Trent Parke – News

RECENT ACQUISITION

Stills is delighted to announce the recent acquisition of Trent Parke works from The Avenue of Honour (all 2014) by Parliament House.

TRENT PARKE in BIRDS: FLIGHT PATHS IN AUSTRALIAN ART

2 December – 12 February 2017
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC

This exhibition considers how Australian artists have incorporated birds in their work to explore and tell stories of our environment, history and identity.

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WWI AVENUE OF HONOUR

Australian War Memorial, ACT

At 22 kilometres the Ballarat Avenue of Honour is the longest avenue of honour in Australia and one of the earliest known memorial avenues to have been planted in Victoria during the First World War. Begun in May 1917 and now comprising 3,801 trees, each tree is planted to honour the service of a particular man or woman from Ballarat who enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces.

In 2014 Australian photographer Trent Parke was invited to participate in the international exhibition The First World War Now. This was presented by the renowned Magnum Photos agency in Bruges, Belgium, to mark one hundred years since the German invasion of the city. In response Parke produced the series WW1 Avenue of Honour, twenty-two images made at the Ballarat Avenue of Honour.

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RECENT ACQUISITION

Stills is delighted to announce the recent acquisition of Trent Parke’s Rabbit, Adelaide (2010) from The Black Rose by the Latrobe Regional Gallery.

FINALIST
BASIL SELLERS ART PRIZE

July 2016
Ian Potter Museum of Art, VIC

Congratulations to Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, finalists in this year’s prestigious Basil Sellers Art Prize. The $100,000 prize engages with the theme of sporting culture in Australia.

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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Stills is delighted to announce recent acquisitions of works by Trent Parke.

National Gallery of Victoria have added four Parke works from The Black Rose to their collection. These include Catfish and turtles, Roper River, Northern Territory (2011), Ants on a Jatz cracker biscuit, Dampier, Western Australia (2011), Magpie and baby bird, Adelaide (2013) and Limestone Coast, South Australia (2007).

Monash Gallery of Art have acquired Catfish and turtles, Roper River, Northern Territory (2011).

The Sir Elton John Photography Collection has acquired NO 178 Candid portrait of a man on a street corner, Adelaide (2013) from the series The Camera is God.

TRENT PARKE in ‘PUBLIC IMAGE, PRIVATE LIVES: FAMILY, FRIENDS and SELF in PHOTOGRAPHY’

5 February – 3 July 2016
Art Gallery of South Australia, SA

This exhibition highlights the often close connections between the photographer and subject, whether they be friends, family members or the photographers themselves.

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'THE CAMERA IS GOD (STREET PORTRAIT SERIES)' at MONASH GALLERY OF ART

26 November 2015 to 21 February 2016
Monash Gallery of Art, VIC

This exhibition features Parke’s 2013 series The Camera is God (street portrait series), alongside a range of his works recently purchased for the MGA collection. The series puts a metaphysical spin on street photography, bringing his highly poetic sensibility to traditional documentary photography.

TRENT PARKE in 'SLOW BURN'

20 June – 26 July 2015
Delmar Gallery, NSW

This exhibition includes contemporary artists who explore fire in mythology and culture. Trent Parke's Firestorm, Canberra, ACT from Minutes to Midnight is amongst the exhibited works.

THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUCKET BOOK
is now part of
ASIA-PACIFIC PHOTOBOOK ARCHIVE

Stills is delighted to congratulate Trent Parke whose book The Christmas Tree Bucket, published by Steidl, is now part of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive. APPA is a not-for-profit open-access physical archive of self-published and independent photobooks from the Asia-Pacific region.

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TRENT PARKE: THE BLACK ROSE

ABC1 Tuesday 21 April 2015 @ 10pm
Directed by Catherine Hunter

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THE BLACK ROSE

14 March – 10 May 2015
Art Gallery of South Australia

The Black Rose is the culmination of seven years’ work for Trent Parke. Featuring photographs, light boxes, video, written texts and books, the exhibition leads viewers through a visual narrative that explores ideas concerning the ‘meaning of life’ from both a personal and universal level.

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TRENT PARKE acquired by NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

STILLS is delighted to announce recent acquisitions by the National Gallery of Australia of works from Trent Parke’s recent series The Camera is God (street portrait series), 2013, including NO 827 Candid portrait of a man on a street corner. Adelaide; NO 001 Candid portrait of two men on a street corner. Adelaide; and NO 107 Candid portrait of a man on a street corner. Sydney.

TRENT PARKE in GIORGIO ARMANI ACQUA#5, PARIS PHOTO 2014

13 – 16 November 2014
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Paris

STILLS is delighted to congratulate Trent Parke whose work Untitled #06 from The Seventh Wave has been selected by M. Armani for the 'Giorgio Armani Acqua#5' exhibition as part of Paris Photo 2014. For the fourth year running Giorgio Armani is the official partner of Paris Photo. This year, Mr. Armani continues to explore the theme of water by presenting new works related to Armani's commitment to the Acqua for Life humanitarian project.

STILLS at PARIS PHOTO 2014

13 – 16 November 2014
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Paris

STILLS is delighted to be participating in Paris Photo 2014 with a solo exhibition of works by Trent Parke, The Camera is God (street portrait series) and To The Sea.

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ANNE FERRAN & TRENT PARKE in RETICULATION

10 September – 24 September 2014
Verge Gallery, NSW

Anne Ferran and Trent Parke are included in ‘Reticulation’, the 2014 Annual University of Sydney Union Art Collection exhibition. Other artists include Bill Henson and Arthur Streeton.

MARY ELLEN MARK, RICKY MAYNARD, POLIXENI PAPAPETROU, TRENT PARKE & WILLIAM YANG in REMAIN IN LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MCA COLLECTIONS

9 August – 2 November 2014
Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW

This MCA touring exhibition introduces audiences to developments in photography as an art practice from the 1960s to the present day both in Australia and internationally. Other artists include Julie Rrap, Tracey Moffatt and Rosemary Laing.

POLIXENI PAPAPETROU, TRENT PARKE, PATRICK POUND & WILLIAM YANG in 13TH DONG GANG INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL KOREA

Opens 18 July 2014
Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Korea

Episodes: Australian Photography Now, curated by Natalie King, is the central exhibition in this years 13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Korea including works by Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Patrick Pound and William Yang.

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PETRINA HICKS, ANNE FERRAN & TRENT PARKE ACQUIRED BY ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Stills Gallery is delighted to announce recent acquisitions by Art Gallery of Western Australia of Petrina Hicks (Jackson and Tiger, (2005); Emily the Strange, 2011), Anne Ferran (Untitled from Carnal Knowledge (1984); Scene V from Scenes on the Death of Nature (1986); Pale-headed flycatcher (2013) and Trent Parke (Bugs Laurie's 70th birthday (2006); NO 376 Candid portrait of a boy on a street corner. Adelaide. (2013).

MARY ELLEN MARK, RICKY MAYNARD, POLIXENI PAPAPETROU, TRENT PARKE & WILLIAM YANG in REMAIN IN LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MCA COLLECTIONS

Until 20 May 2014
Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, QLD

This MCA touring exhibition introduces audiences to developments in photography as an art practice from the 1960s to the present day both in Australia and internationally. Other artists include Julie Rrap, Tracey Moffatt and Rosemary Laing.

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TRENT PARKE in ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

Issue 68, Apr-Jun 2014, pp64-67

Trent Parke is interviewed by Brendan Shanahan in light of his new body of work The Camera is God (street portrait series) currently exhibiting at 'Dark Heart – 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art' at the Art Gallery of South Australia, and at Stills Gallery, Sydney.

MARKETA LUSKACOVA & TRENT PARKE in MODELS FOR THE AFTERLIFE

9 March – 13 April 2014
Delmar Gallery, NSW

This exhibition spans 6000 years and features over 50 ancient Chinese tomb ceramics (Neolithic to Tang Dynasty) and works by four contemporary artists that convey the emotional charge of ritual, remembrance and the mystery of death. By setting the contemporary in relation to the ancient, this exhibition aims to connect across time and history to the mystical, imaginative and creative realms which drive human culture.

TRENT PARKE in '2014 ADELAIDE BIENNALE of AUSTRALIAN ART'

1 March – 11 May 2014
Art Gallery of South Australia, SA

Congratulations to Trent Parke who will be participating in the '2014 Adelaide Biennale of Art', which surveys contemporary Australian art. Parke will present new work in the biennale which is being curated to explore ‘the political, the psychological and the personal’.

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TRENT PARKE in DARK HEART - 2014 ADELAIDE BIENNIAL of AUSTRALIAN ART

1 March – 11 May 2014
Art Gallery of South Australia, SA

Congratulations to Trent Parke who will participate in 'Dark Heart - 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Art' which surveys contemporary Australian art. Curated by Art Gallery of South Australia Director Nick Mitzevich, 'Dark Heart' explores the personal, political and psychological facets of Australia's cultural identity.

Parke will present new work from the series The Camera is God ( street portrait series), 2014, a series of photographs of anonymous people standing on street corners who emerge with different levels of clarity. From far away, some are recognizable, only to evaporate into a pattern of grain close up. Others have faces, which have echoed and slipped away from their body. In installation, around the gallery walls, the portraits are encompassing, turning the tables on who in the gallery might be the viewers and the viewed.

The Camera is God (street portrait series) will exhibit at Stills Gallery 26 March - 3 May 2014.

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TRENT PARKE, GLENN SLOGGETT & WILLIAM YANG in AUSTRALIAN VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY

8 February – 18 May 2014
Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

This exhibition includes sixteen Australian artists and over twenty-five photographs taken from the 1960s through to the 2000s. It explores what an Australian vernacular photography might be, and comprises works from a photo-documentary tradition that forged a vision of Australian life via the camera. Depictions of modern Australian life are demonstrated through the works of Trent Parke Backyard swing set, QLD (2004), Glenn Sloggett Empty (1996) and William Yang.

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TRENT PARKE and BEVERLEY VEASEY in WILDCARDS: BILL HENSON SHUFFLES THE DECK

1 February – 30 March 2014
Monash Gallery of Art, VIC

For the first time Bill Henson will curate an exhibition of Australian photography. Trent Parke's image Wiluna WA (2004) from the series Minutes to Midnight as well as Beverley Veasey's Study of a Calf: Bos taurus and Study of a Swan: Cygnus bewickii (both 2006), will be included in this exhibition of around 100 photographs, each chosen by Henson from the MGA collection which in some way have gripped, intrigued, or otherwise engaged him.

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TRENT PARKE wins PRUDENTIAL EYE AWARD for PHOTOGRAPHY

17 January – 5 February 2014
Suntec City, Singapore

Trent Parke, one of Australia's most celebrated photographers, has been announced as the winner of the USD$20,000 Prudential Eye Award for Photography.

The inaugural Prudential Eye Awards celebrate and support artistic talent across greater Asia, and were founded by the Global Eye Program, a partnership between Saatchi Gallery and Parallel Contemporary Art, London. This year's judging panel includes Nigel Hurst, CEO, Saatchi Gallery; Serenella Ciclitira, Founder, Parallel Contemporary Art; and Nick Mitzevich, Director, Art Gallery of South Australia, who selected award winning artists in the categories of Photography, Installation, Painting, Sculpture and Digital Video.

Trent Parke is represented in the Awards by his images After the rodeo, Harts Ranges NT from the series Minutes to Midnight (2004) and Untitled (2004) and the photographic book The Life Saver from the series To The Sea (2013). An exhibition of the finalists' works will be open at Suntec City, Singapore until 5 February 2014

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TRENT PARKE in 'PRUDENTIAL EYE AWARDS: SUPPORTING EMERGING ASIAN ART'

17 January – 5 February 2014
Suntec City, Singapore

Stills Gallery is delighted to congratulate Trent Parke who has been selected as a finalist in the Prudential Eye Awards, one of Asia's most important art prizes. The inaugural Prudential Eye Awards celebrates and supports artistic talent across greater Asia. Trent Parke will be represented by his images After the rodeo, Harts Ranges NT (2004), Untitled (baby) (2004) and To The Sea photo-book II. The Life Saver (2013) in the photography category. The winner of each category will be awarded a prize of USD20,000 and the overall winner will receive a further USD30,000 and a prestigious exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London. An exhibition of the finalists' works will be open at Suntec City, Singapore from 17 January to 5 February 2014.

STEIDL publishes TRENT PARKE

Trent Parke’s series Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket have been published by legendary German publisher Steidl. The unique quality of Steidl book production has brought the publisher to the attention of the world’s most acclaimed photographers, artists and designers. Founder Gerhard Steidl is renowned for personally overseeing every step of production, from layout and design, to the choice of paper and printing. Trent Parke’s highly anticipated photo books were recently debuted by Steidl at Paris Photo 2013.

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TRENT PARKE 'THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUCKET: TRENT PARKE'S FAMILY ALBUM'

20 December 2013 – 23 February 2014
National Gallery of Australia, ACT

The NGA will exhibit Trent Parke's series The Christmas Tree Bucket (2006-08), a playful, offbeat and emphatically Australian take on the festive season. This photographic series examines Trent's experience of family rituals and special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and the family Christmas get-together; a portrayal suffused with Parke's characteristic dark humour.

TRENT PARKE & NARELLE AUTIO in ‘HOLIDAY & MEMORY’

16 November 2013 – 23 February 2014
Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW

This exhibition investigates the annual holiday experience of mid-twentieth century Australia. Memories of fun in the sun, surf and bush retreats are accompanied by recollections of dark nights, caravans, winding roads and cries of ‘are we there yet’, dripping ice creams, flies and Aerogard; all typifying that beloved long, hot Australian summer. Two works from Trent Parke’s seminal series Minutes to Midnight (2004) will be included in this exhibition, shot during a two year odyssey around Australia. Narelle Autio will be represented by two works from her 2012 series Water hole which celebrates the otherworldly beauty of the dark waters she encountered whilst travelling through parts of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

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NARELLE AUTIO, PAT BRASSINGTON, ANNE FERRAN, PETRINA HICKS, MARK KIMBER & TRENT PARKE in 'UNDER MY SKIN: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PAT CORRIGAN COLLECTION'

4 October – 24 November 2013
Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD

Under my skin presents a collection of photographs by contemporary Australian artists that challenge a long-held perception in Australian culture that the suburbs represent mediocrity and a bland life devoid of spontaneity. This exhibitions brings together artists who recognise the suburb as a complex site of memories, dreams, the melancholic and the beautiful. Under my skin is drawn from the collection of Pat Corrigan AM, a generous supporter of contemporary Australian art.

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NARELLE AUTIO, TRENT PARKE & WILLIAM YANG in PHOTOFILE

Issue 93

The Australian Centre for Photography’s recently relaunched magazine Photofile features Narelle Autio’s new work Simpson Desert on the cover this month. The current issue features profiles on the latest series from Trent Parke and Narelle Autio, To The Sea, as well as William Yang.

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TRENT PARKE THE CHRISTMAS TREET BUCKET PORTFOLIO ACQUIRED BY NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

The National Gallery of Australia has recently acquired the full 67 photograph portfolio of Trent Parke's seminal series The Christmas Tree Bucket (2006/2009). The portfolio is a playful, offbeat and emphatically Australian take on the festive season, a portrayal suffused with Parke’s dark humour.

TRENT PARKE WINS the 2013 OLIVE COTTON AWARD

9 August – 29 September 2013
Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW

Stills Gallery would like to congratulate Trent Parke on winning the 2013 Olive Cotton Award. The prestigious $20,000 acquisitive award was announced on Saturday evening at Tweed River Art Gallery.

The Olive Cotton Award began in 2005 as an annual award for excellence in photographic portraiture and has been awarded biannually since 2009. The award is funded by Cotton’s family in her memory; of one of Australia's leading twentieth century photographers.

This years guest judge, Helen Ennis, Head at the School of Art, Australian National University selected Trent Parke from 91 finalists and 381 entries Australia wide.

On judging Parke’s entry, Candid portrait of a woman on a street corner (2013), Ennis commented that it is “a very unusual work, the subject isn’t immediately visible and so our notions of portraiture are challenged. The viewer is invited to actively work with the image in order for the face of this unknown woman to become apparent”.

Trent Parke is one of Australia’s best known documentary photographers and the first Australian to join the prestigious Magnum Photos collective. Award Co-ordinator Anouk Beck said “Trent Parke was elated at the news and to receive an award for this work which marks a new direction for him and his first foray into portraiture”.

Congratulations also to Petrina Hicks who received a Highly Commended award; and to Narelle Autio, nominated as a finalist.

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TRENT PARKE & TYRAN PARKE 'COMPOSITIONS'

Congratulations to Tyran Parke and Trent Parke for receiving a host of rave reviews for Compositions, their visually and musically arresting collaboration with the Australian Art Orchestra during the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Award-winning Tyran Parke, celebrated for his musical theatre talent, invited a plethora of internationally renowned contemporary song writers and cabaret greats to create new musical compositions that accompanied projected images by Trent Parke. The show has been described as "a rare and generous collaboration of world-class artists successfully sharing a performance across mediums" - INDAILY Adelaide Independent News

TRENT PARKE in CARTIER-BRESSON: A QUESTION OF COLOUR

8 November 2012 - 27 January 2013
Somerset House, London

Celebrated French street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the founders of Magnum Photo Agency, of which Trent Parke is the only full Australian member. This exhibition features photographs by Cartier-Bresson that have never before been shown in the UK, alongside images by Parke and 13 other internationally acclaimed photographers who have been influenced by the master. Parke’s unique eye for capturing the extraordinary in the ordinary recalls the notion of ‘The Decisive Moment’, which Cartier-Bresson describes as "a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or anexpression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”

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MARK KIMBER & TRENT PARKE in NIGHT VISIONS

15 December 2012 - 24 February 2013
Lismore Regional Gallery

Sci-fi neon glow, silhouetted moths and moonlit skyscrapers highlight how the diminished light of nighttime presents for Mark Kimber and Trent Parke a plethora of possibilities to view the mundane anew. Their photographic contributions in this group exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery transform the otherwise unremarkable world of car washes, possums, and Hills Hoists into timeless imagery that spells atmosphere and drama.

NARELLE AUTIO & TRENT PARKE FEATURED IN 'DEEP SPACE' NEW ACQUISITIONS

Art Gallery of South Australia
North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000
Until 15 July 2012

Narelle Autio and Trent Parke feature in Deep Space. An exhibition that showcases the Art Gallery of South Australia's acquisitions over the last two years. The exhibition explores works that respond to the external materiality of everyday, as well as the inner realm of emotion.

In Autio's series The Summer of Us, we see a continuation of her interest in the ocean and the beach. The series explores the natural and man-made remnants of long Summer days; an abandoned pink thong, or a lost goggle. Through large format film, Autio documents her finds, treating each with great attention to detail. Her collection of images introduces us to a lovely continuum existing between manufactured and natural, between ocean and land.

Also featured is Parke's work from Minutes to Midnight. This series started as a monumental journey of 90,000km over a two year period. Minutes to Midnight is a recored of the journey both physically and mentally. The result is a dark documentary narrative that is imaginative and intriguing.

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TRENT PARKE AT MAGNUM WORKSHOP FREMANTLE

19 - 23 March 2012 In partnership with FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography

Magnum Photos are delighted to announce the first Magnum Workshop of 2012, an exciting photographic experience held as part of the FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography.

The Magnum Workshop will offer 36 international photographers with an intensive, 5 day practical photography course led by three acclaimed Magnum photographers: Antoine D’Agata, Donovan Wylie and Magnum’s only Australian photographer, Trent Parke

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TRENT PARKE: STEIDL TO PRODUCE AND RELEASE BOOK MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUCKET, 2012

Trent Parke’s acclaimed series Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket will be published and released by world-renowned publishers, Steidl, in 2012.

Steidl have worked with some of the most celebrated photographers and artists across the globe. What began as a backyard enterprise has evolved into one of the world’s most sophisticated and distinguished printing and publishing companies. The unique quality of Steidl book production has brought Steidl to the attention of acclaimed photographers, artists and designers and he works for many renowned museums and galleries.

TRENT PARKE AND POLIXENI PAPAPETROU FEATURED AT PHOTOQUAI: 3rd biennial exhibition images of the world

13 September - 11 November 2011
The Australian Embassy
4 rue Jean Rey, 75015 PARIS

Trent Parke’s Minutes to Midnight and Coming Soon series and Polixeni Papapetrou’s Between Worlds series will be exhibited as part of the Photoquai 2011 exhibition at the Australian Embassy, Paris.

Created in 2007 by the musée du quai Branly and dedicated to non-Western photography, the 3rd edition of the PHOTOQUAI biennial exhibition of world images takes place on the quays of the Seine alongside the musée du quai Branly, extending for the first time into the museum garden.

Acclaimed since its first edition for its quality, originality, ambition and relevance, in 2011 PHOTOQUAI will continue to pursue its original mission: showcasing artists whose work is little known in Europe, stimulating communication and allowing for an exchange of world views.

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TRENT PARKE: Brisbane Powerhouse and Australian Centre for Photography present
The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke's Family Album

1 March - 27 March, 2011

Trent Parke’s humorous series The Christmas Tree Bucket will be shown at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The Christmas Tree Bucket is humour of the blackest hue. In a dazzling display of virtuoso storytelling Parke snaps the family rituals of Christmas with the in-laws and builds a gritty gothic tale of a nightmare lurking in the suburban shadows. Operatic in its vision and darkly satirical The Christmas Tree Bucket is a photographic masterpiece destined for cult status.

TRENT PARKE: BORDERLANDS
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON USA

15 February - 8 April 2011

Trent Parke: Borderlands features a selection of more than 40 key works from some of Parke’s best known series including: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, The Christmas Tree Bucket, Dream/Life and Welcome to Nowhere. Some of the work highlighted in the exhibition was made during a journey Parke and his wife Narelle Autio (also a leading photographer) made around Australia.

TRENT PARKE: Steidl to publish Minutes to Midnight series

World-renowned publishers, Steidl, have confirmed they will publish Trent Parke’s Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket series. Steidl Publishers have worked with some of the most renowned photographers and artists across the globe. What began as a backyard enterprise has evolved into one of the world’s most sophisticated and distinguished printing and publishing companies. The unique quality of Steidl book production has brought Steidl to the attention of acclaimed photographers, artists and designers and he works for many renowned museums and galleries.

TRENT PARKE & NARELLE AUTIO

Adelaide Perry Art Gallery, NSW
30 April - 14 May 2010

A selection of silver gelatin prints from the Autio/Parke collaborative series The Seventh Wave and from Parke’s Dream Life & Beyond and Minutes to Midnight, will be exhibited at the Adelaide Perry Art Gallery in the Croydon Centre for Art, Design and Technology alongside student work inspired by these photographers’ practices.

TRENT PARKE: THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUCKET - CARD SET

Available at Stills Gallery $25
The darkly humorous series The Christmas Tree Bucket, which takes an intimate glimpse into the family ritual of Trent Parke's Christmas with the in-laws, was exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography and Stills Gallery in 2008. A selection of these images are now available as a set of ten blank greetings cards-perfect for the festive season now in sight.

TRENT PARKE: PLEASE STEP QUIETLY EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU

Sydney Opera House Western Boardwalk
22 October 2009 to 31 January 2010

The free exhibition, Please step quietly everyone can hear you, will open on October 22 in time for Sydney Opera House's biggest-ever Open Day and will run until January 31, 2010. Commissioned by Sydney Opera House, Parke spent four weeks across 12 months as an artist in residence shooting behind the scenes.

Sydney Opera House Technical Director David Claringbold conceived the project as a way to capture the magic of life backstage and showcase the sense of community between the different workers at Bennelong Point. An architectural masterpiece and Australian icon-Sydney Opera House is also a workplace. Behind the grand operas and thousand of tourists, electricians set up lights, stage-hands move props, performers eat their lunch in the Green Room and people wait to let the final curtain fall. Parke has captured with frankness and affection a side of the House few people have seen.

Alongside the free outdoor exhibition at Sydney Opera House, Stills Gallery will display a selection of more than 60 images from October 29 to November 28.

TRENT PARKE'S FAMILY ALBUM: THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUCKET

Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
First Street, Booragul, NSW
21 August - 11 October 2009

The Christmas Tree Bucket is the culmination of 3 years work photographing Christmases, New Years, numerous birthdays, parties and family gatherings, Parke offers us a glimpse into the sinister side of Australian suburbia.

"It was there - while staring into that bright red bucket, vomiting every hour on the hour for fifteen hours straight - that I started to think how strange families, suburbia, life, vomit and, in particular, Christmas really was..." Trent Parke

SPECTRUM: PARKE

ACGA Gallery
Federation Square, Melbourne
16 June - 28 June 2009

For Victoria based Trent Parke fans this is a good opportunity to view Bugs Laurie's 70th birthday surprise, a key work from his much lauded series The Christmas Tree Bucket, which premiered in 2008 at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Spectrum is a curated group exhibition featuring artists who are represented by member galleries of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association.

PARKE
SILENTLY STIRRING

Children's Gallery
National Gallery Of Australia
21 March - 8 June 2009
Trent Parke's photograph Plague of Flying Foxes, from the acclaimed series Minutes to Midnight, is featured in the NGA exhibition Silently Stirring. This Children's Gallery group show draws upon the national art collection to unearth works that represent real and mystical animals and beings.