UNITED KINGDOM: Throwing the paradoxes of domesticity into sharp relief, Sian Bonnell uses absurdity to critique the socially constructed role of women in the home.
Still Life
USA: With her unconventional mode of creation, Anne Skoogfors’ intimate botanical portraits capture the beauty and the mystery of flowers.
REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Bohnchang Koo finds in the simplest of objects and surfaces a nuanced expression of traditional Korean values of humility, practicality, and acceptance of the imperfect nature of being.
AUSTRALIA: Photographic tableaux that bring new life to the artefacts of historical and natural-history museums nationally and internationally.
SOUTH AFRICA: With a unique visual signature, Roger Ballen’s existential psychodramas have maintained their uncompromising independence, vividly capturing the imagination of generations over five decades.
GERMANY: The Zeitgeist evoked in radiantly melancholic portraits in which the artist paints on the black of night with light itself.
CUBA/USA: Landscapes aesthetically reconceived as near and far, vista and texture marry in the moment.
UNITED KINGDOM: A forensic examination of plants, zoological specimens, snail trails, and nylon stockings that finds poetry in precision and unexpected grandeur in the mundane.
AUSTRALIA: With a subtle insistence, Marian Drew’s still-life and light-painting images question how we might inhabit and share the natural world in a sustainable and equitable way.
POLAND / AUSTRALIA: Blending the chemistries of photography and vegetative decay to create hauntingly beautiful images exploring themes around memory, time, habitat, health, and inner contemplation.
USA: Disrupting the sedimentation of artifice through a bold juxtaposition of the vegetative with the simulation, the object with its image.
CANADA: Delicate still-life images that capture a sense of tranquillity while celebrating the small and fleeting things in life.
USA: Patty Carroll’s ‘Anonymous Women’ parody and personify the frenetic consumerism and suffocating domesticity of ‘idealised’ notions of femininity promoted in the post-war era.
INTERNATIONAL: Nine photographic artists from across five continents reflect on what motivates them to create photographs.