STILLS Gallery, Paris Photo 2015

STILLS GALLERY - PARIS PHOTO 12-15 Nov 2015 | Stand A36

Trent Parke Patrick Pound Justine Varga

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Trent Parke Dirt swirl 77, 2010 pigment print, 80 x 60cm

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At Paris Photo 2015, Stills Gallery will present three contemporary artists who offer uniquely expansive approaches to the photographic medium. Magnum photographer Trent Parke transforms personal narratives into universal themes of life and loss; conceptual artist Patrick Pound finds amusing and poetic connections within a vast collection of found photographs; and Justine Varga uses camera-less photography to accumulate time and performative gestures within seductive fields of colour.

Stills Gallery is one of Australia’s longest running commercial galleries and one of the few specializing in contemporary photography. The gallery supports both emerging and established artists working across the spectrum of photomedia. ...

Stills Gallery présentera trois artistes contemporains qui offrent des approches vastes au médium photographique. Le photographe Trent Parke, utilise des récits personnels et les transforme en thèmes universels de la vie et de la perte; l’artiste conceptuel Patrick Pound trouve des connexions amusantes et poétiques dans une collection de photographies trouvées; Justine Varga utilise la photographie prise sans camera, pour accumuler de temps et de gestes performatifs dans les domaines seductive.

La Galerie Stills est l’une des galeries les plus anciennes et les plus reconnues en Australie. Elle est spécialisée en photographie contemporaine. La galerie représente et défend à la fois des artistes émergents et des artistes établis et reconnus.

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Trent Parke

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Trent Parke Candid portrait of a man on a street corner, Adelaide, 2013 silver gelatin fibre based print, 160 x 120cm

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Trent Parke Dash, 2009 pigment print, 150 x 120cm

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Trent Parke Falls Creek, Victoria, 2011 silver gelatin fibre based print, 150 x 120cm

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Trent Parke Tarot Cards, 2003-2015 36 pigment prints, 20.5 x 17.5cm each

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Trent Parke Dirt swirl 6h, 2010 pigment print, 80 x 60cm

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Trent Parke’s distinctive vision blurs the line between documentary photography and a psychological exploration of the medium. Following on from his solo exhibition at Paris Photo 2014, we will present key works from his new series The Black Rose (2015). The sudden, tragic death of his mother when he was 12 was the catalyst for this series. As an adult and a father of two, Parke was compelled to revisit this loss, to excavate and make sense of his memories. Created over seven years, The Black Rose comprises hundreds of photos as well as videos and texts, which explore universal themes of birth, death, love, loss, memory and the passing of time from a deeply personal perspective.

Parke is a storyteller who makes art out of everyday occurrences. His responses to daily life are raw, fast and intuitive. In creating this body of work details of the natural world and everyday life took on enormous significance and Parke, ever the storyteller, searched for connections between moments, memories and symbols. The subjects are both great and small, from vast desert landscapes to close ups of ants on a cracker, from horizon lines to a single hair. Some of the works draw on the imagery of mysticism, of dirt swirls and tarot cards, reminding the viewer that despite the very personal nature of his investigation, Parke’s work reflects more broadly on our attempts to make sense of personal stories, dreams and chance.

Parke was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1971. Since the late 1990s he has worked as a street photographer and artist, creating several major bodies of work, which have been exhibited in galleries throughout Australia and internationally. Parke is the first and only Australian to be elected a full member of the prestigious international photo agency, Magnum, dedicated to humanist documentary photography. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his artwork, including in January 2014 the inaugural Prudential Eye Award for Photography in Singapore, and previously Gold Lenses from the International Olympic Committee, World Press Photo Awards, and the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his series Minutes to Midnight. In 2013, Steidl released two hardback publications of Parke’s work, Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket. Since 2007, Parke has lived in Adelaide with his wife, fellow-photographer, Narelle Autio, and their two young sons. His works are held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Monash Gallery of Art plus numerous private collections.

View Trent Parke portfolio

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Patrick Pound

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Patrick Pound The Big Sleep [detail], 2015 (previous image also) a collection of found photographs, dimensions variable and site specific

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Cast adrift from their original creator and context, the photographs in Patrick Pound’s artworks find new life and meaning in his hands. He is a conceptual artist with a lightness of touch, a master of juxtaposition, whose thought-provoking assemblages of found photographs are full of poetry and whimsy. Pound will create a new work for Paris Photo 2015 The Big Sleep.

The Big Sleep is a collection of found photographs of people who are in caught in a state of repose. They may well be sleeping or they just might be dead. All of the images have been purchased on EBay. All of the images are recently redundant. The collection includes vernacular snaps, press images from defunct newspapers and cinema lobby cards. They add up to a tragi-comic history of a category of photographs from a 19th century image of a cast victim from Pompeii to a sleeping child; from a sleeping actor to a snoozing teenager. There is something menacing, poetic and amusing in these disparate yet strangely related images. The camera reduces the world to a list of things to photograph. Pound’s work treats the world as a puzzle. It is as if we could only find all the pieces we might solve the puzzle. There’s poetry to be had in the continuous attempt and in the little successes, and in our failures. It is as if he has tried to solve the puzzle of the world, and having failed, he has been reduced to collecting it.

With a selection of his other recent artworks also on show, Pound offers a meditation; not only on the tricky nature of photography and reality, but also of humans and the way we navigate the world.

Dr Patrick Pound is a practicing artist and a senior photography lecturer. His research areas include: the invention of documentary style photography, photography and narrative and vernacular photography. He is presently working on two book projects.

One is on Walker Evans and narrative engagement and the other is on the collaboration of the novelist Henry James and the Pictorialist photographer A.L. Coburn.

Pound’s artwork is held in numerous public collections including: The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Museum of New Zealand and the Auckland Art Gallery. His most recent exhibition: ‘The Gallery of Air’ at the NGV, as part of Melbourne Now, was visited by 700,000 visitors.

View Patrick Pound portfolio

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Justine Varga

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Justine Varga Enter, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 123.5 x 98.5cm

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Justine Varga Carry-on, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 97 x 78cm

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Justine Varga Remembering #4, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 46.5 x 37.5cm

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Justine Varga Edge, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 123 x 98.5cm

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Justine Varga Remembering #16, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 97.5 x 78.5cm

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Justine Varga Checked, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 123.5 x 100cm

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From the subtlest explorations of tone to rich explosions of colour and pattern, Justine Varga’s series Accumulate (2014/2015) expands our expectations of photographic abstraction. The works are accumulative in every sense; film, paper and personal moments are layered, echoed and repeated.

Some prints accumulate dense layers through multiple exposures. Others are cameraless photographs - exposed for months at a time. In intriguing ways, each captures the artist’s life during a 2014 London studio residency. The negatives are inflected with her aesthetic sensibility and her autobiography. They accumulate performative gestures, private spaces and personal experiences of time.

By compressing this narrative quality into a single frame, Varga notes, they “shift the decisive moment, stretch it out and collapse it again.” Her approach to photography, therefore, is experimental and improvisational - a response to stuff in her studio or a moving piece of music that’s stuck in her mind. In the case of Enter (2014/2015), for instance, a glowing yellow tells the story of a doormat. Placed by her front door, the negative was trodden on repeatedly for weeks.

Despite this rough-and-ready approach, it is the intricacies of tiny scratches and markings, the idiosyncrasies of analogue film, which become significant compositional elements when the negatives are enlarged into prints. Within the dense fields of colour, expressive graphic lines sketch the print surfaces, while dark stains allude to depths beyond their two-dimensions. These imperfections exquisitely embellish the works with the texture of space and time, as we encounter in lush colour Varga’s capacity to transform the mundane into the sublime.

Justine Varga has achieved impressive recognition since graduating with Honours from the National Art School in 2007. She has been a Finalist in numerous awards, including in 2015 the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), the Bowness Photography Prize and the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. In 2013, she was awarded Joint Winner of the Josephine Ulrick & Win Shubert Photography Award. In 2014, she was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts London Studio Residency, and in 2012, she was selected for Primavera, MCA Australia. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of NSW, Macquarie University and Artbank.

View Justine Varga portfolio

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EXHIBITED WORKS PARIS PHOTO 2015

TRENT PARKE from The Black Rose

Dash, 2009 pigment print, 150 x 120cm edition of 7 + 2AP

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Falls Creek, Victoria, 2011 silver gelatin FB, 150 x 120cm edition of 5 + 2AP

Candid portrait of a man on a street corner, Adelaide, 2013 silver gelatin FB, 160 x 120cm edition of 5 + 2AP

Tarot Cards, 2003-2015 36 pigment prints, 20.5 x 17.5cm each edition of 10 + 2AP

Dirt swirl 77, 2010 pigment print, 80 x 60cm AP1

Dirt swirl 1d, 2010 pigment print, 80 x 60cm edition of 3 + 2AP

Dirt swirl 6b, 2010 pigment print, 80 x 60cm edition of 3 + 2AP

Dirt swirl 6h, 2010 pigment print, 80 x 60cm edition of 3 + 2AP

JUSTINE VARGA

Edge, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 123 x 98.5cm AP1

Enter, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 123.5 x 98.5cm AP1

Exit (Red state), 2014/2015 type C hand print, 122 x 98.5cm AP1

Remembering #16, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 97.5 x 78.5cm edition of 5 + 2AP

Checked, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 123.5 x 100cm AP1

Carry-on, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 97 x 78cm edition of 5 + 2AP

Remembering #4, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 46.5 x 37.5cm edition of 5 + 2AP

Remembering #5, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 65 x 52cm edition of 5 + 2AP

Remembering #9, 2014/2015 type C hand print, 55 x 43.5cm edition of 5 + 2AP

PATRICK POUND

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The Big Sleep [detail], 2015 installation of a collection of found photographs, dimensions variable and site specific unique

The Circle Game (Occult), 2015 7 found photographs, 41.5 x 130 unique

Two circles, 2015 2 found photographs, 34.5 x 38.5 unique

Curriculum Vitae Trent Parke

Born 1971, Newcastle, Australia. Lives and works in Adelaide, Australia.

Member of Magnum Photo Agency, New York.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015

The Black Rose, Art Gallery of South Australia, SA, curated by Julie Robinson and Maria Zagala The Camera is God (street portrait series), Monash Gallery of Art, VIC (forthcoming)

2014

Trent Parke, Paris Photo Stills Gallery, Paris, France The Camera is God (street portrait series), Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2013

The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke’s Family Photo Album, National Gallery of Australia, ACT The Christmas Tree Bucket, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, Germany

2011

Borderlands, The Australian Embassy, Washington, USA Trent Parke: A Decade in Photography, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2009

Please step quietly everyone can hear you, Stills Gallery, Sydney & Sydney Opera House, NSW

2008

The Christmas Tree Bucket, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, NSW and then touring nationally for three years

2007

Dream/Life, Gallery Ru, Moscow, Russia Minutes to Midnight – Trent Parke, Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY, USA Coming Soon and Minutes to Midnight, Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Dream/Life & Beyond – Trent Parke, Photofusion, London, UK

2006

Trent Parke, Le Château d’eau, Toulouse, France Trent Parke - Coming Soon & Minutes to Midnight, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Trent Parke, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Chobi Mela IV, International Festival of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2005

New Work, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW Minutes to Midnight, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW and then touring nationally for three years

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Minutes to Midnight - Part One, Leica Gallery, Germany Suspended States, Sydney Arts Festival, NSW Dream/Life & Beyond, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW Sydney Treasures, Art & About. Commissioned work for AMP, Sydney, NSW

Selected Exhibitions with Narelle Autio 2013

To The Sea, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2010

Trent Parke & Narelle Autio, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2004

Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, USA FotoFreo Photographic Festival, ‘Dream/Life’ & ‘The Seventh Wave’, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, WA

2002

Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please), Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW Outback Races, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave, Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001

The Seventh Wave, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW

2000

The Seventh Wave, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

Selected Group Exhibitions 2014

2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art – Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, curated by Nick Mitzevich Episodes: Australian Photography Now - 13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Korea Prudential Eye Awards, Suntec City, Singapore Australian Vernacular Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW WILDCARDS: Bill Henson Shuffles the Deck, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC Remain in Light: Photography from the MCA Collection – an MCA touring exhibition Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC

2013

Compositions: A Musical Close Up, with Tyron Parke and the Adelaide Art Orchestra, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide, SA Beasts, Paris Photo, France Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Gallery, NSW Under My Skin: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Pat Corrigan Collection, Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD Holiday & Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW

Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour, Somerset House, The Courtalud Institute of Art, London, UK Sexualising the City: Imaging Desire and the Gold Coast Identity, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD Night Visions, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW Deep Space: New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA Magnum Contacts, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2012

2011

Photoquai: 3rd Biennial Exhibition of World Images, The Australia Embassy, Paris, France

2009

China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China Spectrum, Light in Winter Festival, ACGA Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Wheels on Fire, Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW thirteen, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2008

Streets of Gold, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD Paris Photo, France Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC Sydney Life, Hyde Park, Sydney, NSW

Sydney Now, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT Grounded: Art, Activism, Environment, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW Art Cologne 2007, Cologne, Germany Moving Still, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Human, Hous Projects, New York, USA New Blood – Magnum 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW and Magnum Print Room, London, UK

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2005

Shoot: Five Australian Photographers in Focus, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC Group Show, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW Format06, Derby Photography Festival, UK So Now Then, Hereford Photography Festival, UK Earth Cry, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, NSW Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Melbourne, VIC Art Cologne 2006, Cologne, Germany

Art Cologne 05, Germany Paris Photo, France Traces and Omens, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands ABN AMRO 2005 Emerging Artist Award, ABN Amro Tower, Sydney, NSW This Urban World, Devonport Regional Gallery, TAS Great Escapes, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, NSW Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2004

Heavenly Creatures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC Look, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW Witness: An Exhibition of Australian Photojournalism, a Monash Gallery of Art touring exhibition

2003

Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIX RePresenting the Real: Documentary Photography, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW Summer Life, ‘The Seventh Wave’, Alice Austen House Museum, New York, USA

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Numerous Magnum group exhibitions, England, Germany, France, USA

2001

World Press Photo Award / Exhibition, ‘Mercy Street’, seventy locations worldwide, including State Library of NSW, Sydney, NSW Watermarks Exhibition, Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW Leica / Centre for Contemporary Photography - Documentary Photography Exhibition & Award, Melbourne, VIC; CAS, Hobart, TAS; Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW ; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC; Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC; Lovett Gallery, Newcastle Region Library, Newcastle, NSW; Logan Art Gallery, Logan, QLD; Mildura Art Centre, Mildura, VIC Sasakawa World Sports Award / Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan Reportage, ‘Outback Races’ (with Narelle Autio)Twin Cinemas, Sydney, NSW

2000

World Press Photo Masterclass, The Netherlands Institute of Photography, The Netherlands World Press Photo Award / Exhibition ‘The Seventh Wave’, seventy locations worldwide Reportage, ‘The Seventh Wave’ (with Narelle Autio), Valhalla Cinema, Sydney, NSW Art at Work, Sydney Airport Project, NSW Thirty under Thirty up and coming photographers to watch, American Photo District News, New York, USA

1999

World Press Photo Award / Exhibition ‘Bathurst Car Races’, seventy locations worldwide On the Road, The Car in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC Leica / Centre for Contemporary Photography - Documentary Photography Exhibition & Award, Melbourne, VIC; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Logan Art Gallery, Logan, QLD; Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD; Newcastle Regional Library, NSW; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC; Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC; Shepparton Art Gallery, VIC Reportage, Valhalla Cinema, Sydney ‘Dream/Life’

Witness: An exhibition of Australian Photojournalism, ‘Outback Races’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW Art Rotterdam & Amsterdam Art Fair, The Netherlands

Selected Awards 2014

Winner, Photography, Prudential Eye Award, Signapore

2013

Winner, Olive Cotton Award, for excellence in portraiture photography, Tweed Heads Regional Gallery

2007

Full Member, Magnum Photo Agency, Magnum Foundation 60th Annual General Meeting, New York, USA Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, People’s Choice Award, Most Popular Photograph, Baker, Narrandera, NSW 2006

2006

ABN AMRO 2006 Emerging Artist Award, Motel, Pacific Highway NSW 2006

2005

World Press Photo Award, Aboriginal children, Wiluna. 3rd Prize Daily Life.

2003

W. Eugene Smith Grant/Award (USA)

2002

Associate Member, Magnum Photo Agency, New York

2001

World Press Photo Award, Roadkill Australia, 1st prize ‘Nature & The Environment Stories’ Runner-up in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Europe for The Seventh Wave The Seventh Wave awarded second prize for ‘Best Photographic Book’ in the American Pictures Of The Year Awards Selected in the Leica / CCP Documentary touring exhibition

2000

World Press Photo Award, The Seventh Wave, 2nd prize ‘Daily Life Stories’ Dream/Life awarded second prize for ‘Best Photographic Book’ in the American Pictures Of The Year Awards Canon photo essay prize in the Sasakawa World Sports Award, Japan Selected by Australian Art Collector Magazine in the ‘50 Most Collectable Artists in Australia’

1999

World Press Photo Award, Bathurst Mountain Car Races, 2nd prize ‘Daily Life Singles’ Selected to participate in the World Press Photo MasterClass in Amsterdam ‘30 Under 30 Up-and-Coming Photographers to Watch’ Selected in the Leica / CCP Documentary touring exhibition

1996, 1997, 1998

Five Gold lenses from the International Olympic Committee sports award

Collections ABN Amro collection Art Bank Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of Western Australia Australian Centre for Photography Gold Coast City Art Gallery Horsham Regional Art Gallery Magnum London Magnum Paris Monash Gallery of Art Museum of Contemporary Art National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria National Maritime Museum Tweed River Art Gallery University of Sydney Union and numerous private collections, Australia and international

Selected Bibliography Artist-initiated books The Black Rose Diaries, Steidl, Germany (forthcoming) Minutes to Midnight, Steidl, Germany, 2013 The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke’s Family Photo Album, Steidl, Germany, 2013 To The Sea, The Road Trip, Hot Chilli Press, 2013 To The Sea, The Life Saver, Hot Chilli Press, 2013 To The Sea, The Staircase to the Moon, Hot Chilli Press, 2013 To The Sea, The Beauty Queen, Hot Chilli Press, 2013 Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Little Brown Mushroom, 2010 The Seventh Wave, Hot Chilli Press, Kirribilli, 2000 Dream/Life, Hot Chilli Press, Kirribilli, 1999 Television Trent Parke: The Black Rose, ABC (filming 2012-2015), 2015‘Outback Races’ (with Narelle Autio) Trent Parke, Sunday Arts, ABC November 2008

Curriculum Vitae Patrick Pound

Born 1962, New Zealand. Based in Melbourne, Australia since 1989.

Education 20072011 19841987

PhD Art History, Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia Bachelor of Fine Arts with a double major in Art History, Auckland Univeristy, New Zealand

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015

Small world, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2014

People who look dead but (probably) aren’t, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW` re-reading: Pound at the Lenton Parr Library, Lenton Parr Library, University of Melbourne, VIC

2013

The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

2011

Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC

2010

Fehily Temporary, Melbourne, VIC Death Be Kind, Melbourne, VIC GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, NSW

2009

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2008

Artspace Mackay Regional Gallery, QLD. GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, NSW Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, NSW

2006

GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, NSW

2005

Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2004

GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, NSW

2003

Anna Bibby Gallery Auckland, New Zealand Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2002

GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, NSW Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC Herring Island, Melbourne, VIC, (with Lyndell Brown/Charles Green)

2001

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Auckland City Art Gallery, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2000

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

1999

Curtin University Gallery, Perth, WA RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW (with L.Brown/C.Green).

Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1998

Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1997

Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1996

Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1995

Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

1994

Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA Centre For Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Manawatu Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2013

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Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Selected Group Exhibitions 2015

The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Octopus 15: ‘Lost and Profound’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham Death, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW

2014

The Small Infinite, John Hansard Gallery, UK Superfictions 2, Kings ARI, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Peter Hill and Adeline Kusch Faux Novel, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Peter Hill and Annabelle Lacroix Episodes: 13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, curated by Natalie King and Young Mi Park, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Korea Ex Libris, curated by Lisa Sullivan Whistling in the Dark, Trocadero Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Dr. Michael Vale

2013

The Big Picture, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curated by Bronwyn Rennex and Josephine Skinner Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Susan Van Wyck, Maggie Finch, Max Delaney, Simon Maidment et al.

Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curated by Adam Jasper and Holly Williams Game On, Fremantle Centre for the Arts, WA, curated by Ric Spencer and Richard Lewer

2010

Present Tense, An Imagined Grammar Of Portraiture In The Digital Age, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, curated by Michael Desmond A Never Ending Story, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Chris Sharp In Which the Wind is also a Protagonist, La Générale, Sèvres, Paris, France, curated by Chris Sharp, conceived with Joanna Fiduccia

2009

Photographer Unknown, Monash University Museum of Art, VIC, curated by Dr. Kyla McFarlane someone looking at something…, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Kelly Fliedner Recycled Library: Altered books, Artspace Mackay, QLD, curated by Michael Wardell (touring Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, etc.)

2008

Order and disorder: Archives and photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Maggie Finch Under Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham Flux Capacitor, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Pilot Reboot:The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Justin Paton

2007

Perfect for every occasion: photography today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC, curated by Zara Stanhope

Rules of engagement, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Mark Feary The Space in Between, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, VIC, curated by Tara Gilbee Reboot:The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Justin Paton 2006

Truth and Likeness, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, curated by Michael Desmond Someone shows something to someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT, curated By Mark Hislop and Toni Bailey Reboot. The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Justin Paton Archiving Fever, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Emily Cormack

2005

Sensational: Sight and sound installations, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Linked–Connectivity and exchange, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, curated by Charlotte Huddleston.

Paper Moon, Devonport Regional Gallery, Towoomba Regional Gallery, QLD; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW; Maroondah Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC; Plimsoll Gallery, TAS; curated by Dr Ellie Ray Selekta, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Brett Jones and West Space

2004

2004 Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Anonda Bell, Kelly Gellatly, Charles Green, Jason Smith Cut Outs, Anna Bibby Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Gavin Hurley Minus 10 Minus 2, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Simon Rees Home and Away, The Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

2003

The Way Things Are, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, NSW, curated by Blair French and Patrick Pound OCEM, Para site, Hong Kong, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, curated Lau Kin Wah and Brett Jones Practice, Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Charlotte Huddleston

2002

Breaks, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, curated by Simon Rees.

Sanctuary 2, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Charles Green Stranger than truth, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW, curated by Peter Hill

2001

Good Work - the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, City Gallery, Wellington, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Justin Paton Home and Away – Recent acquisitions from the Chartwell Collection, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Adrift, Nomadic New Zealand Art, Conical, Melbourne, curated by Emily Cormack and Richard Lewer Phenomena New Painting In Australia:1, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne Univeristy, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Michael Wardell Multistyling Programme–Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated

by Allan Smith Leaping Boundaries, A Century Of New Zealand Artists In Australia, Mosman Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curated by Sue Gardiner Alive, Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Zara Stanhop Bright Paradise, Triennial of Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Allan Smith

2000

Art and Land, travelling to Malaysia, Thailand, Singpore, China and the Phillippines and regional Austrlian public galleries, curated by Kevin Wilson The Collected Works – going public at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery 1970-2000, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Jim Barr and Mary Barr

1999

Document, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD, curated by Kevin Wilson Who Do I Think I am, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, curated by Jim Barr, Mary Barr and Robert Leonard We Are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Volvo Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT Home and Away, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1998

List Structure, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW, curated by Charles Green Moët and Chandon Touring Exhibition, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Patterns of Intention, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

1997

Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD fascination street, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD Release, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

1995

New Works, New Directions: Recent Acquisitions by the Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton New Zealand, Text and Art, Logan Gallery, QLD, Curated by Michael Milburn Pound and Tillers, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Allan Smith Private View for the Public Good, Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Luit Bieringa Recent Sculpitecture: Horribly Desirable, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington New Zealand, curated by Jim Barr and Mary Barr

1994

Taking Stock of the `90s, The Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand Parallel Lines - Gordon Walters in Context, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated by William MacAloon Static, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Ben Curnow, Centre for Contemporary Art, A Selection, Chartwell Collection, Hamilton New Zealand Shared Pleasures, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton New Zealand Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1993

Opening Up The Book, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North New Zealand, curated by Athol McCredie After (after) McCahon refashioning the new, Cubewell House, Wellington New Zealand, curated by Jim Barr and Mary Barr Headlands: Thinking Through N.Z Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, curated by Bernice Murphy and Robert Leonard

1992

Critic’s Choice, nominated by Charles Green, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW Shadow of Style, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth and Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Greg Burke International Artists’ Books, Australian Print Workshop, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC Now See Here!, Art, Language and Translation, Napier Museum and Art Gallery, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Ian Wedde and Greg Burke

Selected Awards / Grants Australia Council, Artist’s Development Project Grants 2004, 2001, 1998, 1995, 1992 Q.E. II NZ Arts Council Grants (painting) 2004, 1990, 1987 Q.E. II NZ Arts Council Grants (video) 1988, 1987 20072010 2008

APA Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2007-10

2007

Fred Knight Scholarship, University of Melbourne

2004

Devonport Art Prize

Norman Macgeorge Scholarship (art history research fellow) University of Melbourne

Collections Art Bank Auckland City Art Gallery Christchurch Art Gallery Dunedin Public Art Gallery Govett Brewster Gallery National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria New Plymouth, Chartwell Trust N.Z. Film Archive.

The Museum of New Zealand Waikato Museum of Art and History A.N.Z.

Chapman Tripp Fletcher Challenge Pratt Industries Sweeney Vesty Pty Ltd. and numerous private collections, Australia, New Zealand and international

Curriculum Vitae Justine Varga

Born 1984, Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

Education 2007-

Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), Honours, National Art School, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions 2015

Accumulate, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2014

Sounding Silence, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Hugo Mitchell Gallery, Adelaide, SA

2012

Moving out, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW Film Object, Hugo Mitchell Gallery, Adelaide, SA

2010

29 Palms, Hugo Mitchell Gallery, Adelaide, SA

2009

Lightforms and an Empty Studio, Studio Show, Sydney, NSW

2008

Placements/Outside, Cross Art & Books, Sydney, NSW

Group Exhibitions 2015

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD Kaleidorama, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curated by Josephine Skinner, the churchie national emerging art prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD For Future Reference, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW Against a degree of blindness, MOP, Sydney, NSW, curated by Isobel Parker Phillip Some Australian Photographs, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC Sydney Contemporary, Stills Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW Slow Burn, Delmar Gallery, Trinity College, Sydney, NSW NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney, NSW (forthcoming)

2014

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD Blake Prize, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, NSW NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney, NSW, curated by Alexie Glass-Cantor the churchie national emerging art prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC Melbourne Art Fair, Stills Gallery/Hugo Michell Gallery, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC View from the Window, Edmond Pearce, Melbourne, VIC, curated by Vivian Cooper-Smith

2013

I Spy: Windows and Doors in Art, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW On the Surface of Things, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curated by Isobel Parker Philip Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney, NSW Auckland Art Fair, McNamara Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW Available Light: imagining more than we see, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD

2012

Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW Flatlands: photography and everyday space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW The Lookout: Persuasion/Formation, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, NSW Interior, Delmar Gallery, Trinity College, Sydney, NSW What Destroys What, experimental curator series, curated by N, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, NSW Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC Photographs Arranged in Series, Sutton Gallery Projects, Melbourne, VIC

2011

Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, NSW No Room to Hide, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2010

Fully Booked, Arts Project, Melbourne, VIC Silent Spaces, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, NSW Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD

Awards / Residencies 2015

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, finalist the churchie national emerging art prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, finalist Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, finalist NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), finalist (forthcoming) Bowness Photography Prize, finalist

2014

Museum of Contemporary Art Primavera Acquisitive Art Prize, winner Australia Council London Studio Residency recipient The 63rd Blake Prize, finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, finalist NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), finalist The churchie national emerging art prize, finalist Bowness Photography Prize, finalist

2013

Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, artist in residence Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, winner Godowsky Colour Awards, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston University, Bostin, USA, nomination Bowness Photography Prize, finalist Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award, Packers Prize, winner Stone Villa Studios, Sydney, artist in residence NSW Visual Arts Fellowship for Emerging Artists, finalist

2012

The 61st Blake Prize, finalist Bowness Photography Prize, finalist

2011

Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship, finalist

2010

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, finalist Infinity Awards (Young Photographer), International Centre of Photography, New York City, USA, nomination

Collections Artbank Art Gallery of New South Wales Gold Coast City Gallery Macquarie University, Sydney National Gallery of Australia Veolia

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