Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
Dec 2 2022-Feb5 2023 Pictures of You Belconnen Arts Centre Canberra
July 2022-Dec 2022 Untitled. No Name Lane Monaro St QBN Commissioned by Queanbeyan Palerang Council
September 2019 Memories Are Made Of This Canberra Contemporary Artspace Manuka
July 2018 #welcomenotwelcome Photoaccess Manuka, Canberra
March 2017 Publius Ovid shown at Chutespace- M16 Artspace Griffith, ACT
2016 August The ONE Project Creator, Curator and Exhibitor, 28 artists The Pulman Melbourne
2016 Feb-March The ONE Project Creator, Curator and Exhibitor, 28 artists. Photoaccess Manuka
2013 URBAN 25th May-16th June 2013 at The Artists Shed, Queanbeyan NSW
2009 Die Like A Dog Exhibition at The AIPP Event Adelaide SA
2009 Die Like A Dog Exhibition as part of the Head On Photographic Festival, Index Space Gallery, St Peters, Sydney.
2008 Fathers and Sons – A Pictorial Essay M16 Gallery, Fyshwick ACT
1998 The 30 Something Woman, The Street Theatre, Canberra, ACT
Collaborative Projects
2021-2022 The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition.
2022 On Thin Ice Mildura Art Gallery VIC and Griffith NSW Art Gallery May 2022
2019 On Thin Ice Tuggeranong Arts Centre and now touring
2021-2022 The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition to the Australian Government
2020 The Loud and Luminous Project // Conference March 2018, Canberra
2019 The Loud and Luminous Project // Conference March 2018, ANU Canberra School Of Art
2019 The Loud and Luminous Project // Exhibition Contact Sheet Gallery St Leonard’s NSW Featured Exhibition as part of the HeadOn Festival Sydney NSW
2018 The Loud and Luminous Project // Exhibition and Conference March 2018, Melbourne.
2016 Feb-March The ONE Project Creator, Curator and Exhibitor, 28 artists. Photoaccess Manuka and also The AIPP Event in Melbourne
2016-2015 Co-Ordinator and Photographer of 50 ACT and Southern NSW AIPP Reflections Volunteer Portraits
2001 Image Heal Thyself Co-creator, Co-Curator, Project Manager and exhibitor with With Lindi Heap. Leichhardt Street Studios, Kingston, Canberra ACT
Curation
2020-2018 The Loud and Luminous Project // Exhibition and Conference
2020 March ReGenerations Photoaccess Manuka Canberra ACT
2019 October Exposure Exhibition Project Manager, Mentor and Curator, Photoaccess Manuka ACT
2016 Feb-March The ONE Project Creator, Curator and Exhibitor, 28 artists. Photoaccess Manuka and also The AIPP Event in Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2023 MAPH Member’s Prize
2022 William & Winnifred Bowness Prize Monash Gallery Of Art, Victoria
2022 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, Brightspace St Kilda
2022 The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition Exhibition/Projection Climarte Gallery
2021 Head On Landscape prize exhibition
2019 + 2022 On Thin Ice exhibition -touring
2017 Maggie Diaz Portraiture Prize Exhibition Melbourne
2010-2017 AddOn group exhibition as part of Head On Photographic Festival, Sydney
2009 Head On Finalist Portrait Prize Exhibition
2016-1998 AIPP State awards exhibition
1998 The f64 group exhibition at Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, ACT
1998 CIT Graduation Exhibition, High Court Canberra
Recognition
2023 Finalist Australian Photography Awards- Environmental Photography
2023 Semi-finalist HeadOn Landscape Awards
2023 MAPH Look! Member’s Prize Highly Commended
2023 Finalist Perth Centre for Photography IRIS Award
2022 Having the The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition tabled to Parliament July 28th 2022
2022 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for women: WINNER
2022 William & Winnifred Bowness Prize: Shortlisted
2021 Finalist Stories-Australian Photography Awards
2021 Semi-Finalist Head On Landscape Prize
2019, 2010, 2009 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Semi-Finalist
2019 AIPP Master with 4 Gold Bars
2018 British Journal Of Photography Portrait of Humanity- The Guardian selection
2017 ACT AIPP Documentary Photographer of the Year
2017, 2001, 2000 ACT Professional Photographer Of the Year
2017 Australian AIPP Photography Book of the Year - Finalist
2017 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women - Finalist
2017 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women - People's Choice Winner
2010 HeadOn Photographic Portrait Prize Finalist
2009, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 ACT AIPP Wedding Photographer Of The Year
2019-1997 Silver Awards AIPP State and National Awards
2015, 2014, 2003 AIPP Gold Awards
2003 Master AIPP Photographer
2010, 2001, 2000 ACT AIPP Portrait Photographer Of the Year
2001, 2000 ACT Illustrative Photographer of the year
2001,2000 ACT Landscape Photographer Of the Year
Publications
The Loud and Luminous Project. Volumes 1, 2, & 3 2018-2020
The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition
Collections
The Loud and Luminous Project. Volume 1,2,& 3 2018-2020 National Library of Australia
The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition. Parliament House of Australia & National Library of Australia
Speaking Roles
2022 Refocus Retreat, Lorne Vic
2022 Mildura Arts Centre On Thin Ice Artist talk and Panel Discussion
2020 ReGenerations Artist talk Photoaccess Canberra
2020-2017 Loud and Luminous Artist talks: Melbourne, Sydney Canbe
2019-2017 Inservice and training workshops with Heartfelt, Canberra
2019 Loud and Luminous Changing the World with personal Projects Panel, Sydney
2020 ReGenerations Artist talk Photoaccess Canberra
2017 Lighthouse Innovations Talk, Canberra
2016 The One Project Artist talk
2015 Pop Up Office Events weekly at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre and The National Press Club
2015 Canberra Business Fair September 2015
2012 Hair of the Dog QLD Seminar Speaker
2011 ProPrography Seminar Melbourne Speaker
2009 Die Like a Dog Artist talk Adelaide
2005 Click Photo Seminar Series Canberra Institute Of professional Photography with Christopher Pearce, March to July
Volunteering
2011-present Heartfelt
Mentoring and Community
2022-2021 Creator of The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual petition 2019-2018 Photoaccess Tutor for the Personal Project Program
2019-2011 Photowalk Canberra: A free community photowalk run quarterly
2017-2012 AIPP Mentor and Assessor
2019-2012 Mentoring Emerging photographers through my business.
2015 Creator of The Canberra Small Business Market, Event
Memberships
2023-2020 NAVA
Boards, Committees and Representative Work
2017-1997 AIPP ACT Council member
2003-2002 AIPP National Board Co-opted Member
2011-2009, 2001-2000 AIPP ACT President
2017-2012 AIPP Mentor
2019-2012 AIPP Assessor
2019-2017 AIPP Constitution Committee, Mentoring Committee, Diversity Committee and Photography Book CAG
2019-2003 AIPP National and State Judge
2012-2010 Queanbeyan Business Chamber
Media
The tabling of the #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition The Today Show
The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual petition BBC News;
The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual petition ABC TV Australia
The Guardian Australia Gallery
The #everydayclimatecrisis Visual petition Handover
Writing
The Loud and Luminous Project
2018-2020
The Loud and Luminous Project celebrates and recognises the important and diverse contributions of contemporary women photographers and female identifying artists in Australia. It is designed to empower girls and women to pursue creative careers and it is strongly focused on gender equality in the arts. The project is unique and important in recognising the extensive cultural contribution women photographic artists and photographers have made in this country. It encourages women to tell their stories to contribute to Australia’s cultural identity. It acknowledges the importance of all stories.
While this is an Australian initiative, it has the potential to extend internationally in its message and appeal on gender equality and empowerment. It is designed to be a celebration of the important contributions the stories female artists bring to Australian culture. It is also about the ongoing battle for women to be heard—and recognised—in a traditionally male dominated industry. If the general public were asked to list influential and iconic Australian photographers from the last 100 years, it would include very few female photographers. Loud and Luminous aims to reverse this. At its core, the Loud and Luminous project is all about gender equality in the photographic arts industry.
Overwhelmingly men have written history, men have made art, galleries have collected art made by men, and until recently photographers were mostly male. The digital revolution has enabled many more people to create imagery. More women now graduate from vocational courses and art school than their male counterparts, and yet are still less likely to be represented.
The project is the brainchild of acclaimed professional photographers, Hilary Wardhaugh and Melissa Anderson. The women, who have a combined experience of 50 years working in the photographic industry, firmly believe women we need to work together to change the future and to ensure ‘all of our stories are being told’.
Loud and Luminous is designed to bring female artists together for an inclusive discussion that celebrates diversity and promotes cultural change. Some of the stories told address important social issues, and often ‘silent stories’ that many women aren’t shared or told.
The idea for the project came about on a road trip in regional Victoria in late 2017. It started as a conversation between two of Australia’s leading female photographers, Hilary Wardhaugh and Melissa Anderson, about the frustrations many women face working in the arts. The pair decided to set something up that was positive, and brought women together for a collective cause. The idea quickly evolved in to an event in Melbourne with 56 emerging, mid-career and influential Australian women photographic artists by photographing a universal women's symbol in their finished work for International Women’s Day 2018.
In 2019, the project doubled in size with the 2019 exhibition including 100 contributors—and many more supporters. More than 130 photographers attended a sold out conference on International Women’s Day at Australian National University School of the Arts, in Canberra. A multimedia presentation of the 100 exhibiting images, released at the conference, was viewed over 20,000 times within the week and shared internationally.
In 2020 the conference again was held in Canberra and although the exhibition has not been displayed because of Covid19, the 2020 book has been published and now all three volumes have now been acquired by the National Library of Australia.
The images of the 2019 Loud and Luminous Project
