Exhibition dates: April 3rd – May 1st 2009 Curator: Shane Hulbert Group photography show with artists Shane Hulbert (Aus), John Billan (Aus), So Hing Keung (HK), Stephanie Neoh (Aus), Darren...
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Review: ‘Jill Orr: Vision’ at Jenny Port Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 2nd June – 3rd July, 2010 . Many thankx to Amelia Douglas and Jenny Port Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in this posting. . A huge gallery crawl on Wednesday last...
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Review: ‘Tourist #5: Disappearing Project 1 – 41′ by Nicola Loder at Helen...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 7th April 2012 . “Fredric Jameson wrote that in the postmodern world, the subject is not alienated but fragmented. He explained that the notion of alienation presumes a...
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Exhibition: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen: The Camera as a Mirror’ at the Moderna...
Exhibition dates: 18th February 2012 – 22nd April 2012 . Many thankx to the Moderna Museet for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Review: ‘Jacqui Stockdale: The Quiet Wild’ at Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 18th April – 19th May 2012 . After a slow start to the season there has be a veritable feast of excellent photography exhibitions in Melbourne over the last month or so, including...
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Exhibition: ‘Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun’ at the Art Institute of...
Exhibition dates: 25th February – 3rd June 2012 . “In many ways, Cahun’s life was marked by a sense of role reversal, and her public identity became a commentary upon not only her own, but the...
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Exhibition: ‘Cindy Sherman’ at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 11th June 2012 . Ceaselessly inventive, the bodies (literally) of work of Cindy Sherman are a wonder to behold. From film stills to head shots, from history portrait...
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Exhibition: ‘Francesca Woodman’ at The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Exhibition dates: 16th March – 13th June 2012 . In 1981, at the age of twenty-two, she committed suicide. Simple words, profound effect. The world lost one of its truly unique artists and at such a...
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Exhibition: ‘Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th May – 2nd September 2012 . It was then – and still is – about obtaining the freedom to choose one’s own life and identity. . Christer Strömholm . These are stunning photographs;...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art,...
Exhibition dates: 25th May – 30th September 2012 . “Perfection means you don’t question anything about the photograph. There are certain pictures I’ve taken in which you really can’t move that leaf or...
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Exhibition: ‘Janina Green: Ikea’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 28th November 28 – 15th December 2012 . . Installation photograph of Ikea by Janina Green at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne . . “It is necessary to revisit what Walter Benjamin said...
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Exhibition: ‘The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One...
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2012 – 31st December 2012 . Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe Paul Strand / Rebecca Strand Emmet Gowin / Edith Gowin Harry Callahan / Eleanor and Barbara Callahan...
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Text: ‘Orality, (n)framing and enactment in the art of Jacqui Stockdale’ in...
. “What does it mean, to rediscover an unknown continent through the medium of photography in the 21st century? The seven artists that appear in this “Unfound in Australia” issue are well versed in the...
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Exhibition: ‘XTRAVAGANZA. Staging Leigh Bowery’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . I can die happy now that I have had the opportunity to do a posting on this amazing man. He challenged social stereotypes turning his body into...
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Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 18th May 2013 . Undertaking research in to the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole, I wanted to know more about “South African colonial photography”...
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Review: ‘Lee Grant / Belco Pride’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 22nd June 2013 . In Belco Pride, the photographer Lee Grant comes as close as you are ever likely to come to an Australian version of the American photographer Alec Soth...
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Exhibition: ‘Lorna Simpson’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 28th May – 1st September 2013 . Fascinating practice! Identity, memory, gender, representation, the body, the subject, felt, text, images, video, gesture, reenactment, concept and...
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Exhibition: ‘This Is Not A Silent Movie: Four Contemporary Alaska Native...
Exhibition dates: 26th May – 8th September 2013 . Another interesting exhibition that this blog likes promoting, this time about mixed-race identity. . Many thankx to The Craft & Folk Art Museum...
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Exhibition: ‘The Gender Show’ at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Exhibition dates: 15th June – 13th October 2013 . I am so sick of museums and art galleries not allowing me to publish photographs that I collect freely available elsewhere on the web to illustrate...
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Exhibition: ‘Ana Mendieta: Traces’ at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Exhibition dates: 29th March – 6th July 2014 If I had half of this artists courage, I might not even have a quarter of her talent. Marcus . Many thankx to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg for allowing...
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