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| CCP Photography Exhibitions |
EXHIBITION OPENING - THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER - 6–8PMFREE ARTIST FLOOR TALKS - SATURDAY 28 OCTOBER - 12PM CHRISTIAN THOMPSON - THE SIXTH MILE The Sixth Mile is a new body of work by Melbourne based Bidjara artist Christian Thompson. The exhibition features photographs and video depicting a communication between the artist and his father. Performance based, Thompson uses the human body as a playful medium to reflect ritual; engaging the art making process as contemporary ceremony. ROGER HANLEY: COLOUR FACTORY AWARD - FABLES & RECONSTRUCTIONS Winner of the 2006 CCP/Colour Factory Award for an Emerging Photographic Artist, Roger Hanley’s series Fables and Reconstructions is created in the camera with ultra-long exposures recording the play of both ambient and artificial light. Hanley reveals an enticingly dream-like visual language, aiming to depict a certain moment of transcendence from reality into a place where possibility and impossibility meet. GAVIN HIPKINS - THE VILLAGE New Zealand based artist Gavin Hipkins’ new series The Village, utilises the commercial billboard format via large-scale photographs. New Zealand tourist destinations and vernacular artifacts are combined with vivid blocks of colour placed where one would anticipate an advertising logo. However beneath the seductive surface, there is a darker side. Both echoing and haunting, these works have gothic qualities similar to those found in horror films. SIMRYN GILL - 32 VOLUMES In her latest body of work, 32 Volumes, Simryn Gill has modified the Life World Library; a taxonomy of human civilisation produced in the mid-1960s. Gill’s intervention raises questions of photographic truth and representation. Having removed the text from the books we are left to contemplate the often beautiful and fascinating images, opening up the possibility of new readings. DOROTA MYTYCH - MUTATIS MUTANDIS Dorota Mytych grew up in Poland in the 1980s during the communist era. At the time it was common to see crowds gathered everywhere; people queuing for food and essentials or organised military marches and protestors followed by the chaotic dispersion of these crowds. Mutatis Mutandis is a replication of a photograph of a WWII SS trooper taking aim at a mother and child. The animated images are created from ‘drawings’ made from tea leaves that explore the formation of crowds and the individuals who are themselves elements of a larger gathering. |
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Established in 1986 by the photographic community as a not-for-profit exhibition and resource centre, CCP has played a pivotal role in the support of photo-based arts and public engagement with photography.
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice.
