In 1991 Bob Hawke was Prime Minister of Australia, The Simpsons debuted on Channel 10, Boris Becker beat Ivan Lendl in the Australian Open Tennis Championship, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the web browser, Nirvana released Nevermind, and Stills Gallery opened its doors at 16 Elizabeth Street, Paddington. At the time Founder and Co-Director, Kathy Freedman announced “There’s a lot of very important and exciting work being done at present using photographic images. Stills will …

Each December Stills Gallery features a show of selected Stills artists. The theme for Season 2014 is continuity and divergence. There are twelve artists with a highly diverse range of practices that reflect both the history (of the gallery and of photography itself) and the diversity with which photography has developed in unprecedented ways over the last twenty years. Steven Lojewski’s series Populace was one of the first exhibitions at Stills when it began in 1991. The…

In Deb Mansfield’s new series of photo-tapestries, And dive into the sea, the precarious nature of travel is explored through internet-found images of island crossings and early forays into space. Mansfield is renowned for immersing herself in littoral regions of her research—the geographic spaces that are borders, edges and in-betweens. Through her photography, tapestry and installation works, we have roved with her into the mangroves of Louisana and Queens…

Stills Gallery's first exhibition of the year features three emerging artists whose works traverse rugged coastlines, mangrove swamps and unsightly urban alleys. Eliza Hutchison, Deb Mansfield and Murray McKeich engage the organic. With an unavoidably Surrealist edge, they each disrupt the age-old belief system that couples Nature with inherent Truth or Goodness. These artists explore the unique aesthetic possibilities of new media and interdisciplinary forms, confusing and contra…