12 July – 22 September 2019 12 July – 22 September 2019 2 | Introduction 2019 olive cotton award for photographic portraiture | 1 2019 Judge: Marian Drew

12 July – 22 September 2019

The Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture is a $20,000 biennial Marian Drew is Adjunct Associate Professor at the College of Art, national award for excellence in photographic portraiture dedicated to the and is one of ’s most influential and significant photo-media artists, memory of photographer Olive Cotton. The winning work is acquired for the with a practice spanning more than thirty years. Gallery’s collection. The exhibition is selected from entrants across Australia and is a significant opportunity for photographers living and working in ustralia.A She has held over thirty solo exhibitions and numerous group shows in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Germany, France, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, The Award was launched in 2005, and is funded by Olive Cotton’s family Switzerland, the , Mexico and Peru. Her work is held in collections and dedicated to her memory as one of Australia’s leading twentieth century that include the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Photographic photographers. The Award has grown and gained national recognition attracting Art, San Diego, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Gallery entries from established and emerging photographers across Australia. The of Modern Art, Queensland, Murdoch University, and University of Queensland. Award boasts a major acquisitive biennial prize of $20,000, selected by the Award Judge. In addition, the Friends of the Tweed Regional Gallery and She represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial 1993, Pingyao Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc. fund $4000 for the acquisition of portraits chosen International Photography Festival, China 2010 and Dubai Photo 2016, curated by by the Gallery Director for the collection. Visitors to the exhibition may also vote Alasdair Foster, and Photoquai, Musée du Quai Branley, Paris 2001. for the ‘People’s Choice Award’ of $250 for the most popular portrait. Recent exhibitions include Wall Power: Contemporary Australian Photography, The Gallery thanks art dealer Josef Lebovic and photographer Sally McInerney, shown in Cologne, Berlin, and Paris, 2017/2018, Still Life, Casula Olive Cotton’s daughter, for their ongoing support of the Award. Thanks also to Powerhouse, 2017 and Marian Drew Survey, Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane, 2019. the Friends of the Gallery committee for their contributions, both financial and practical, to the Award and opening event.

Front cover: Previous spread: Back cover: Jane Long Steph Fuller Petrina Hicks born 1970, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1992, lives and works in Adelaide, SA born 1972, lives and works in , NSW Time Immersion 2019 Stargazer (detail) 2019 Cleopatra 2019 archival inkjet print on photo rag archival giclée print on cotton rag paper, pigment print framed with museum glass

2 | Introduction 2019 olive cotton award for photographic portraiture | 3 A statement of existence in a lineage of existence Marian Drew

The ideas and history of the portrait are person, through their body, environment or power, how it may be used for good or bad. evidence to determine what is going on. ancient and fascinating. This person the performative photographic process. We have learned from a young age to see Viewers employ analysis and metaphor to existed in this way, at this time. Sounds others and ourselves through the camera search for meaning in the photograph. simple but it’s not. In the Olive Cotton Fashioned into every portrait is the maker lens, constructed to fit various social Award for Photographic Portraiture of the image. We may see them reflected in and personal norms of how we should In an exhibition like the Olive Cotton exhibition, we look and try to find the the expression of the person photographed look and act. Happy, rich, glamorous, Award, one may recognise shifts in person inside the performative stage. or in the strategies, techniques and ideas thoughtful, intelligent, relaxed people popular culture and slow-moving socio- We navigate a photographic language that produce the photograph. Through dominate the social pages of Facebook emotional currents over time. One informed by almost 180 years of the individual or group portrait, the viewer and Instagram. Exhibitions like the Olive becomes aware of power structures, the photography and by painting before that. uses metaphor to extrapolate broader Cotton Award, that represents 432 entries photographer-‘model’ relationship, the In the context of the millions of portraits social themes, social anxieties, thresholds, and 79 selected exhibitors, deepen our gallery-audience relationship, the idea of a taken every day through smart devices, prejudice and fear of one’s temporality. sense of shared history and present a more winner. Photography contributes to inquiry what do we look for in a portrait exhibition? The function of the portrait is to see oneself nuanced and critical view of emotions, and knowledge, individually and as a A counterpoint to the happy ‘selfie’? As a in context with others. status and humanity, represented through society, within certain set shared rules and judge, I’m looking for something genuine, contemporary photography. frameworks. The portrait genre creates an reflective, curious and fragile — ideas and The photographer and the subject have ancestral lineage that potentially reflects images that lie at the edge, generating collaborated to create an image that we Because of the nature of the medium, not only the changes in technology and diversity and subtlety. hope is sincere. As we stare, we see a lot there is nearly always a combination of fashion, but shifts in cultural norms, a kind of different people similar to ourselves. The chance and necessity. Necessity is as of sociocultural litmus test. It seems difficult to push too many familiarity is heartfelt. The indexical portrait much generated through cultural rules boundaries around the portrait because is a protest against nihilism, a statement as it is the mechanical or programmed Looking at portraits, one holds a mirror we are so attached to the face, to see of existence in a lineage of existence. If apparatus. Changes in necessity, that is to oneself. Importantly it’s what the ourselves in history, and to find a kind of portraiture does anything, it tells us that the world we live in, as well as the chance viewer brings to the image that gives it beauty in people. Objectified by the nature we are not alone. We mediate ourselves of experimentation, intentional misuse or meaning. So if one makes an effort to look of photography, portraits allow us to stare to communicate with others and, although technological accidents, keep photography carefully and critically, a portrait may tell at people, even though we were taught the image changes, much of the story does evolving. Chance and necessity work something of the sitter, the photographer it’s rude. However, it’s not an interesting not. Even in this image-mediated world, we together to evolve the language of and the viewer. It’s important to question person we are looking at; it is an interesting still tend to trust the face. We have learned photography and the genre of portraiture. the ideologies and processes that form photograph. We rely on the craftiness of to read it with such subtlety. the portrait and help shape this visual the photograph to sell the story. Through It’s obvious to say, but there’s so much experiment of shared experience. street photography, collections of objects, As one that has worked with photography humanity in an exhibition of portraiture. We environmental and studio portraiture — for decades, I am interested in how the understand this humanity through various explored through analogue and digital photographic process solicits a particular lenses: historical lenses bring experience photography — and more recently response. A friend wielding a camera and experimentation to the fore;

photogrammetry1, the idea of the portrait is enough to snap to attention our self- metaphoric lenses reveal beauty, symbol 1 Using photographs to create a map, a drawing, has been to tell us something about a conscious photo face. We understand its and poetry; or a forensic lens that looks for a measurement, or a 3D model

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1 Hoda Afshar 2 Melissa Anderson 3 Riste Andrievski 10 Brett Canet-Gibson 11 Dave Carswell 12 Peter Cheng born 1983, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1974, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1973, lives and works in Wollongong, NSW born 1965, lives and works in Perth, WA born 1983, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1990, lives and works in Perth, WA Portrait of Shamindan & Ramsiyar Rosie 2018 Elisabeth Cummings — The Artist Studio 2018 Ella — Beautifully Sad 2019 Alan Adler 2018 Untitled 2019 Manus Island 2018 silver gelatin print inkjet print inkjet print inkjet print giclée fine art print inkjet print

4 George Angelovski 5 Simon Bernhardt 6 Isaac Brown 13 Francis Cloake 14 Michael Corridore 15 Judith Nangala Crispin born 1974, lives and works between born 1976, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1980, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1969, lives and works in Byron Bay, NSW born 1962, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1970, lives and works in Wamboin, NSW Melbourne, VIC and Singapore Now I Know Why 2019 Transition 2018 Swim 2019 Jassim 2017 Lily returns to Altair, the brightest of Aquila’s stars, wearing the body of a crow 2019 suBconscious fat 2018 type C print inkjet print ultra chrome pigment print pigment print Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. cabo print on white opal glass, opalotype Roadkill crow, ochres & dandelion seeds on fibre paper. 32 hours sunlight under marked perspex.

7 Chris Budgeon 8 Margaret Ellen Burns 9 Steve Bush 16 Gerwyn Davies 17 Agnieszka Davis 18 Isaebella Doherty born 1955, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1983, lives and works in Perth, WA born 1958, lives and works in Brunswick Heads, born 1985, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1979, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1993, lives and works in Castlemaine, VIC Dr. Rodney Syme 2018 Leith on the Hyden-Norseman Road 2018 NSW Hedge 2017 School Window 2018 Pearl, In Retrospect 2017 chromogenic print inkjet print Couple 2018 inkjet print digital art print pigment print inkjet print

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19 Ella Dreyfus 20 Stephen Dupont 21 Justin Ealand 28 Geoff Harvey 29 Petrina Hicks 30 Kalyanii Holden born 1960, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1967, lives and works in Scarborough, NSW born 1971, lives in Farrants Hill, born 1954, lives and works in Sydney NSW born 1972, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1978, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD Tobias Shine 2018 Man and child 2017 works in Murwillumbah, NSW Workshed self-portrait 2019 Cleopatra 2019 Winter 2018 giclée archival print with UltraChrome pigment inkjet print Ellie May & Benjamin William McDonald Law 2018 digital type C print pigment print pigment print inks on Canson Photographique paper inkjet print

22 Jacqueline Felstead 23 Steph Fuller 24 Douglas Gibson 31 Vanessa Howells 32 Shea Kirk 33 David Knight born 1976, lives and works in Melbourne VIC born 1992, lives and works in Adelaide, SA born 1984, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1988, lives and works in Brunswick, VIC born 1985, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1971, lives and works in Sydney. NSW Loss in a simulated environment 12 2017 Stargazer 2019 Jim Joe, seated with hose 2019 Woman In Another Landscape, Chelsea Wheatley (left and right view) 2019 John 2019 pigment print of flattened 3D photogrammetric archival giclée print on cotton rag paper, archival pigment print A Modern History of Art 2019 pigment print digital type C print model made from 250 photographs framed with museum glass pigment print on cotton rag

25 Gary Grealy 26 Natalie Grono 27 Imogen Hall 34 Lisa Kurtz 35 Kellie Leczinksa 36 Jane Long born 1950, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1997, lives and works in Lennox Head, NSW born 1963, lives and works between Bermagui, born 1971, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1982, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1970, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD Dr. Ted Gott, Senior Curator of International Art, Yahndi the Dance Warrior 2018 NSW and Melbourne, VIC Aidan 2018 Nelson Earl — The Ephemeral Nature of Dance Time Immersion 2019 NGV 2018 inkjet print Elder Robert Foster at Horseshoe Bay 2018 inkjet print 2018 archival inkjet print on photo rag inkjet print digital type C print inkjet print on platine

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37 Robyn MacRae 38 Garrie Maguire 39 Paula Mahoney 46 Cameron Neville 47 Tyrone Ormsby 48 Judith Parrott born 1965, lives and works in Tumut, NSW born 1965, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1972, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1979, lives and works in Guanaba, QLD born 1989, lives and works in Adelaide, SA born 1960, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD The Son 2017 Tony an Australian 2018 Lola 2019 Rural Firefighter ‘Red’ from the long term project Rodrigo Pinheiro, Lisboa 2018 Nina 2019 inkjet print inkjet print giclée print ‘Into The Fire’ 2019 inkjet print archival pigment inkjet print digital pigment print

40 Belinda Mason 41 Mia Mala McDonald 42 Andrew Merry 49 Ilana Payes 50 Martine Perret 51 Viki Petherbridge born 1971, lives and works in Church Point, NSW born 1982, lives and works in Naarm/ born 1967, lives and works in Katoomba, NSW born 1982, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1970, lives and works in Margaret River, WA born 1954, lives and works in Fitzroy, VIC Taken 2019 Melbourne, VIC Fire figure stereograph, Euan Macleod 2019 Portrait of my Son 2019 Margillee 2018 A sign of the times 2019 lenticular Courtney wearing a green shirt 2018 pigment print mounted giclee print pigment ink on archival etching paper black and white photograph inkjet print

43 Mario Mirabile 44 Brett Moffatt 45 Fiona Morris 52 Clare Rae 53 Sissy Reyes 54 Renate Rienmueller born 1959, born lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1973, lives and works in Gold Coast, QLD born 1972, lives and works in Thirroul, NSW born 1981, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1982, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1989, lives and works in Sydney, NSW Stephen McLaughlan 2018 Cate 2018 Family Portrait of Sisters 2019 Untitled (self portrait in life drawing studio) 2019 The Unborn 2019 Katie Rose — the time in between 2019 pigment inkjet print digital chromogenic print pigment print on cotton paper type C / chromogenic print pigment print on archival photo paper gold toned silver gelatin print (printed from wet plate collodion negative)

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55 Allison Rose 56 Annette Ruzicka 57 Karl Schwerdtfeger 64 Jeremy Simons 65 Chris Sinclair 66 Grant Smith born 1957, lives and works in Fitzroy, VIC born 1978, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1961, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1973, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1978, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1982, lives and works in Sydney, NSW Community Elder 2018 First Response 2017 Eileen 2019 Son of the Chief 2019 Evolved 2019 The Chill 2017 pigment inkjet print inkjet print inkjet print inkjet print digital metallic inkjet print giclée print on photo rag

58 Robert Scott-Mitchell 59 Sam Scoufos 60 Krystal Seigerman 67 Lisa Sorgini 68 Marc Stapelberg 69 David Stefanoff born 1954, lives and works in Coorabell, NSW born 1979, lives and works in Brisbane, QLD born 1982, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1980, lives and works in South Golden born 1981, lives and works in Lismore, NSW born 1974, lives and works in Sydney, NSW Communion — Lindy Lee with pack 2019 Portrait of an elderly man and daughter 2019 Mirror image 2019 Beach, NSW Together as One 2019 George Stefanoff 2019 pigment print on museum rag giclée print inkjet print Untitled #1 from the series Motherland 2019 digital print digital type C / digital chromogenic print giclée print

61 Russell Shakespeare 62 Damien Shen 63 Stephanie Simcox 70 Tristan Still 71 Jacqui Stockdale 72 Nathan Stolz born 1963, lives and works in Gold Coast, QLD born 1976, lives and works in Adelaide, SA born 1986, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1980, lives and works in Stanmore, NSW born 1968, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1987, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC Tim Fairfax 2018 One Percent 2019 The waterhole 2018 Raynen 2018 Matilda 2018 Mark, Alice Springs 2018 digital type C / digital chromogenic print analogue multimedia tintype photograph, inkjet print archival pigment print type C print on aluminium chromira type C print charcoal drawing and etching

12 | List of Works * Denotes image detail 2019 olive cotton award for photographic portraiture | 13 Olive Cotton

73 * 74 75 * Olive Cotton (1911–2003) discovered the art of photography during childhood and was committed to the practice throughout her life. After gaining an Arts degree, she worked successfully as a photographer at Max Dupain’s Sydney studio until the end of World War II. She was married to Dupain from 1937–1939 and then in 1944 married Ross McInerney and moved to the bush near Koorawatha, NSW. 76 * 77 * 78 * For 20 years she had no access to darkroom facilities, but continued taking photographs. In 1964 Cotton opened a small studio in Cowra and in 1985, after a 40 year absence, re-emerged with her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. She then concentrated on rediscovering and printing her life’s work. In 2000 the Art Gallery of NSW showed Olive Cotton, a major 79 * retrospective of Cotton’s work, curated by

73 Darren Tan 74 Cyrus Tang 75 Craig Tuffin Helen Ennis, lecturer at the Australian National born 1991, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1969, lives and works in Melbourne, VIC born 1969, lives and works in Banora Point, NSW Visage 2018 Summer Snow — 108 mins 2018 Revisiting Tindale 2019 University, Canberra School of Art. archival pigment print archival pigment print type C / chromogenic print from 10” x 8” negative In 2016–17 Cotton was featured in the National 76 Greg Weight 77 Tamara Whyte 78 Yiorgos Zafiriou born 1946, lives and works in Sydney, NSW born 1976, lives and works in Nhulunbuy, NT born 1971, lives and works in Sydney, NSW Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Max & Den, Across the Old Table 2017 Mt Catt Morning 2018 Reborn 2019 inkjet print inkjet print pigment print on canvas Olive: The Photographic life of Olive Cotton & Max Dupain curated by Dr Shaune Lakin. 79 Anne Zahalka born 1957, lives and works in Sydney, NSW Portrait of a Girl 1931 The Ambassadors 2017 pigment print on canvas Olive Cotton by Max Dupain

14 | List of Works * Denotes image detail 2019 olive cotton award for photographic portraiture | 15 Previous Winners

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 Ella Dreyfus Siri Hayes George Fetting Emily Portmann Richard O’Farrell Tamara Dean The Lads: Nadz and Dax (detail) Monty / Sally Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, former Mufti of The Stone (detail) Savitri (detail) Damien Skipper (detail) Australia – Lakemba (detail) Judge: Sally McInerney Judge: Dr Gene Sherman Judge: Rex Dupain Judge: Dean Sewell Judge: Naomi Cass Judge: Richard Moore

2013 2015 2017 Trent Parke Natalie Grono Justine Varga Candid portrait of a woman on a Pandemonium’s shadow (detail) Maternal Line (detail) street corner (detail) Judge: Stephen Dupont Judge: Dr Shaune Lakin Judge: Helen Ennis

16 | Previous Winners ISBN: 978-0-9943333-6-0 | Title: 2019 Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture Date of Publication: June 2019 | Publisher: Tweed Regional Gallery | Award Co-ordinators: Anouk Beck and Meredith Cusack All images are courtesy of the artist unless otherwise stated

The Olive Cotton Award is funded by the family of Olive Cotton with additional purchase awards funded by the Friends of Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc. Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW

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