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Lebohang Kganye: In Search of Light

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SOUTH AFRICA: a remarkable synthesis of structure, texture, and authenticity exploring the triangular relationship between history, memory, and community storytelling.

28 January 2023 Africa

Hyongryol Bak: Views Beyond Utility

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Land art seeking a fresh perspective on Nature freed from notions of territory and property.

6 January 2023 Asia

Nick Brandt: Elegies on the Sixth Extinction

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AFRICA / AMERICAS: poignant imagery on a grand scale evoking the existential threat of human exploitation to both animals and people.

19 November 2022 Africa, Americas

Raúl Cantú: The Artist and the Algorithm

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MEXICO: Harnessing artificial intelligence to create photo-based images that may well come closer to the true nature human visual perception than will ever be possible with a camera.

15 October 2022 Americas

Alisa Sibirskaya: The Art of Light

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RUSSIA / SPAIN: Alisa Sibirskaya creates photographic tableaux echoing themes from the Dutch Baroque and Siberian folktales that capture the luminous glow of a bygone age.

24 September 2022 Asia, Europe

Saleh AlDaghari: Harmony and Invention

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SAUDI ARABIA: Fascinated by harmony and dissonance, and the cycles of return, Saleh AlDaghari’s picture-making sits on the cusp between surrealism and allegory.

3 September 2022 Asia

Shira Gold: Against the Haste of Things

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CANADA: Delicate still-life images that capture a sense of tranquillity while celebrating the small and fleeting things in life.

30 July 2022 Americas

Mark Kimber: Imperfect Memories

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AUSTRALIA: Luminous yet elusive images that navigate the gulf between the world of the senses and the interior realm of the self.

2 July 2022 Oceania

Sergio Fasola: Pintar con luz ilógica

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ARGENTINA: La sensibilidad de la pintura y las técnicas de la fotografía se conjugan para crear un realismo mágico irónico pero extrañamente familiar.

29 May 2022 Americas

Sergio Fasola: Painting with Illogical Light

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ARGENTINA: The sensibilities of painting and the techniques of photography blend to create an ironic but strangely familiar magic realism.

28 May 2022 Americas

Michael Grab: The Harmony of the Stones

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CANADA / USA: Temporary sculptures created by balancing stones with nothing more than gravity to hold them together.

26 February 2022 Americas

Jonathan Conda: Singing My Heart Out

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USA: With an emphasis on the dignity of all living things, these lo-fi collage works seek to emphasise harmony and our shared human nature, free from judgement.

12 February 2022 Americas

Riitta Päiväläinen: Of Ice and Intuition

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FINLAND: Landscapes, ice, and flea-market clothing and fabrics come together in an unusual aesthetic and conceptual marriage – part myth, part speculation.

29 January 2022 Europe

Alexia Sinclair: The Art of the Historical Present

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AUSTRALIA: Figures from history and legend elegantly reconceived with the technology and sensibility of the present.

11 December 2021 Oceania

Magdalena Bors: Household Magic

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AUSTRALIA: Fantastical photographs suggesting a domestic magic brought into being by longing, obsession or childlike exuberance.

20 November 2021 Oceania

Jeremy Blincoe: The Honest Mythmaker

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NEW ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA: A visual storyteller exploring the interior world of the mind through the shared imagination of the community.

2 October 2021 Oceania

Hyunmi Yoo: Dancing the Perceptual Edge

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Creating a fluid and ambiguous aesthetic space between painting, sculpture and photography, Hyunmi Yoo challenges our understanding of the relationship between visual representation, ‘truth’ and ‘reality’.

28 August 2021 Asia

Wilfred Lim: Happy on the Outside

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MALAYSIA / SINGAPORE: Apparently whimsical images that critique community erasure in Malaysia and the re-wilding of a hyperreal city-state in lockdown.

24 July 2021 Asia

Thomas Kellner: A Dance to the Music of Time

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GERMANY: Reworking the traditional contact sheet on a grand scale, Thomas Kellner makes architecture dance.

10 July 2021 Europe

Maleonn: Theatre of the Mind

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CHINA: A fusion of theatre and photography that, with an eccentric magic, weaves together the light and dark of the human condition.

26 June 2021 Asia

Edgar Alvarez: Imaginary Worlds and Sad Realities

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COLOMBIA: An artist using clay figures to tell the stories of real people – stories of homelessness and social invisibility.

12 June 2021 Americas

Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Constructing from the catalogue of British oil painting ironic self-portraits that situate the alienated Asian man in the midst of Britain’s aristocratic past.

17 April 2021 Asia

Robyn Stacey: Bringing the Museum to Life

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AUSTRALIA: Photographic tableaux that bring new life to the artefacts of historical and natural-history museums nationally and internationally.

27 March 2021 Oceania

Roger Ballen: The Enigma of Organised Chaos

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SOUTH AFRICA: With a unique visual signature, Roger Ballen’s existential psychodramas have maintained their uncompromising independence, vividly capturing the imagination of generations over five decades.

20 March 2021 Africa

Virginie Maillard: Metaphors of the Real

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FRANCE: As the old civilisation collapses generating crisis, illusion and corruption, the paradox of the real echoes through the imaginative lens of memory.

13 March 2021 Europe

Judith Crispin: The Compassion of Country

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AUSTRALIA: a remarkable synthesis of timeless Aboriginal wisdom and radically innovative printmaking that creates pictures of intense poetic beauty.

27 February 2021 Oceania

Andrés Wertheim: Conversing with Ghosts

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ARGENTINA: The museum revealed as a place of haunting apparitions. Or is it we who are more truly ghosts in the museum…?

20 February 2021 Americas

Cássio Vasconcellos: A Bird’s-Eye View

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BRAZIL: Spectacular images that extend the concepts of time, space and perspective to explore the complex and multifarious nature of our contemporary world.

13 February 2021 Americas

The 12 Days of…: Revisiting the Festive Season

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INTERNATIONAL: Impressions of Christmas and the New Year through the kaleidoscopic lens of artists from Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

19 December 2020 Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Erwin Olaf: A Hesitant Beauty

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NETHERLANDS: Knighted by the Dutch Government, Erwin Olaf has earned a world-wide reputation for his immaculately choreographed tableaux that subtly suggest the ultimate uncertainty of being.

12 December 2020 Europe

Elaine Duigenan: The Pursuit of Clarity

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UNITED KINGDOM: A forensic examination of plants, zoological specimens, snail trails or nylon stockings that finds poetry in precision and unexpected grandeur in the mundane.

5 December 2020 Europe

Sian Bonnell: Insights of the Absurd

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UNITED KINGDOM: Throwing the paradoxes of the domestic environment into sharp relief, Sian Bonnell uses absurdity to critique the socially constructed role of women in the home.

14 November 2020 Europe

Marian Drew: Natural Wonders and Human Conceits

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AUSTRALIA: With a subtle insistence, Marian Drew’s still-life and light-painting images question how we might inhabit and share the natural world in a sustainable and equitable way.

17 October 2020 Oceania

Dominique Teufen: Photographs In the Mind’s Eye

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SWITZERLAND: Playing with the nature of visual perception, Dominique Teufen discovers the creative possibilities of the photocopier, photoflash, glossy photographic paper and grey paint.

26 September 2020 Europe

Christophe Canato: Principles of Uncertainty

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AUSTRALIA: Rather than illustrating an idea, Christophe Canato’s images propose a paradox that animates questions around gender, sexuality and the transition from child to adult.

19 September 2020 Oceania

Pat Brassington: 1+1=3

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AUSTRALIA: Pat Brassington exploits the legacies of Surrealism while subtly subverting those (primarily masculine) traditions with a clearly feminine and feminist inflection.

8 August 2020 Oceania

Diana Thorneycroft: Long Shadows in the North

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CANADA: Combining humour with cultural critique; history with psychology, Diana Thorneycroft constructs visual stories of the anxiety and contradiction embedded in the dark subsoil of Canadian national mythology.

11 July 2020 Americas

Luis González Palma: The Art of Sadness

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GUATEMALA: Luis González Palma grew up during thirty years of civil war, but while his images evoke sadness, they neither sentimentalise nor do they counsel despair. Rather they affirm the transcendent nature of the human spirit.

6 June 2020 Americas

Calum Colvin: Picturing Scottish Identity

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UNITED KINGDOM: An exploration of Scotland’s cultural and historical figures through an innovative hybrid of photography, painting, sculpture and installation.

29 February 2020 Europe

Roberto Fernández Ibáñez: Renaissance Man

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URUGUAY: An artist, chemist, craftsman, essayist, poet, and teacher, who imbues photography with a newfound physical and philosophical dimension.

8 February 2020 Americas

Thomas Friedrich Schaefer: In Search of Lost Time

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GERMANY: Experiential space and resonant fragments of childhood memory brought to life in precise yet elusive detail.

18 January 2020 Europe
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