When we take a photograph of someone, we’re seeking to apprehend something of that person by way of a light-sensitive surface. So, when I asked my grandmother to make her own inscriptions on my 4 by 5-inch negative with her pens, I was asking her to trace herself directly into that surface, without any mediation from a camera.
As Adelaide’s Hugo Michell Gallery has grown so, too, have the artists it represents. Now it is presenting an eclectic and fun collection of work taking visitors on a journey over the past 15 years.
Callouts for 2024 exhibition programming, composer-in-residence program, plus winners of Brisbane Portrait Prize, finalists for emerging playwright commission and more.