Semi-Finalist Head On Photo Festival

I’ve been selected as a 2026 semi-finalist in the Head On Photo Awards for my work “Archie”.

My work will be featured in a digital exhibition at Bondi Pavilion Gallery 7-29 November.

Read more about the festival here: https://headon.org.au/festival


Finalist LOOK! MA

I’m pleased to be a finalist in the LOOK! Prize, an annual photographic prize that celebrates work produced by MAPh Members. My work is “Archie”.

On display at MAPh Melbourne from 7 October to 7 December 2026.


https://maph.org.au/artworks/3455/

https://maph.org.au/exhibitions/335/

Earth exhibition Articulate Sydney

Excited to be in the EARTH exhibition at Articulate Project Space presented during Earth Month (April) with my work “RiverBends”.

“EARTH brings together artists who reflect on our relationship to the planet, as place, as material, as shared ground. In a time marked by environmental change and global uncertainty, the exhibition offers a space to consider how we inhabit, shape and respond to the world around us.”

Exhibition dates: 4 – 26 April ; Friday, Saturday, Sunday | 11am – 5pm

Location: 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, Sydney

FINALIST GREENWAY ART PRIZE

I’m excited to be a finalist in the 2024 GreenWay Art Prize with my work “Against the flow”.

The prize 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

FINALIST CLIP AWARD

I am honoured to be a finalist in the 2024 PCP Clip Award, for my work “Against the Flow 1”.

The award honours ‘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

“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 four works in Fieldwork exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney from 6 October – 4 November. On show was “Moving Ice”, 2020.

Fieldwork brings together artists whose works critically engage with ecology, materiality, and temporality through photo-graphic media.

https://www.abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au/grace-cossington-smith-gallery/past-exhibitions/fieldwork

Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize

I have works in the 2023 Inaugural 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.” “Bathurst, 2022”; “Werri Beach Rockpool, 2022.”

https://photoaccess.org.au/calendar/exhibitions/canberra-contemporary-photographic-prize/

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.

I showed : RECONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES: BROADWATER NATIONAL PARK, 2021”

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 with my work “STATE OF CHANGE: ON ICE#5.”

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

FINALIST ENVIRONMENT ART AWARD

I’m a finalist in the 2022 Environmental Art & Design Prize with my work “FILM CUTS #6”.

The exhibition is at Manly Art Gallery from Friday 5 August to Sunday 28 August.

MORE INFO: https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/northern-beaches-environmental-art-and-design-prize/2022-prize/2022-finalists