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The QCP is proud to present the work of Chris Bennie, Renata Buziak, Ray Cook, Kim Demuth, Nathan Corum, Marian Drew, Paul Mumme, Liam O'Brien, Alix Perry, Lyndal Petzke, Francesca Rosa, Hugh Swingler Manning and Craig Walsh at Photo Los Angeles, 14-17 January 2010.
Chris Bennie is a photo-media artist with a Doctorate of Visual Arts degree from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. He uses video, installation, photography and painting to question the hegemony, monotony and homogenization of contemporaryexistence by exploring what is commonly experienced but overlooked. His work has been included in national and international group exhibitions, including the Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms That Turn online venue (2008); Contemporary Australia: optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); New Work 3, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2007); and Plus Factors, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006). Website
Renata Buziak has been recognized for her innovative photographic work by winning the open Theiss Art Prize 2005 and representing QCA at the Perth International Centre for Contemporary Art National exhibition of graduating students. She was an artist-in-resident at the Brisbane Botanical gardens in 2007 and her latest solo exhibition was held at the Queensland Centre for Photography this year. The QCP is currently working on a monograph on her work, this will be the first in a series of smaller monographs for mid-career and emerging Queensland photographic artists. Website
Ray Cook is one of Australia’s most influential and significant photographic artists. His practice spans 20 years and is characterized by innovative experimentation with photographic tableaux and hand-toned prints. He is currently undertaking his PhD at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where he is also lecturing. His major monograph Ray Cook – Diary of a Fortunate Man, published by QCP, launched in October 2007. Website
Nathan Corum Corum is a photo-media artist currently completing his Doctorate of Visual Arts degree at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. He is interested in the relationship between photography and cinema, and will be showing a video work at Photo LA 2010. His work is in the Daryl Hewson Collection, currently touring regional Queensland.
Kim Demuth has been a practicing artist for ten years, and has exhibited extensively in Australia including a solo show at the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) in 2003. He received an Australia Council Grant for the Barcelona Residency in 2005 and has been the recipient of several Arts Queensland and Australia Council grants. He works in mixed media, and will be showcasing his sculptural photographic works at Photo LA 2009. Much of Demuth’s work deals with silence and isolation, often through humour, optical illusion and surreal imagery. Demuth’s works were exhibited at Photo LA 2008. Website
Marian Drew is the most successful Queensland photographic artist resident in our state. Her monograph Marian Drew – photographs + video works was published by the QCP in 2006. She has exhibited in Germany, China, the USA, and New Zealand. Her works are held in the most prestigious collections in the country and she is well known for her large-scale commissions in the city of Brisbane. She is the head of photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Website
Paul Mumme is a photo-media artist with a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours degree from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His work deals with paradox, irony and subversion of logic through the superfluous alteration, binding and illogical use of functional objects. Encompassing video, photography and object-based works he intends to uncover the somewhat ridiculous aspects of behaviour. Website
Liam O’Brien is an emerging photographic artist, currently finishing his Bachelor of Photography degree at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His work explores the alienation of males in contemporary society through staged photographs. Website
Alix Perry is an emerging photographic artist with a Bachelor of Photography from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is in the collections of Daryl Hewson, QCP and other private collections. She explores the ideas of ‘becoming’ - of youth, alienation and the passing into another state. She is interested in photography as a traditional vessel of memories and it’s potential to extend this by transforming photographs into objects. Website
Lyndal Petzke is an emerging photographic artist, recently graduated from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is in the collections of Daryl Hewson, QCP and Loreta High School. She is interested in the cultural and ideological identities found within everyday objects and explores the crossing of boundaries between sculpture and photography by creating objects within the digital realm. Website
Francesca Rosa is an emerging photographic artist, who has had solo exhibitions at the QCP and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Her works have been collected by The Queensland Art Gallery and is in the Daryl Hewson and QCP’s collection. Her practice is influenced by the history of photography as a form of investigation, evidence and categorization. Addressing concepts of the forensic aesthetic, Rosa’s focus is visual aftermath of the abandoned, decayed and destroyed. Website
Hugh Swingler Manning is an emerging photographic artist, currently finishing his Bachelor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His work is in the collections of Daryl Hewson, QCP and other private collections. His explores the relationships between vernacular photography, memory and personal mythologies. The images are dioramas of Greek myths, each including elements constructed from snapshot photographs of subject matter such as friends, family and lovers, where the narrative surrounding the vernacular image’s characters can be related to the narrative of the myth. Website
Craig Walsh is an established video artist. Primarily interested in hybrid / site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art, his work often utilizes projection in response to existing environments and contexts. He has been working across a range of artforms including theatre, architecture, public works, gallery exhibitions and festivals. His work has been selected for major survey exhibitions, commissions and residencies both nationally and internationally, including; the Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan. Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. Under the radar, Liverpool, England. The National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Havana Biennale, Cuba, Experimenta Vanishing Point, Melbourne; the Anne Landa Award, AGNSW, Sydney; the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, AGSA, Adelaide. 2004: Australian culture now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Institute of Modern Art Brisbane and Ssamsie space, Seoul, Korea. Website
The QCP gratefully acknowledge the support of the Queensland Government through the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Arts Queensland and Griffith University for this project.
For more information about Photo Los Angeles 2010 visit their official website.
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The QCP is proud to present the work of Paul Adair, Camilla Birkeland, Renata Buziak, Ray Cook, Nathan Corum, Marian Drew, Siegfried Manietta, Bruce Reynolds and Julie Stephenson at Photo Los Angeles, 9-11 January 2009.
Paul Adair is a highly successful emerging artist whose photographic work relates directly to the West Coast visual language and questions the relationship of reality versus illusion. Since his attendance at Photo LA Los Angeles in 2007 he has gained representation by the largest photographic gallery in Australia (Stills Gallery, Sydney).
Camilla Birkeland has been a practicing artist for the past ten years. Her work deals with the sublime and her work is characterised by sculptural constructions where the sense of scale is challenged by the fictional spaces she creates. She holds a Masters of Visual Arts from Griffith University. Website
Renata Buziak has been recognized for her innovative photographic work by winning the open Theiss Art Prize 2005 and representing QCA at the Perth International Centre for Contemporary Art National exhibition of graduating students. She was an artist-in-resident at the Brisbane Botanical gardens in 2007 and her latest exhibition was held at the Brisbane Square Council Library. Website
Ray Cook is one of Australia’s most influential and significant photographic artists. His practice spans 20 years and is characterized by innovative experimentation with photographic tableaux and hand-toned prints. He is currently undertaking his PhD at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where he is also lecturing. His major monograph Ray Cook – Diary of a Fortunate Man, published by QCP, launched in October 2007. Website
Nathan Corum is a highly successful emerging artist, who has exhibited in Australia and Norway. His photographic art practice revolves around the relationship between cinema and photography. He is currently undertaking his PhD at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where he is also lecturing.
Marian Drew is the most successful Queensland photographic artist resident in our state. Her monograph Marian Drew – photographs + video works was published by the QCP in 2006. She has exhibited in Germany, China, the USA, and New Zealand. Her works are held in the most prestigious collections in the country and she is well known for her large-scale commissions in the city of Brisbane. She is the head of photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Website
Rose Farrell and George Parkin live and work in Melbourne, Australia. They have collaborated together for more than twenty years and are widely known for their photographic tableaux photography exploring the history of medicine. They have exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. Website
Siegfried Manietta is an established photographer with 20 years of experience. His works deal with environmental issues by bringing attention to the topology of the country and its use. He is mentored many generations of graduates through his lectures at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Bruce Reynolds is an established artist, known for his photographic and sculptural works as well as numerous public commissions in Australia and in Singapore. The works to be presented at Photo Los Angeles are photographic images applied onto linoleum assemblages (collages) once part of Australian households witch the artists rescues from derelict or abandoned buildings. These materials are a container of everyday memories that the artists uses as a background to investigate urban landscapes thus bringing together the domestic/interior and the landscape/exterior, questioning the creation of the urban space and the forces shaping everyday life. Website
Julie Stephenson is a successful emerging artist dealing with meditational images based on the shifting nature of water. She has been exhibiting nationally for the past four years. Website
The QCP gratefully acknowledge the support of the Queensland Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry, Griffith University and Arts Queensland for this project.
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The QCP is proud to present the work of Ray Cook, Kim Demuth, Deb Mansfield and Bruce Reynolds at Photo Los Angeles, 10-13 January 2008.
Ray Cook is one of Australia's most influential and significant photographic artists. His practice spans 20 years and is characterized by innovative experimentation with photographic tableaux and hand-toned prints. Cook is currently undertaking his doctorate at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia, where he is also lecturing. His major monograph Ray Cook: Diary of a Fortunate Man, published by the QCP launched in October 2007.
Kim Demuth has been a practicing artist for ten years, and has exhibited extensively in Australia including a solo show at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in 2003. He received an Australia Council Grant for the Barcelona Residency in 2005. He has produced three public commissions in Queensland, and has been the recipient of several Arts Queensland and Australia Council grants. He works in mixed media, and is showcasing his sculptural photographic works at Photo LA 2008. Much of Demuth's work deals with silence and isolation, often through humour and surreal imagery.
Deb Mansfield has been a practicing artist for five years and has an extensive exhibition history in Australia, including two exhibitions at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. She has produced several public art commissions in Queensland, and was a recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant in 2004, and of the 2006 Siganto Scholarship (Artworkers Alliance). Her work deals with the littoral and the relationship between the exotic and the domestic - the intimate space. Mansfield works with different photographic materials, from sculptural installations of large-scale photographs to hand-printed palladium prints.
Bruce Reynolds is an established Australian artists, known for his photographic and sculptural works as well as numerous public commissions in Australia and in Singapore. The works presented at Phpto LA 2008 are photographic images applied onto linoleum assemblages (collages) once part of Australian households which the artist rescues from derelict or abandoned buildings. These materials are a container of everyday memories that Reynolds uses as a background to investigate urban landscapes, thus bringing together the domestic/interior and the landscape/exterior, questioning the creation of the urban space and the forces shaping everyday life.
The QCP gratefully acknowledge the support of the Queensland Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry, Griffith University and Arts Queensland for this project.
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The QCP announces its new partnership with Hous projects in New York.
To celebrate the opening of the Gallery and the partnership with the QCP the director Elizabeth Houston has curated an exhibition titled "Human" to be opened on the the 6th of September from 6-8pm. The exhibition includes works by Narelle Autio, Pat Brassington, Marian Drew, Trent Parke, Charles Robb, Martin Smith and Michael Zavros.
This partnership with a commercial gallery in New York is a major effort on behalf of Queensland and Australian artists by the QCP to open new markets for their works.
Please feel free to invite friends and colleagues based in the USA to support the Artists.
The second exhibition schedule is a solo show by Marian Drew to be opened 17th of October and a list of exhibitions for the latter part of the year will be available in our web-site at a later date.
Hous Projects
31 Howard street, floor 2
New York, NY 10013www.housprojects.com
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The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) will be touring Central Europe in the month of July 2006 as part of an invitation to participate in the Dom Fotographie 11th International Photo Summer School and Festival in the Republic of Slovakia.
This invitation was brokered by Anna Grega, originally from Brisbane, and now a Sydney-based independent arts consultant. Anna has been working in Central and Eastern Europe (C/EE) each European summer since 2001 as part of a long-term C/EE market development strategy for Australian arts and cultural investment.
This trip will hope to engage and develop new partnerships to foster the exchange of artistic talent between Australia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria.
The Director of the institution Mr Maurice Ortega and a member of the Management Board Ms Renata Buziak will be meeting with galleries, curators, artists and Ministry of Culture representatives in an effort to develop a systematic dialogue between cultural institutions in these countries and Australia.
Maurice Ortega as the director of the Queensland Centre for Photography, the Queensland Festival of Photography and Lecturer at Griffith University will be looking for partnerships in the areas of exhibition exchange and educational dialogue. He will also be developing links to create a pool of speakers for seminars and conferences as part of the future plans for the Queensland Festival of Photography.The Queensland Centre for Photography is a non-profit organization that facilitates connections between audience and art practitioners. Through exhibitions, educational programs, publications and a collection, the QCP aims to increase opportunities for art dialogue in a friendly all-inclusive environment. The Centre also provides professional support and advice for the Queensland photographic art community.
“As the first foray into the C/EE market, I believe that Queensland Centre for Photography is an excellent match given its strong audience and artist development philosophy and impressive achievements to date. I am delighted to have played a part to kick-start the dialogue that will hopefully build artistic bridges and a lasting legacy for C/EE and Australia communities,” Anna says.
Maurice Ortega and Renata Buziak recieved support from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's Proffessional Development grant.