The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is currently exhibiting four shows by prominent practising Australian artists Ying Ang, Miriam Charlie, Odette England and Lisa Sorgini. These four exhibitions are united by their exploration of themes of family, care, motherhood, place and belonging.
“CCP is delighted to be starting 2023 with such an impressive list of shows. These four artists, in their own ways, are defining contemporary photographic storytelling. Each of these projects have received local and international acclaim in the past year, and we are excited to be showing these wonderful images in Australia for the first time” says Daniel Boetker-Smith, CCP Director
Curator Catlin Langford notes the importance of the exhibitions: ‘these four shows make visible stories which are often not seen or represented in the general media or culture. These projects by leading artists are witness to girls’ and women’s experiences, from the anxiety and unknown of pregnancy and childbirth, the often invisible and unacknowledged care given by women, to the lives and experiences of girls and women in rural locations.’
CCP is the leading contemporary photo-based arts not-for-profit (charity/DGR status) organisation in Australia, and has been fostering local, national and international engagement with photography, and connecting communities through the power of photography since 1986. These exhibitions align with CCP’s mission to exhibit and celebrate photographic media and artists and engage with current and critical ideas through images, and with new ways of communicating and connecting.
The exhibitions close 9 April 2023.
A number of public programs will take place across the exhibition period, including:
9 March, Thursday, 6pm: Writing Motherhood
Panel with writers Ashe Davenport, Laura McPhee-Browne and Edwina Preston to discuss their recent publications which evoke and record the experiences of pregnancy, mothering and motherhood.
Further details available here.
23 March, Thursday, 6pm: Caring for the Caregivers: Mothers and birthing parents
Panel discussion with Eleanor Jackson, Natalie Kon-yu, Helen Ngo and Skye Stewart, chaired by Ruth De Souza, focusing on the concept of care.
Further details available here.
25 March, Thursday, 2pm: Connection; care and community: a collection of shared readings
Join Torika Bolatagici, artist, writer and founder of the Community Reading Room to share excerpts from texts pivotal to her practice, with a focus on the themes of connection, care, collections and community.
Further details available here.
We are also running online events in collaboration with prominent academic Carol
J. Adams and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Centre for Contemporary Photography
404 George St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia
