Centre for Contemporary Photography

Launching this November at - the first monograph by Australian-German photographer Katrin Koenning !
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‘between the skin and sea’, is published by , and is available for pre-order via their website now👏 📷📚
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Katrin first showed her work at the in 2016, and since then has been included in exhibitions around Australia & internationally. She won the Bowness Photography Prize at the in 2019, and was featured in Melbourne Now 2023 at .
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Can’t wait to see this amazing book!
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Curator appreciation post! 👏📷
In what looks like her last activity as CCP Curator Catlin Langford is currently in Landskrona giving gallery talks & portfolio reviews, at ‘Mother Country’ - the exhibition we presented in early 2023, curated by Catlin - is now being presented as part of this fantastic Swedish photo festival.
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As CCP followers will know recent funding cuts by & .australia meant we had to take the horrible decision to let both Catlin, and Gallery Manager Tyler Meredith go a few weeks ago.
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In addition this exhibition features 4 Australian artists .charlie68 .sorgini and following multiple unsuccessful grant applications, this exhibition went ahead with NO Australian federal or state support, and was paid for entirely by (thanks ).
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What’s more, Catlin’s trip to install and open the exhibition was also not successful in receiving funding from .australia & , so she opted instead to pay for her own return trip to Sweden, as did two of the artists!
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This celebration of 4 amazing women artists featuring at an international event received no Australian funding!
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Big thanks to Catlin for her commitment to the artists she worked with for so long on this exhibition, both in Australia and in Sweden.
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Meanwhile in Sweden, ’s exhibition ‘Mother Country’ featuring 4 Australian artists Ying Ang, Miriam Charlie, Odette England & Lisa Sorgini - has opened at Festival.

Curated by Catlin Langford, ‘Mother Country’ is an exploration of place, family, care and mothering. Their images respond to recent personal and collective experiences, framed by the society, history, and unique landscape of Australia. While concentrating on intimate moments of tenderness, touch and connection, they confront wider concepts around the unseen or unacknowledged experiences of women, girls and mothers.

Thanks to support from Catlin is in Sweden along with some the artists and will be taking part in public programs.

Thanks to team for being so wonderful to work with!
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We received a lovely message from Pixy Liao - who exhibited with us in 2023.
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“I’m so sad to hear that CCP will no longer exist at its longtime location at 404 George St. As I still remember my solo show at that location just one year ago. It was one of my largest solo shows at an institution in my career … It was a dream come true for me to have my solo show at CCP in 2023.

I remembered on the day of the opening, Moro & I were greeted with a memorable Welcome to Country ceremony. There were so many people coming to see my show and our performance. The gallery was packed!

I got to know some young photographers through portfolio reviews organized by CCP & on my opening day, I got to know more artists or people interested in photography in Melbourne.

Everyone was so enthusiastic and welcoming. I thought to myself, Australian people are so lucky with a government that supports non-profit art organizations. And the people working at CCP, Daniel, Catlin, Sophia, Tyler.... Everyone was working their best to make CCP a wonderful hub for people in Melbourne. Everything was working so well, until...

I’m thinking of everyone at CCP. I hope one day CCP can come back, bigger and stronger. You will always have my support!”
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Thank you Pixy ❤️📷
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Pixy’s exhibition in early 2023 was supported by HCPro .wines and many others!

As we sort through 20 years of ideas, conversations, exhibitions, and projects in our George St building we are again asking for
our community to share stories of CCP - their school visit, their first workshop, their work on the wall for the first time ever in the Summer Salon, the community, the support, the learning and connections made!!! The impact of the CCP!
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Please send us a short DM or email with your memories of CCP, the importance it’s had in your life, the impact the CCP has had on your career, and the life-changing moments! You can email to - [email protected].
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Having these important moments recorded will allow us use these stories to demonstrate the importance of this organisation going forward, to government, to councils, to partners and to donors.

All stories welcome, no matter how long or short, and no matter how seemingly small or big; we know a life, a career, personal & professional growth, can hinge on one experience, one encounter or a single moment where everything made sense!!! CCP has always been about community, we need your help to record that.

Please send via - DM or [email protected]

(We will request your permission before sharing any publicly)
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Twenty years ago, in 2004, then CCP Curator Daniel Palmer () visited the new site for the organisation, an empty brick shell on the corner of George & Kerr Sts. He took a photo as he walked around, which then became a postcard used to promote the new location - soon to be transformed with a brand new fit-out and interior designed by Sean Godsell Architects.
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Today Daniel visited CCP at our current location for the last time, and took this photo.
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LOOKING BACK AT THE FIRST DAYS OF THE

As we go through our archives in preparation to depart our current building we thought we’d share this A2 poster (found by ) from 1986 announcing The Victorian Centre for Photography (our original name); and that “Victoria is on its way to having its own Photography Centre”, with the establishment of a committee to seek a permanent building.

A little piece of printed history from the very moment of inception of the CCP.

Sadly we are still in the same position of “seeking a permanent building” nearly 40 years later!!! Established with Victorian Government support and decades of capital and project investment from different subsequent State Governments we now no longer receive any support from them! 😢

At the time the “Victorian Ministry for the Arts supported the formation … funding a feasibility study … and a consultant” for a Centre that would “stimulate interest and a more diverse range of photographic activity”.

The Victorian Centre for Photography committee in 1986 that established what would later become the was :
Bernie O’Regan
Henry Von Bibra
Christine Abrahams
Nanette Carter
John Cato
John Gollings
Carolyn Lewens
Norbert Loeffler
Ruth Maddison
Tony Perry
Les Walkling
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🪧 Swipe right for close ups of the poster and text, artists featured on the poster: JW Lindt, Geoff Strong, Wolfgang Sievers, Seham Abi Elias, Carol Jerrems.
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Poster copy/scan by
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🏛️ Following the recent news of our departure from our Fitzroy home of 20 years, we are pleased that CCP will continue - with the help of Donors, Partners, Supporters, Charitable Foundations and our community. In October 2024 CCP will open a Project Space in Collingwood Yards
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More news of events & exhibitions to follow 🙏❤️📷

with edited photos as doesn’t like Carol Jerrems

A giant in photography falls – for now The Centre for Contemporary Photography has laid off staff and will vacate its existing premises at the end of this month.

We have been overwhelmed by the supportive of the photo & art community over the past 24 hrs, both in Melbourne, Victoria, nationally and internationally.
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In particular we have been surprised by the 1000s of people sharing stories & comments of CCP - their first visit, their first workshop, their work in the wall for the first time ever in the Summer Salon, the community, the support, the learning and connections made!!!
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We would love to capture this somehow, so are asking our community to send us a short DM with their memories of CCP, the importance it’s had in their lives, the impact the CCO has had on their careers, and the life-changing moments! You can also email to - [email protected].
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Having these important intents recorded will allow us use these stories to demonstrate the importance of this organisation going forward.

Please share your story, no matter how long or short, and no matter how seemingly small or big, we know a life, a career, growth, can hinge on one experience, one encounter or a single moment where everything made sense!!!
Please share your CCP stories with us - DM or [email protected]

(We will request your permission before sharing any publicly)
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Following the announcement, and the need for us to vacate the building at the end of August - we are holding a Moving Out Sale, today from 12-4pm.
Exhibition material going back to the 80s, catalogues, publications, posters, flyers & also plinths, tables, chairs, frames, electronic equipment, screens, media players, etc.
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Thanks for the incredible outpouring of support and love. The Board, Staff & Volunteers are so sad to be managing this process, but CCP isn’t going away, just changing and adapting the situation we’ve been put in my the State & Federal funding bodies. We are also optimistic of bigger & better things to come.
Love you all - please continue to support us anyway you can #🖤📷

Announcement -
CCP to establish new vision following State and Federal funding cuts.

As featured in today, and in our e-newsletter, and on our website.
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We are incredibly sad to announce that the Centre for Contemporary Photography will be forced to vacate its home of nearly 20 years at 404 George St, Fitzroy - this news comes after the withdrawal of multi-year funding by both Creative Australia and Creative Victoria over recent months and years.

The CCP will host no further exhibitions at the current premises, and will move out at the end of August 2023.

This decision by the Federal and State funding bodies to turn their backs on CCP comes despite 2023 showing impressive improvements in visitor numbers, community and education events, public engagement, partnerships, impact, and self-generated income.

The decisions taken by these Federal and State funding bodies have also directly resulted in the loss of jobs at CCP, sadly our Gallery Manager Tyler Meredith and Curator Catlin Langford have recently departed due to a lack of funds to retain them.

Over the past 38 years the CCP has had a significant history and track record of launching the careers of photo artists, creatives, curators, and gallery directors across Australia and the world. Our influence spreads far and wide and the CCP is a key organisation devoted the supporting our creative community young and old.

We still believe the CCP plays a pivotal role in the celebration of lens-based arts by providing accessible educational programs, diverse exhibition opportunities, and unique commissioned creative projects, and despite this set back we will continue to fight to create a place in Melbourne to advocate for photography, and for the importance of photographic storytelling in our culture and society.

Further announcements on programming & future plans will follow.

A beautiful tribute/obituary for Destiny Deacon in todays - written by Daniel Browning 👏❤️

Over the years Destiny was involved with and supported CCP in many meaningful ways - she is much missed. 🖤

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Looking back at the 1997 Leica x CCP Documentary Award publication.

Images by & 📷❤️

The publication also includes a beautiful text by Helen Frajman (.33_melbourne) that ends with these words -

“Right now, while many artists are grappling with new ways of talking, some still want to express something by ‘looking’ at what most of us still call the real world. Some amount these ‘documentary’ artists continue to produce works of depth and power - their photographs attest to an eloquent talent. Many people come in large numbers to see these photographs when they are exhibited. They find meanings in them. They are moved. They would like to see more. These are old tongues that are being spoken. So what?
Documentary photography can’t save us. Nor would any but the most naive of its practitioners see that as their role, but in times where increasingly our cultural and social formations rend us from one another, surely that which communicates should be encouraged to speak.”

The 1997 Leica x CCP finalists were Marco Bok, Steven Siewert, Joe Castro, Nina Landis, Russell Shakespeare, C. Moore Hardy, Michael Amendolia, Peter Milne, Jo Grant, Tania Jovanovic, Simon O’Dwyer, Wayne Heeley, Mathias Heng, David Dare Parker, Liz Ham, Max Pam, Philip Castle, Matthew Sleeth, Anne Zahalka.
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The selection panel was Emmanuel Santos, Sandy Edwards & Susan van Wyk.
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is delighted to be partnering with in Sweden to present the exhibition ‘Mother Country’, featuring the work of .charlie68 & .sorgini, curated by
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The exhibition program for the 9th edition of Landskrona Foto Festival 6-22 September is officially open to explore!

In this year’s festival, a diversity of stories with unique and strong artistic expressions is presented. The works are deliberately placed in relation to Landskrona’s unique environments and buildings.

📷 18 photography exhibitions
8 exhibition venues
9 large-scale outdoor exhibitions
24 + artists

The ticket and exhibition program are already available online!

Read more about the exhibitions https://www.landskronafoto.org/en/exhibitions-festival-2024/

MAP to the exhibitions: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1RC1G-9mXP_eui6N42fhnPPRMs5Ovbe0&usp=sharing

EXHIBITIONS BY:
Greta Alfaro / Ying Ang / Thierry Ardouin / Chloé Milos Azzopardi / Shiraz Bayjoo / Alfredo Blasquez / Miriam Charlie / Odette England / Federico Estol / Lin Wei Lun / Nicolai Howalt / Joy Gregory / Mehdi-Georges Lahlou / Donja Nasseri / Miki Nitadori / Yvon Ngassam / Giovanna Petrocchi / Chuxun Ran / Sofia Runarsdotter / Emma Sarpaniemi / Pacifico Silano / Lisa Sorgini / Clare Strand / Leonard Suryajaya / Charlotte Yonga /

📷 The festival poster image is by Charlotte Yonga from the series Naam Na La
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WINNER 🏆
Big congrats to who was the lucky winner of the Tony Albert raffle!!!

Brittany came along today to collect her newest prized possession!!! 📷

It’s fair to Brittany was shocked at the news, she said “I’ve never won anything before in my life!!!”

Thanks to everyone who bought tickets we raised $2000 in this raffle. Thanks also to the very generous & his gallery ❤️🙏
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Available as part of our Online Print Sale - - until the end of July.

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Edition of 20; 8 x 10 inch; Unframed print on Hanhnemühle Photo Rag Baryta; Printed by Final Grade Printing
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Clare Rae,
Untitled (Self Portrait in the Life Drawing Studio) from the series Untitled Actions (RMIT), 2019

AUS $250.00
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Thanks to our partners 📷❤️👏

Available as part of our Online Print Sale - - until the end of July.

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Edition of 20; 8 x 10 inch; Unframed print on Hanhnemühle Photo Rag Baryta; Printed by Final Grade Printing
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Ponch Hawkes,
The Waiters Race, 1988

AUS $250.00
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Thanks to our partners 📷❤️👏

Available as part of our Online Print Sale - - until the end of July.

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Edition of 20; 8 x 10 inch; Unframed print on Hanhnemühle Photo Rag Baryta; Printed by Final Grade Printing
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Adam Ferguson,
‘Leon ‘Poggy’ Kloock impersonates Ned Kelly on his 4th generation family farm, Coorabie Farm, Wirangu Country, South Australia’ 2018.

AUS $250.00
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Available as part of our Online Print Sale - - until the end of July.
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Edition of 20; 8 x 10 inch; Unframed print on Hanhnemühle Photo Rag Baryta; Printed by Final Grade Printing
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Zoë Croggon, For Michiko Yamawaki, 2019
$250.00
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Only 2 more days to bid for an amazing photographic work in our silent auction!

Bidding online closes 2pm tomorrow !!! July 13th

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Lisa Sorgini
Don’t Cry from the series In Passing, 2015-2023
62.5 x 42.5 cm
Edition of 5, Framed
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Silent Auction Reserve - $1500

Printed by on Photo Rag Baryta paper, provided by . Framed by
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Exhibition open til tomorrow 5pm

Only 3 more days to bid for an amazing photographic work in our silent auction!

Bidding online closes 2pm July 13th - this Saturday!!!

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Trent Parke
Mount Pandemonium, 1998
54.5 x 64.5 cm
Edition of 5, Framed
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Silent Auction Reserve - $3,300

Printed by on Photo Rag Baryta paper, provided by . Framed by
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Exhibition open til Saturday 5pm

HAHNEMÜHLE IN STOCK!

We are very proud to now be stocking a range of in the shop. Thanks to Spicers Australia.

Stop by and pick up a box of A3 or A4 paper - H**p, German Etching, Photo-Rag, Fine Art Baryta.

We’ve also got some swatches and samples.

Come take a look.

All the work for our 2024 Print Fundraiser has been printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Paper - by master printer Peter Hatzipavlis.

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FUNDRAISER EXHIBITION - SNEAK PEEK No.18⭐️
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Framed Limited Edition artwork by Lisa Sorgini - only one available.sorgini

Open now! Presenting 20 framed works by 20 different artists for our 2024 Fundraising Exhibition.
All works will be on display at & will be sold via Silent Auction on our website. Only one of each work is available. All money raised will go directly to supporting CCP.

Online bidding is now open!

📷: Lisa Sorgini
Don’t Cry from the series In Passing, 2024 59 x 42 cm, Edition of 5, Framed. Printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta.

Silent Auction starting bid - AUS$1500
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In-Passing’ began in 2015, the year Lisa Sorgini became a mother to her first child, and then shortly after suffered the loss of her own mother to illness. At first, the series provided a therapeutic outlet for a new reality that didn’t feel like her own, which she described as ‘Two new identities, mother and motherless.’ These events provide the inception for what has since become a long-running commentary, a visceral account of the chaos and intimacy of the familial space during her children’s formative years.
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Thanks to our wonderful supporters , paper, supplied by .
Framing by .
Thanks to all the artists who have offered and donated works to this event 🙏❤️.
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Sorgini is an Italian-Australian artist, born in Adelaide. She has exhibited at and Ragusa in Italy, and in Australia. In 2022 she released her first book, ‘Behind Glass’ (), and was commissioned to produce new work for 2022. She has shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (UK), National Portrait Prize , awards, awards, Portrait of Humanity and Australian photography awards. Her work has been published extensively worldwide, with notable profiles in , & .
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FUNDRAISER EXHIBITION - works available No.17⭐️
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Framed Limited Edition artwork by Nikki Lam - only one available.


Open now! We are presenting 20 framed works by 20 different artists in our 2024 Fundraising Exhibition. All works will be on display at & will be sold via Silent Auction on our website. Only one of each work is available. All money raised will go directly to supporting CCP.

Online bidding is now open!

📷: Nikki Lam
The Unshakable Destiny: Reprise, 2023, 37 x 63 cm, Edition of 10, Framed.

Silent Auction starting bid - AUS$800
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Nikki Lam is interested in the complexity and multiplicity of migratory expressions: its tensions, fragmentation, poetic threads of personal and collective histories. This work is drawn from the second chapter in ‘The Unshakable Destiny’, a modular trilogy about grief and memory, and the position of the artist during socio-political transitions. Lam asks, ‘As Hong Kong transforms its resistance from political to personal, how do our image shift over time?’ The trilogy is the artist’s contemplation on time, protest and cinema and an attempt to speculate a different future through subjective and collective memories.
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Thanks to our wonderful supporters , paper, supplied by .
Framing by .
Thanks to all the artists who have offered and donated works to this event 🙏❤️.
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Lam is an artist-curator and filmmaker based in Narrm (Melbourne, Australia). Lam’s work has been shown widely across Australia and internationally, including as part of ‘Primavera: Australian Young Artists 2023’ at the in Sydney, Melbourne Now (2023) at , ‘Only the future revisits the past’ (2024) at , the , , , , .melbourne, Itoshima Art Farm International Arts Festival in Japan and Pier 2 Art Center in Taiwan.

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FUNDRAISER EXHIBITION - SNEAK PEEK No.15⭐️
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Framed Limited Edition artwork by James Tylor - only one available.


Opening Friday June 28th we will be presenting 20 framed works by 20 different artists in our 2024 Fundraising Exhibition. All works will be on display at & will be sold via Silent Auction on our website. Only one of each work is available. All money raised will go directly to supporting CCP.

Opening tonight - Friday 28th June 6pm.

Online bidding will start today 11am Friday 28th June.

📷: James Tylor
Aotearoa my Hawaiki #6, 2015 50 x 50 cm, Edition of 5, Framed, Printed on Hahnemühle.

Silent Auction starting bid - AUS$1800
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This series explores the Polynesian Māori concept of Hawaiki. Hawaiki is the ancestral homeland and/or island where Māori people came from before migrating to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Of this work, James Tylor has said: ‘For New Zealand Māori people, the actual physical place of Hawaiki is ‘Avaiki Nui (The Cook Islands). As an Australian of Māori descent, I have always had an ideological connection to Aotearoa, because it is the place where my Māori ancestors came from before migrating to Australia. As a Māori Australian, my Hawaiki or ancestral homeland is Aotearoa … This series represents my ideological connection to Aotearoa through my New Zealand Māori ancestry. However, it also highlights my disconnection from the physical place or landscape of New Zealand because my Māori family migrated to Australia so many generations ago.’
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Thanks to our wonderful supporters , paper, supplied by .
Framing by .
Thanks to all the artists who have offered and donated works to this event 🙏❤️.
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James is an Australian multi-disciplinary contemporary visual artist. He was born in Mildura, Victoria. His work is held in national and international collections, including the .adelaide and .
He is represented by .smithgallery and .

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FUNDRAISER EXHIBITION - SNEAK PEEK No.14⭐️
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Framed Limited Edition artwork by Ruth Maddison - only one available.
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Opening Friday June 28th we will be presenting 20 framed works by 20 different artists in our 2024 Fundraising Exhibition. All works will be on display at & will be sold via Silent Auction on our website. Only one of each work is available. All money raised will go directly to supporting CCP.

Opening night - Friday 28th June 6pm.

Online bidding will start Friday 28th June.

📷: Ruth Maddison
From the series ‘There is a time’, 2008, 42 x 62 cm, Edition of 8, Framed. Printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta.

Silent Auction starting bid - AUS$1500
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This photograph was taken by Ruth Maddison on the Monaro plain – the road that links Eden/Yuin country, where she lives, to Canberra/Ngunnawal country.
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Thanks to our wonderful supporters , paper, supplied by .
Framing by .
Thanks to all the artists who have offered and donated works to this event 🙏❤️.
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Maddison began taking photographs in the mid-1970s and exhibited her ‘Christmas Holiday with Bob’s Family’ – a series of hand-coloured, snapshot-style images mimicking scenes from a family photo album – at Ewing Gallery in Melbourne in 1979. Since then, she has held many solo exhibitions at venues such as the .photo; ; the ; and the ; and has been included in numerous group shows at national, state and regional galleries, including Reveries: photography and mortality at the NPG in 2007. Maddison has been commissioned to produce work for media, government and community organisations, and has won a number of grants and awards such as the Hobart City Art Prize (2007) and the Josephine Ulrick National Photography Prize for Portraiture (2002). Maddison’s work is represented in major public collections including the , , , the National Library and the and as well as university, corporate and private collections.