I’m excited to be a finalist in the 2024 GreenWay Art Prize which celebrates the Cooks River to Iron Cove GreenWay–a 5.8km environmental and sustainable transport corridor in Sydney’s Inner West.
Finalists exhibition is at White Bay Power Station from Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September 10am - 9.30 pm
MORE INFO: https://www.greenwayartprize.com.au
I am honoured to be a finalist in the 2024 PCP Clip Award, for ‘images which are critically engaging, innovative, and reflective of global, cultural, social, and environmental issues’.
Official announcement in Fremantle on Friday 12 July.
More info: https://www.pcp.org.au
“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.
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.
I’m a finalist in the Museum of Australian Photography LOOK! Prize with my image “Ellenborough Falls.” The LOOK! exhibition will be in MAPh’s Atrium Gallery in Monash, Victoria from 30 August - 27 November 2023 https://maph.org.au/exhibitions/272/
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 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/
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.
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.
Excited to be invited into the Perth Centre for Photography Collective 2022. Great to support such an important gallery.
Opening night of the 30th Anniversary Edition is 4th November.
More details: https://lnkd.in/gb_ZzDtg
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
The Canberra Times has done a half page review of my exhibition at M16 Artspace.
“The total exhibition is a wonderful and poignant set of works.” Brian Rope
Closes 4 September.
Read the article online: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7869744/highlighting-the-costs-of-human-failings/
It was a great night at the opening of “Reconstructed Landscapes” at M16 ART SPACE in Canberra.
On display until 4th September.
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.
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
I’m a finalist in the 2022 Environmental Art & Design Prize.
The exhibition is at Manly Art Gallery from Friday 5 August to Sunday 28 August.
ArtGuide has done a preview of my solo show at PCP.
"Lack of political action and industry irresponsibility are high on the list of causes for the emotional and cognitive dissonance surrounding the climate crisis. Yet it is still happening and with devastating effects, which Emilio Cresciani foregrounds in 'State of Change'‘."
https://artguide.com.au/capturing-our-climate-crisis-emilio-crescianis-state-of-change
It was great to be at the opening of my six-week solo show at Perth Centre for Photography.
Runs until 2 July 2022.
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/
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
