Centre for Contemporary Photography [CCP]

  • Australia’s largest photomedia competition, this exhibition continues to be one of the most significant surveys of contemporary photography in Australia, presented in the famous ‘floor-to-ceiling’ Salon hang that has become a signature of this community-focused event.

  • ‘Cracked’ won NCAT Photography's prize for Best Darkroom Print, at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2022.

  • Scroll down to view additional entries for 2021-2023.

  • Entry for CCP Summer Salon, 2021. Experimental photographic work exploring cyanotype chemistry and darkroom paper.

  • Entry for CCP Summer Salon, 2022

  • Winner of NCAT's Best Darkroom Print, at CCP, 2022.

  • Entry for CCP Summer Salon, 2022

  • Entry for CCP Summer Salon, 2023

  • Entry for CCP Summer Salon, 2021

FortHeart

  • FortyFive Downstairs, September, 2024.

    FORT EARTH is a highly curated exhibition + project providing the opportunity for invited visual artists, painters, illustrators, installation artists, makers and creators to research and develop personal or collaborative artworks in a sustainable, conscious way - while thinking deeper into the way we see art changing the world sustainably.

    This exhibition is also open to photographic and film works that are based on sustainability and environmental issues our world faces. Over the months leading up to the exhibition, invited artists will be profiled / interviewed and also asked to document some of their research and process. With more information and prompts leading up to the exhibition and formal communications to come.

    FORT EARTH hopes to bring attention to how these practices and processes can be achieved within the artistic community and what thoughts have come up during this process. FORT EARTH will not only provide a platform for creative connection and collaboration, but also highlight the environmental issues that our world faces today.

    ART WILL SAVE THE WORLD

    Artist Statement:
    Threads’ comments on the fast fashion industry where large quantities of cheaply-made-plastic-rich clothes often end up in landfill on the other side of the world, exporting and exploiting countries like Ghana, Burkina or Accra in West Africa. Australia is one of the biggest fashion consumers in the world with the average Australian buying 56 new items of clothing a year. While daily fashions can empower us and our identity, this form of subcultural conspicuous consumption can be damaging when keeping up with the latest micro-trends accelerated by social media. The fashion industry has capitalized on the connection between identity and self-representation, rather than defining ourselves with material action. In the age of social media, merit is given to how we are perceived rather than who we are. This is demonstrated in the image, portraying a wasteland of clothes and an iconographic figure presented as a symbol of aesthetic worship. In the spirit of sustainability, the work is printed on Cotton Rag, a natural paper made from 100% cotton that historically came from textile waste from large clothing manufacturers. The frame comprises recycled timber from an old Grand Piano. Upcycle and recycle your clothes.

  • Art partnership between FortHeart and Bouvardia. A new venue in Melbourne's CBD. A detailed drink focused bar - now with a focus on fine art and supporting established and emerging artists.

  • GATHER | TOGETHER
    June, 2023
    Displayed at the Long Gallery during Dark Mofo.

    This show brings together artists from across the country and locally within Tasmania. Gather Together is a group show celebrating community and connection. Establishing new friends and audiences within the artists world.

  • FOR THE DECKADE
    November, 2022. Backwoods Gallery.

    'Celebrating the skateboard as a canvas'

  • Fort Earth, 2024

  • Bouvardia, 2023

  • Bouvardia, 2023

  • Bouvardia, 2023

  • Gather | Together, 2023

  • Gather | Together, 2023

  • Gather | Together, 2023

  • For The Deckade, 2022

  • For The Deckade, 2022

  • For The Deckade, 2022

Off The Kerb

  • Spring Days is a group exhibition of 50+ of Melbourne’s finest creatives. This exhibition will raise funds for Sri Lanka experiencing the greatest economic ruin in its history.

    Due to the government’s mis-management of funds, the COVID pandemic and the Easter bombings in 2019, the country is unable to pay their foreign debts. They are unable to buy essential goods such as fuel, gas, food and medicines from abroad. Inflation is running at record highs of 54% which has impacted all Sri Lankans, most significantly the poor communities.

    Off the Kerb’s director, Shini Pararajasingham designed a brief calling her creative community to respond to the themes of Spring. Her vision is to create an exhibition of artworks radiating hope for the future, positivity and a renaissance for the people of Sri Lanka. This show is to raise awareness and highlight the urgent needs of the people of Sri Lanka ignored and forgotten by the western world.

    This exhibition will be formally opened by MP Samantha Ratnam, an Australian social worker, politician and the leader of the Victorian Greens. Samantha Ratnam and her family left the country after the ‘Black July’ 1983 riots in Colombo that gave rise to 30-year Sri Lankan Civil War.

    This exhibition will donate 15% from art sales to these grass roots charities on the ground so they can provide food security, and on-going immediate assistance to the crisis affected population of Sri Lanka;

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