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Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women 2022
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Finalist in the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women with 2 images! 
Opening 1st September, 2022
Exhibition 1 - 10 September
​BRIGHTSPACE

8 Martin St, St Kilda

www.maggiediazprize.com/

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Maurice, 1990, Pigment Print on Canson Rag, 60 x 70cm
PictureLooking Forward, 1990 Pigment Print on Canson Rag, 60 x 80cm


Under the Nylex Clock: Wellington Street, 1988
Help needed! Do you recognise anyone in these photos?

The photographs are images I took in 1988, when I was a photography student and are of the residents and life that went on in the Richmond street in which I lived,  located under the iconic Nylex Clock near Punt Rd.

These hand-printed black and white images have been printed for the first time as the work explores memory and photography.

However, I need help finding people  who will now all be 34 years older. It is a real time slice of a changing suburb, an archive, and the City of Yarra and I would love to see if we can find any of the people, children (now adults) from the images and also get some oral history to go with the images.
Email: pjkhunt@gmail.com
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​See next page for more images.

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All welcome!
The exhibition runs until August 12th, 2022
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Opening: Friday 27 May 2022
6.00 to 7.30pm
Main Hall/Corridor,
Richmond Town Hall


Opening remarks by Dr Anne Scott Wilson
Senior Lecturer, Art and Performance
Deakin University.

​The works are for sale and in Editions of 5 (+1AP).
​Please email for information: pjkhunt@gmail.com

Exhibition information


​​Thrilled to be once again selected as a Finalist in the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize at this years Ballarat International Foto Biennale! This time with a portrait of wonderful artist Terry Williams, also an Arts Project Australia artist.

Over my back fence, a Lorikeet lands are part of a series of scanned images which developed in the wake of the devastating bushfires which heralded in 2020. With the overwhelming loss to wildlife and environment and the stark realisation of the fragility of life, finding a Lorikeet feather on a local footpath felt incredibly precious.
 
The Merri Creek flows like lifeblood through my neighbourhood and the Northern suburbs of Melbourne, located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.
Referencing Memento mori, the found feathers and plants celebrate local native birds and plants and act as a metaphor for freedom and flight in contrast with our self-imposed borders, containment and notions of keeping safe. 


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Common thread
A group exhibition by the staff artists working at Arts Project Australia - a visual art studio supporting neuro diverse individuals with their contemporary art practices.
How does intuiting the creative intentions of others affect how we intend to communicate our own? How does that influence how we make and see art? These questions bring the subject back to fundamental human expression and how our experience of the Arts Project studio shifts our understanding of perception and the joy in self-expression.
Featuring work by: Alysia Rees, Anna- Maria O’Keeffe, Camille Hannah, Carolyn Hawkins, Elyss McCleary, James McDonald, Jodie Kipps, Lyn Young, Marcel Cooper, Margaret Mcintosh, Meiyin Ahnsuz, Penelope Hunt, Peter Douglas, Rob McHaffie, Suzanne Brown, Tom Pendergast, and Yoshe Gillespie.

​St Heliers Street Gallery
Ground Floor
Convent Building Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford

14 February — 4 March



Martin Kantor Portrait Prize
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
​24 August - 20 October, 2019
Ballarat Town Hall
225 Sturt Street, Ballarat


​https://ballaratfoto.org/events/martin-kantor-portrait-prize/
Thrilled to be announced the Winner of the 2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize for my photograph of artist Alan Constable!
Finding Focus 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 46 x 66cm 
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​Alan Constable is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, painting and ceramics. He is also living with Autism and is hearing and visually impaired. He is well known for his ceramic cameras and binoculars, exploring these items out with his hands and limited sight, his large finger prints indented into the surface for eternity. 
Alan Constable (born 1956) has worked in the Arts Projects Australia studio since 1991 and is held in both Public and Private collections.
Arts Projects Australia studio since 1991.
 

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The Exhibition Project
City Recital Hall, Sydney
2nd floor lobby,
2 Angel Place, Sydney, 2000

Opening September 5th, 2019
Exhibitions rune from Sept 5th - Nov 23rd, 2019
For details and links head to:
www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/the-exhibition-project/#slide-3

I will be showing two two bodies of work, both referring to water and place, made 5 years apart.
Excited to see them shown together! Heading to Sydney for exhibition in
@cityrecitalhall tilI November.
I see myself in you and The Pool Series.


May 2nd, 2019
Had a chat to Richard Watts from SmartArts on 3RRR today about the upcoming show  The world around us
(1 hr:3mins into show time)
www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts/episodes/7235-smartarts-2-may-2019#episode 
102.7FM, 3RRR Digital in Melbourne
& worldwide via RRR Apps

PictureWill Murray, Rivers of Gold, 2018
THE WORLD AROUND US @ ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA
Curated by Penelope Hunt for CLIMARTE
Opening 3pm, 4th May, 2019
4 May - 8 June 

The exhibition charts the process of walking the same paths around Northcote’s Merri Creek for a year-long period, and presents images by artists working digitally.
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As part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival, The world around us literally refers to a five-block radius around the Arts Project Australia studio. Each week as the seasons change and the weather alters, so changes the landscape and our perceptions of it. Through the process of walking the same paths over a year, Arts Project studio artists will present work that focuses on and truly examines the fluctuations of their local environment, articulating their interests and concerns.
Featuring works by: Miles Howard-Wilks, Danny Lyons, James MacSporran, Eden Menta, Will Murray, Anthony Romagnano, Aidan Sefo, Georgia Szmerling and Lachlan Turk.
The exhibition will be opened by Bronwyn Johnson, Executive Director, CLIMARTE.
www.artsproject.org.au/event/world-around-us/?fbclid=IwAR3Gh133Z47FxLAq4se4RNKOCZcGzqlxm5eP7_rfa2m68fgcyrHrds13W8k


Finalist
Milburn Art Prize, 2019
‘Landscape as a space of creative discovery’ on Friday 3 May @6:00pm.
Brisbane Institute of Art
www.brisart.org/milburn-prize

The 2019 Paul Milburn Art Prize reflects the evolving nature and aims of BIA to honour Paul Milburn, a much loved and respected tutor who began teaching in 1989 at BIA until his death in 2011. With this in mind we have made some significant changes to the annual exhibition by opening it to all artists residing in Australia, and increasing the prize to $10,000 awarded for a 2d artwork addressing the spirit of Paul Milburn’s legacy and John Peart’s musings on landscape as quoted above. Accepted media for Landscape as a ‘space of creative discovery’ includes painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media and photography.

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I see myself in you
Penelope Hunt’s series, I see myself in you focuses on how connection to the environment can psychologically mirror the relationship we have with ourselves and the world around us.
Taken of the Merri Creek, which weaves behind her home in Melbourne’s Northern suburbs, the images are all seen from a particular vantage point. Near to where an historic meeting took place between John Batman and prominent members of the Wurundjeri-willam and other clans in 1835, Elders concluded with Batman the only treaty to be ever struck between the invaders and the indigenous people of Australia. 
Through the process of waking and noticing how the reflection changed over the seasons, a relationship and connection to place became more evident and simultaneously more complex. 
​Notions of beauty, yearning and connection to the landscape are referenced against the colonial landscape painter John Glover’s artwork, Swilker Oak, as shadows of our Colonial past are evoked within the landscape. 

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