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Born Melbourne,
lives in Melbourne, Australia
Education
2007 PhD, Fine Arts, Monash University, Melbourne
1997 Master of Arts (Media Arts), RMIT University, Melbourne
1984 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
1984 Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne
Selected Awards/Scholarships
2007 Australia Council, Visual Arts
Board, New Grant
Arts Victoria, International Touring Grant
Bundanon Trust, Artist in
Residence Program, New South Wales
2005 Solark Publishing, United Kingdom, Hans Christian Andersen
commission
2003 Arts Victoria Professional Development Grant
2003 Albury Regional Art Gallery National Photographic Purchase
Award
2003 Julie Millowick Photographic Award
2002 Australian Post-Graduate Award
2000 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work
Grant
1997-02 State Library of Victoria, Commission to photograph
the recipients of the Victorian
Premier’s Literary Awards
1994 Australian Post-Graduate Award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Haunted Country, Roger
Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
Haunted Country, Nellie
Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Haunted Country,
Johnston Gallery, Perth
Haunted Country,
Foley Gallery, New York, USA
Elvis Immortal,
Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Haunted Country,
Stills Gallery, Sydney
Wonderland, Horsham Regional Art Gallery (March- April
2005)
2005 Dreamchild, Felicity Johnston Gallery, Perth
(August -September 2005)
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
(October-November 2005)
2004
Mystical Places, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Wonderland,
Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Phantomwise,
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Dreams and
Whispers,
Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
2003
Dreamchild, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Dreamchild,
photographic, New York, USA
Saturday’s Child,
Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Phantomwise,
Stills Gallery, Sydney
2002
Searching for Marilyn, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Olympia
Masked, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
2001
Authority (Part II), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000
Authority, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1999
Olympia’s Clothes, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Elvis Immortal, Old Treasury, Melbourne
1997
Elvis Immortal, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Fallible Archetypes, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1996
Curated Bodies, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1991
Elvis Lives (in Melbourne), State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2008 Presumed Innocence:
Photographic Perspectives of Children, De Cordova Museum
and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
Artist File 2008, curated by Yusuke Minami, The National Art
Center, Tokyo, Japan
Silver-Lined, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
2007
Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now, Museum of
Photographic Arts, San
Diego, USA
Aperture 55th anniversary exhibition, Aperture Gallery, Aperture
Foundation, New
York, USA
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Mythology, Fairytales and
the Occult, Te Tuhi
Gallery, Manukau City, New Zealand
Selected works, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New
Zealand
2006 Decade: Acquisitions
1996 – 2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Picturing the Sea, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of
Western Australia
Changeling, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Latrobe Regional Gallery,
Victoria, Noosa
Regional Gallery, Queensland
2005
After Alice, Le Mois de la Photo, Montréal Biennale 2005, Canada
Opening show
Johnston Gallery, Perth
The Plot
Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art,
Ballarat Fine
Art Gallery, VIC
HC Andersen,
international tour including London, New York, Copenhagen, Paris, St.
Petersburg, Berlin, Sydney
Recent
Acquisitions: Photographs from the MGA Collection,
Monash Gallery of Art,
Melbourne
Gold Coast Ulrick
Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
QLD
2004 Changeling, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Line Between
Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography,
Monash University
Museum of Art, Melbourne
The Melbourne
Art Fair,
Stills Gallery
The Plot
Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art,
Museum of Modern
Art at Heide,
Melbourne
Photographica
Australis,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 11th Asian Art Biennale,
Bangladesh,
Dhaka, India
The Year in Art
S.H.
Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Citigroup
Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize,
Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney
Gold Coast Ulrick
Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
QLD
MAKE
Believe-Photographic Fictions,
Stills Gallery, Sydney
Chicks that
Click,
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, VIC
Larger than Life,
Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2003 Fair Game, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
MAKE
Believe-Photographic Fictions,
Hermann Black
Gallery, University of Sydney,
NSW
Corpus of
Meaning: Figures Through the Lens of Female Photographers
Museum
of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Photographica
Australis,
National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore
Construct,
24 HR
Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, NT
Play,
Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Mornington
Peninsula
Regional Gallery, VIC
Josephine Ulrick
National Photography Portrait Prize,
Tweed River Regional Art
Gallery, NSW
Albury
Photographic Purchase Award,
Albury Regional
Art Gallery, NSW
The Citigroup
Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize,
Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney
Gold Coast
Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award,
Gold Coast City
Art Gallery,
QLD
2002 Photographica Australis, Sala De Exposiciones Del Canal De Isabel
II, (ARCO Arts
Festival) Madrid, Spain
Play,
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
When I was
young: Impressions of Childhood,
Global Arts Link, Ipswich, QLD
Photography from
Australia and New Zealand,
Sotheby’s, New
York; The Australian
Consulate, New York
Gold Coast
Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award,
Gold Coast City
Art Gallery,
QLD
Significant
Contemporary Photographers,
Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Telling Tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Perth
Institute of
Contemporary Arts, University of South Australia Museum of
Art, Campbelltown City
Bicentennial Art Gallery
What John Berger
Saw,
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Striking,
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Albury
Photographic Purchase Award,
Albury Regional
Art Gallery, NSW
2000 Telling Tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash
University Gallery,
Melbourne, Bendigo Art Gallery, Institute of Modern
Art, Brisbane
What John Berger
Saw,
Orange Regional Gallery, Monash University Gallery,
Melbourne,
University of South Australia Museum of Art, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
Striking,
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Mildura
Arts
Centre, Geelong Art Gallery
1999 What John Berger Saw, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1997 WorkStation, Platform, Melbourne
Neophytes
Retrospective,
Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
City of Hobart
Invitation Art Prize,
Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1996 Mixed Platter, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Bendigo
Art Gallery,
Warrnambool Art Gallery
1995 The First Age, West Space, Melbourne
A Centre of
Culture,
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1994 Read My Lips, Ascent Gallery, Melbourne, The Union Gallery,
University of Adelaide
1993 Immortality, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
For My Part,
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Images of Their
Land By Five Australian Photographers,
University of Missouri, St.
Louis, Missouri, USA
Selected
Bibliography
Catalogue essays
and books
Emma Bugden, Who’s afraid of the Big
Bad Wolf?: Mythology, Fairytales and the Occult, ex, cat., Te Tuhi
Gallery, Manukau City, New Zealand, 2007
Susan McCulloch, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The
Meigunyah Press and Aus Art Editions, 2006, pp. 754-5, p.776
Nikos Papastergiadis, Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday,
Rivers Oram Press, London. 2006, p. 104-107
Robert Nelson, ‘Haunted Country: The Secret History of the Australian
Bush’, Haunted Country, ex, cat., 2006
Alasdair Foster, Changeling: Childhood and the Uncanny, ex, cat.,
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2005
Alasdair Foster, Beyond Real, Dressing Up, ex, cat., Australian Centre
for Photography, Sydney, 2005
Martha Langford,
‘Lost Horizons, or, The Gates Close at Sunset: Doubtful Realisms and
Paradisiacal Gains’, Image & Imagination, McGill-Queen's
University Press, Toronto, Canada, 2005
Kyla McFarlane,
The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary
Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2004
Vivienne Webb,
‘Mystical Places’, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2004
Ross Moore,
‘Olympia, Faciality and the Punctal Play of Darkness’, Phantomwise,
Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, 2004
Anonda Bell,
Fair Game, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003
Anne Marsh, ‘The
Child and the Archive’, The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of
Desire, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 249-259 and illus.
figs.65-68)
Photographica
Australis,
Alasdair Foster, Asia Tour, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
and The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne
Zara Stanhope,
‘Serious play’, Saturday’s Child, 2003
Rex Butler,
Phantomwise, 2003
Stephanie
Lindquist, When I was young: Artists’ Impressions of Childhood,
Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland, 2002
Play,
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2002
Rex Butler,
Olympia Masked, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2002
Adrian Martin,
‘Legend’ Searching for Marilyn, Monash Gallery of Art, 2002
Nikos
Papastergiadis, ‘Passing’, Authority, 2001
Robert Nelson,
‘Pose-Impose’, Authority, cat.2001
Robert Nelson,
Authority, 2000
Anne Marsh,
‘Light writing desire and other fantasies’ Telling tales: The Child
in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne,
2000
Nikos
Papastergiadis, Editor, What John Berger
Saw, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, 1999
Striking,
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 1999
Barry Divola,
Fan Club, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998, ‘The Day the Music Died’,
pp. 216- 222
Jennifer Phipps,
Elvis Immortal, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 1997
Robert Nelson,
‘The Australian Agonies of Hellas’ Neophytes Retrospective, 1997
Robert Nelson,
‘Pillars of Society, Fallible Archetypes, 1997
Anne Marsh,
‘Faking it: Notes on Interpretation’ Curated Bodies, 1996
Robert Nelson,
‘Gender Hacking’, Curated Bodies, 1996
Kevin Murray,
‘Three Child Proofs’, The First Age, 1995
Susan Fereday,
Immortality, 1993, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Articles
Adam Gifford, ‘Mythology and fairytales reign’, New Zealand
Herald, 21 March 2007. p.B4
Philippa Hawker, ‘Little and lost to the land’, The Age, A2, 10
February, 2007, p. 19
Siobhan Duck, ‘Loss of Innocents’, Herald-Sun, 14 February 2007, p.61
‘Elvis Immortal’, Esquire (Russia), February 2007, pp. 134-145
Anonda Bell, ‘Haunted Country’, Aperture, New
York, #184, Fall 2006, pp. 58-63
Terry Ingram, ‘Big Apple shines bright for expats’, The Australian
Financial Review, 2 November 2006, p.26
French Photo, ‘Les Terribles histories de Polixeni Papapetrou’,
September 2006, p. 13
New Yorker, 18 September 2006, p. 12
Silvia Sorelli, ‘Anglela Grossman’s and Polixeni Papapetrou’s Adventures
in Wonderland’, The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History,
Concordia University, Montreal, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 113-119
Sunanda Creagh, ‘Haunted Country’, Sydney Morning Herald, Arts &
Entertainment, July 8-9 2006, p. 16
Emma Gravagnuolo, ‘La Covata Malefica’, Arte, #384, Milan, August 2005,
pp. 65-70
Georgina
Jerrums, ‘Principal artists’ Sunday Life Magazine, Sydney Morning
Herald / The Age, 12 December 2004, p.28
Adrian Martin,
‘Strike a Pose’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April - June
2004, pp102-106
Louise Nunn,
‘Alice's wonder years’, Adelaide Advertiser, 19 April 2004, p. 84
Adrian Martin,
‘Australia’s 50 most collectable artists, Australian Art Collector,
p.95, Issue 27, Jan-March 2004
Dominque
Angeloro ‘Malice in Wonderland’ Sydney Morning Herald, 10-16
October 2003, Metro, p. 26
Katrina
Strickland, ‘Eye of the beholder’, The Australian, Weekend
Review, 16-17 August 2003, pp16-17
Rebecca
Lancashire, ‘Exploring Wonderland’, The Age, 10 May 2003, Review,
p.7
Andrew Frost,
‘Phantomwise’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 24, April-June
2003, pp103-4
‘Elvis Immortal’
River City, University of Memphis, Memphis, Vol. 22 #2 Summer
2002
Margaret Moore,
Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, No. 65,
2002 p. 57
John McPhee,
‘ARCO’ 2002, Art Monthly, March 2002, pp8-11
Gael Newton,
Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, No. 64, 2001
pp22-23
K.P.Hall,
‘Teenage riot: representations of adolescence in contemporary art’,
Artlink, Vol 21 no. 2 June 2001, pp. 42-47
Anne Marsh,
Telling tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Eyeline,
No. 46, Spring 2001
Anne Marsh,
Antithesis (Sex 2000), pp. 32-40
Rebecca
Lancashire, ‘Loyal to their Royal’, The Age, 27 April, 1998, p.16
Robert Rooney,
‘Down at the end of lonely street’ The Australian, 16 January
1998, p. 19
Heat,
‘Elvis’ Sydney, Vol. 77, pp. 35-47
Zelda Cawthorne,
‘Elvis Lives-on paper’, Herald-Sun, 20 December 1997, p.115
Artlink,
Autumn 1996, Vol.16 No., p.35
Photofile,
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 38, 1993, pp. 24-29
Isobel Crombie,
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, National Gallery of
Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990
Reviews
Melissa Miles,
‘The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary
Photography’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 56, Summer
2004/05, pp. 50-51
Tessa Dwyer,
‘The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary
Photography’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography,
Sydney, Issue, No. 73, 2004, pp. 70-71
Anne Marsh, ‘The
Plot Thickens- Narratives in Australian Art’, Photofile,
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 73, 2004, p. 73
Peter Hill,
‘Sticks and bones’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2004, p. 20
Katrina
Strickland, ‘Raw images via a maternal lens’ The Australian, 30
September 2004, p. 14
Chris Boyd,
‘Mapping mother-daughter terrain’, Australian Financial Review,
18 September 2004, p. 32
Penny Webb,
‘Every picture tells a tale’, The Age, 13 August 2004, A3 p.8
Penny Webb,
‘Phantomwise’, The Age, 16 June 2004, A3 p.8
Robert
McFarlane, ‘Moments of fantasy and grace’ Sydney Morning Herald,
Metropolitan, 1 June 2004, p17
Andrew Sellon,
‘Picturing Dreams’, Knight Letter, The Lewis Carroll Society
of North America, California, USA, Winter 2003, Vol II, Issue 2, No. 72,
pp. 43-46
Anne Marsh,
‘Home of the Brave’, Photofile, Australian Centre for
Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 70, 2003, pp. 71 & 73
Penny Webb,
‘Posed for adventure, The Age, 29 May, 2003, A3 p.12
Marielle Juchau,
‘Photography’s phantasmagorias’, RealTime, June–July 03 No. 55,
p. 14
Peter Hill, ‘The
child within’, Sydney Morning Herald, May 9-15, 2003, Metro, p.
26
Peter Timms,
‘Life Rehearsal’, The Australian, 1-2 March 2003, Weekend Review,
p. R21
Philippa Hawker,
‘Images of an ambiguous world’, The Age, 4 September 2002, The
Culture, p. 6
Philippa Hawker,
‘Finding signs of Marilyn in life and art’, The Age, 3 May 2002,
The Culture, p. 4
Felicity Allen,
Herald Sun, 12 February 2002, p.53
Robert
McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 19-20 May 2001, pp.
12-13
Philippa Hawker,
‘Baby, look at you now’, The Age, 20 November 2000, Today, p. 6
Felicity Allen,
review, 'Authority', Herald Sun, 9 September 2000, p.111
Felicity Allen,
'Childhood Focus'; Herald Sun, 7 August 2000, p. 97
Suzanne Spunner,
review of Olympia’s Clothes, Art Monthly, April 1999, p. 17
Peter Timms,
‘Something New’, The Age, 13 May 1998, p.17
Charles Green,
Art Forum International, New York, March 1997, XXXV, Vol. 7,
p.103.
Robert Nelson,
‘Behind the Chauvinism of Adulthood’, The Age, 2 August 1995, p.
19
Anne Marsh,
‘Violence of Child’s Play’, Herald-Sun, 26 July 1995, p. 56
Susan Fereday,
‘Elvis Lives’, Agenda Contemporary Arts Magazine, #20/21, 1991,
p. 41
Collections
Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Artbank, Sydney
Austcorp Group, Sydney
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
Benalla Art Gallery, VIC
Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
BHP Corporation,
Melbourne
Bundanon Trust, New South Wales
Corrigan
Collection, Sydney
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
Horsham Regional
Art Gallery, VIC
LaTrobe Picture
Collection, State Library of Victoria
Monash Gallery
of Art, Melbourne
Murdoch University, Perth
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Fine
Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne
National Library
of Australia, Canberra
Wesfarmers Art Collection, Perth
Private
Collections in Australia and in the United States
Professional
1987-2005 Board
member and Deputy-Chair, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Examiner for
Master of Arts degrees at RMIT University, Monash University, Latrobe
University, Victorian College for the Arts
Member, National
Association for the Visual Arts |
