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Narelle Autio


Born 1969 Adelaide. Lives and works in Adelaide.

Selected solo exhibitions
2004 Watercolours, Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Not of this Earth, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Leica Oskar Barnack Award Europe / International Touring Exhibition
2000 The Seventh Wave, Stills Gallery, Sydney

Exhibitions with Trent Parke
2006 Trent Parke, Narelle Autio, New Work, Depo Gallery, Sydney
2004 Dream/Life & the Seventh Wave, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York
        FotoFreo Photographic Festival, ‘Dream/Life’ & ‘The Seventh Wave’,
        Australian Maritime Museum Fremantle, Western Åustralia
        Focus Gallery. Trent Parke and Narelle Autio, London, United Kingdom
2002 Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please), Stills Gallery, Sydney
        Outback Races, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW
        Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave, Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2001 The Seventh Wave, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NSW
2000 The Seventh Wave, Stills Gallery, Paddington

Selected group exhibitions
2008 Who let the Dogs Out, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
        My Australia, Australian Centre for Photography, NSW
        My Australia, Summer Projection Window, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Victoria
2007 Wonderful World, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
        Season 07, End of Year Group Show, Stills Gallery, NSW
        Human, Hous Projects New York, USA (in partnership with Queensland Centre for Photography)
        Sydney now: New Australian photojournalism. Museum of Sydney. NSW
2006 Murray Cod, the biggest fish in the river, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Victoria, Touring
        throughout Australia. 2007, 2008
        Urban World, Devoport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
        Group Show, Stills Gallery
        Olive Cotton Award Exhibition, Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
        Picturing the Sea, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Perth Western Australia
        con,cord 2, South Australian School of Art
       Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund, National Gallery
       of Victoria, Melbourne
       Fifth Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award, National Tour, UTS Gallery,NSW
       Earth Cry, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, NSW
2005 Art Cologne 2005, Germany
       Random, Oculi Photographers, Custom House Sydney NSW
       Swell, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, NSW
       ABN AMRO 2005 Emerging Artist Award, ABN Amro Tower, Sydney
       Fifth Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award, Centre for Contemporary Photography,
       Melbourne
       This Urban World, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
       Great Escapes, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, NSW
       Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, Stills South, Sydney
       con.cord, South Australian School of Art, SA
2004 Witness: An Exhibition of Australian Photojournalism, Touring Exhibition Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
2003 Second Sight, Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland
       Return to the Real, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
       Summer Life, Alice Austen House Museum, Long Island New York. USA
       RePresenting the Real: Documentary Photography, Stills Gallery, Sydney NSW
       International festival of the Photograph of Sea, Vannes, France
2002 Nooderlicht Fotofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands
        Rencontres d’Arles', Arles, France and international touring exhibition to Vienna, Prague,
        and Tokyo
       World Press Photo Award / Exhibition – ‘Little Ballerinas’, international touring exhibition to 70
        locations worldwide, including the State Library of NSW
       Witness, an exhibition of Australian Photojournalism – ‘Outback Races’ with Trent Parke, Australian
        Centre for Photography, Sydney NSW and national touring exhibition
        Outback Races, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW
2001 Leica Documentary Photography Exhibition and Award, Centre for Contemporary Photography,
        Melbourne, VIC
        World Press Photo Award / Exhibition – ‘Mercy Street’, International touring exhibition
        Watermarks, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney NSW
        Reportage ‘Australian Outback Races’ with Trent Parke, Twin Cinemas, Paddington NSW
2000 Art at Work, Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport Project, NSW
        Reportage – ‘The Seventh Wave’, Valhalla Cinema, Sydney NSW
1999 Leica Documentary Photography Exhibition & Award, Centre for
        Contemporary Photography, Melbourne VIC and touring exhibition
        Reportage – ‘The Seventh Wave, Synchronised Swimming’ Valhalla Cinema, Sydney NSW

Awards
2002 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Europe – ‘Coastal Dwellers’
First prize, Arts Singles World Press Photo Award – ‘Young Ballerinas’
Second prize, Pictorial, American Pictures of the Year Award – ‘ Colour Beach’
2001 First prize, Nature & the Environment Stories, World Press Photo Award – ‘Roadkill Australia’
Runner-up, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Europe – ‘The Seventh Wave’
Second prize, Best Photographic Book, American Pictures of the Year Awards – ‘The Seventh Wave’
2000 Walkley Award (for Series of Feature Photographs) – ‘The Seventh Wave’
Selected by Australian Art Collector magazine as one of the ’50 Most Collectable Artists in Australia’

Collections
Australia National Maritime Museum
National Gallery of Victoria
Artbank
BHP Billiton
ABN Amro
Numerous private collections nationally and internationally

Selected references
Newspaper reviews
Box office, ‘Narelle Autio’, the (Sydney) magazine, Nov 2004
Kendall Hill, ‘Splash happy’, Good Weekend, Nov 2004
Tracey Clement, ‘Critic’s picks’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 2004
Victoria Hynes, ‘Snap happy’, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 2002
Susan Owens, ‘Photography finds its glass slipper’, The Australian Financial Review Weekend, March 28, 2002
Lenny Ann Low, ‘Under the lens’, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 2002
Robert McFarlane ‘When the Market’s Dead Give ‘Em Roadkill’, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 2001
‘Up Close and Personal at the World Press Photo Exhibition’, The Jakarta Post, October 2001
Sharon Verghis, ‘Intoxicated by a Wave of Raw Pleasure’, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 2000
Critics Pics, ‘The Seventh Wave’, Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 2000
Robert McFarlane, ‘The Vitality of Simple Truths’, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 2000
Robert Drewe, ‘The Floating World’, The Good Weekend, July 2000
Benjamin Genocchio, ‘Stills with power to move’, The Weekend Australian, April 2-3, 2002
Fiona Capp, Solice by the Sea, The Age, March 13 2004

Journals and Magazines, Television
The Art Life – ‘Millions Of Images’, Andrew Frost, ABC Television 2007
‘My Australia’, Time Magazine, August 2007
The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Susan McCulloch 2006
‘Light on life’ James Cockington, October 25 2006, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age
“50 most collectable artists”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 35, January – March 2006
“Coastal Colour”, ill., Pol Oxygen, issue 11, April 2005
Virginia Baxter, ‘The sea is in them’, Artlink Vol 24 #3, 2004
Alasdair Foster, ‘Bootstrappers’, Photofile 54, 2004
Antonia Williams, ‘Still Buying’, Vogue Living, Oct/Nov 2003
Gabriele Augenstein, ‘Coastal Dwellers, Leica Fotographie International, August 2002
Denise Knight, ‘Not of this Earth’, Elle Magazine, March 2002
‘A View from the Bridge’, Black & White Magazine, March 2002
Jenny O’Meara, ‘Oculi.com.au – the Whole Story’, Capture, Nov / Dec 2001
‘Roadkill’, Time Magazine, July 2001
“50 most collectable artists”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 15, January – March 2001
Robert Drewe, ‘Hidden Depths’, The Independent Magazine, September 2000
‘Aussies Win World Awards’ Commercial Photography, May / June 2000
Viriginia Baxter, ‘The Underneath’, RealTime, September 2000

Books
World Press Photo Yearbook 2002, Thames & Hudson, 2002
World Press Photo Yearbook 2001, Thames & Hudson, 2001
Trent Parke & Narelle Autio, The Seventh Wave, Hot Chili Press, 2000
 


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