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28/4/2004

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Paul Knight.
Photographs
(Gallery 1)

Paul Knight's work traditionally displays the human environment as an unpopulated tableau - a place of potential for the viewer. His prints act as portholes for interiors that in themselves act as portholes - containers for the humans that inhabit them. These large format prints enable the viewer to pour themselves into the image. The size allows familiarity and yet confusion in relation to scale, filling the viewers peripheral vision. This exhibition will consider issues of the urban environment and the city, drawing attention to locations and interiors that can act as depictions of the psyche to those who inhabit the space.

Presented as part of the 2004 Next Wave Festival. Supported by the Besen Family, Baltronics, Hanimex and Colour Factory.

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Marcia Lochhead.
Mirror
(Gallery 2)

Mirror is a body of photographic work documenting Canberra's institutional swimming pools and change rooms, exploring an aspect of Australian National Identity. Looking at Australian architecture, beginning with the first Australian swimming pool built in Manuka, the photographs seek to engage on a historical as well as philosophical level The changing architecture of institutional swimming pools reflects public desire for increasing control of public and private space, hygiene, climate and behaviours. For Lochhead, swimming havens mirror living bodies, being composed mostly of water contained within the armature or skin of architecture and having a life and maintenance cycle of their own.

This work is supported by artsACT.

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Julie Vinci.
Still-Life with a Whore
(Project Space)

Julie Vinci's work is about representation and beauty, calling upon and questioning genres of classical still-life and the nude. Marks on her skin from underwear and rolls of flesh, coupled with trashy poses, shows a model with no reservations about her appearance. The title of whore rather than prostitute carries connotations that although the model appears outside societies conventions of beauty - she actually is in control of the image, and how the viewer perceives her.

Presented as part of the 2004 Next Wave Festival.

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Isobel Knowles.
Portfolio
(e-Media)

Portfolio presents a comprehensive back catalogue of animations and video by Melbourne-based Isobel Knowles - the inspiration for which comes from sources as diverse as arcade games, children's book illustrations and film noir. An extremely talented emerging artist, Knowles is a graduate of RMIT media arts, and her works include Earlier that day (2001) and the animated film clip Like A Call (2003) for the band Architecture in Helsinki (of which Knowles is a current member). This collection also presents a series of collaborations with other local artists, including a film score for Cassandra Tytler, an interactive installation with Van Sowerwine and other works with Haima Marriott, Gus Franklin, Milo Kossowski, Jeremy Dower and Madeleine Griffith.

Presented as part of the 2004 Next Wave Festival.

Image: a work by Isobel Knowles

The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, a division of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The CCP also acknowledges financial support of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body.

Opening: Thursday 29 April, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm

Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
205 Johnston Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
AUSTRALIA
tel +61 3 9417 1549
fax +61 3 9417 1605

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