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ABN AMRO, 2006 EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Foyer of ABN AMRO
28 August - 29 September 2006
Trent Parke has Won the 'ABN AMRO, 2006 Emerging Artist Award'. His winning work 'Motel' can be viewed in the ground floor
Foyer, from the above dates. View Portfolio |
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© Anne Ferran |
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CLEMENGER CONTEMPORARY ART AWARD
National Gallery of Victoria
24 August - 22 October 2006
Anne Ferran has been selected as one of the finalists in the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award. The award is one of the
most prestigious and celebrates the ongoing achievements of some of Australia's most distinguished contemporary artists.
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ROGER BALLEN (South Africa) AT STILLS GALLERY
16 August - 16 September 1516
Stills Gallery is thrilled to be exhibiting the work of internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographer Roger Ballen in
August this year. Ballen is perhaps best known for his striking photographs of people on the fringes of South African society
explored in publications such as Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa; Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa and Outland.
In his most recent book, Shadow Chamber, published by Phaidon, his focus has shifted more into the metaphoric realm.
His photographs are striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms that occupy
the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting,
theatre and sculpture. As Robert A Sobieszek writes in his introduction to Shadow Chamber: 'To discern fact from fiction in
this work may be simply impossible; to tell acting from real life may also be; to bother with such discernment may not be only
futile but missing the point.'
Ballen regularly shows his work in galleries and museums around the world, and his photographs are included in the collections
of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam. He has won numerous awards, including the prize for Best Photographic Book of the Year at the PhotoEspana
festival in Madrid (for Outland) and was named Photographer of the Year at the inaugural Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles
in France in 1512.
On exhibition at Stills will be works from Shadow Chamber and Outland. For more information on Roger Ballen visit his website
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