ALONG THE RIVER

“Along the River’ opens on Friday 12 January 2024 at AIRSPACE PROJECTS Marrickville.

The group show of photographs includes images taken along the Cooks River by a group of artists with disabilities using a variety of different processes and mediums.

Fieldwork Grace Cossington Smith gallery

I have works in the upcoming Fieldwork exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney from 6 October – 4 November

Fieldwork brings together artists whose works critically engage with ecology, materiality, and temporality through photo-graphic media. The exhibition seeks to foster ecological thinking and draw attention to the dynamic vitality, rhythms, interactions, and language of multi-species environments.


Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize

I have works in the 2023 Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize from 23 Aug — 13 Oct 2023 at Huw Davies Gallery. The prize is “a competition celebrating emerging and established talents in the field of photo media.” https://www.photoaccess.org.au

VIEW CAMERA AUSTRALIA ARTICLE

View Camera Australia has done a nice story on my “Reconstructed Landscapes” series. The site features news about large format camera artworks and photographers using darkrooms to make photographs across Australia.

https://viewcameraaustralia.org/2023/02/02/folio-emilio-cresciani/

CCP SALON

It was great to be part of the Centre of Contemporary Photography Melbourne exhibition “Summer Salon” 30th Anniversary.

The salon exhibition is a survey of contemporary photography in Australia, presented in a ‘floor-to-ceiling’ hang.


INNER WEST COUNCIL ART GRANT

I received an Inner West Council Arts Projects Grant for a Cooks River photowalk project this year with Aroha Smith.

Looking forward to exploring this diverse waterway with artists with a disability. We’ll learn about the history and ecology of the river with experts and Indigenous elders. And stage an insitu exhibition of the works.

FINALIST HEYSEN ART PRIZE

I’m honoured to be a finalist in the 2022 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

The contemporary art prize invites artists to express their connection to landscape and place, concern for protecting the environment, and pay homage to Hans Heysen as an environmentalist.

Exhibition: 19 November 2022 – 22 January 2023, Hahndorf Academy, South Australia

http://hahndorfacademy.org.au/heysen-prize

M16 SHOW OPENS

It was a great night at the opening of “Reconstructed Landscapes” at M16 ART SPACE in Canberra.

On display until 4th September.

M16 SOLO SHOW

My RECONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES will be on display at M16 in Canberra from Friday 18 August - Sunday 4 September.

Opening Thursday 18 August 6 - 8 pm

The works explore the deforestation of our national parks.

ARTIST TALK PCP

I’ll be part of a closing artist talk at PCP - with the other artists on show TRES and Johannes Reinhart. Saturday, 2 July 2022 @ 11 am - 12 pm AWST [1 pm Sydney time].

Join On Zoom: Meeting ID: 816 1238 5243 Passcode: 715469

PCP OPENING

It was great to be at the opening of my six-week solo show at Perth Centre for Photography.

Runs until 2 July 2022.



SOLO PERTH CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

I’m very excited to be having a six week solo show at the Perth Centre for Photography 21 May - 2 July.

The works on display are my State of Change series, made during my Dark Matter Residency at PhotoAccess Canberra. Drawing together works using both darkroom and digital techniques light travels through blocks of ice, and as it slowly melts, its shape and form are changed making parallels with the effects of climate change.

https://www.pcp.org.au/state-of-change/

NEW SHOW AT COTTER GALLERY SYDNEY

For the series “Reconstructed Landscapes” I took an analogue camera into Australia’s national parks to document the forests. I sliced the pieces of positive film into different shapes and sizes, like wood-chips, then rearranged them into bold, abstract compositions.

Chrissie Cotter Gallery 31A Pidcock St, Camperdown NSW 


14 - 24 April 2022, Thursday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm

SOLO SHOW AT ARTICULATE SYDNEY

I’m showing some of my ice works from the series State of Change at Articulate, Sydney.

Friday 18 March to Sunday 3 April (opening event Fri 18 March, 6-8pm)

ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE

Open: Fri-Sun 11.00 to 5.00pm

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The Collective PCP

I’m donating a work to The Collective, PCP fundraising event in December. My artwork, Film Cuts (2), will be on show with 100 of PCP's members.

“PCP’s COLLECTIVE is WA’s largest open-themed photographic art event.. turns the spotlight onto Australia’s photographic artists.”