Exhibitions of Polixeni Papapetrou at Stills Gallery |
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Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Curtain Call final exhibition24 May – 8 Jul 2017 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 … Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Eden 3 Sep – 1 Oct 2016Colourful, abundant and compelling, Polixeni Papapetrou’s new series Eden arose out of a commission by the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne to create works in response to the Melbourne General Cemetery. Papapetrou, photographed flowers obtained from the cemetery against a black backdrop to invoke ideas about mourning and remembrance. For Papapetrou, whose own plot is in the cemetery, and who, through illness, has faced her own mortality, it was a challengin… Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 SEASON 14 3 Dec 2014 – 28 Feb 2015Each 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… Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Lost Psyche 29 Oct – 29 Nov 2014In Lost Psyche, Polixeni Papapetrou portrays emblematic figures that have come to the end of their tradition, their rationale, their place in the world. These intriguing and charismatic characters—the poet, the tourist, the immigrant, among others—bring to life antique Victorian paper masks. Yet, despite being cast beyond our immediate reality, their costumes harking back to earlier times, their settings to fantastical places, these archetypal figures live on in the cultura… Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Garden of Earthly Delights 14 Nov 2012 – 23 Feb 2013SEASON 12: Garden of Earthly Delights
14 November to 22 December 2012
This exhibition draws from a wide range of photomedia including traditional photographic practices and some rich examples of contemporary documentary in Sydney. All the participating artists have exhibited at Stills before.
The artists are Narelle Autio, Polixeni Papapetrou, Anne Noble, Danielle Thompson, Garry Trinh, Ben … Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 The Dreamkeepers 28 Mar – 5 May 2012POLIXENI PAPAPETROUThe Dreamkeepers28 March to 5 May 2012Opening Saturday 31 March 3-5pm“These transitional places in one’s life are often the most creative, and as we grapple for answers and clarity what is often realized is ambiguity and confusion that reigns supreme. Like fairy stories, Papapetrou uses absurdity to make symbolic sense of world she struggles to understand.” Susan Bright - Between Worlds catalogue 2009… Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Season10 17 Nov 2010 – 29 Jan 2011SEASON10Narelle Autio / Pat Brassington / Petrina Hicks / Mark Kimber / William Lamson / Polixeni Papapetrou / Trent Parke / Robyn Stacey / William YangNovember 17 to December 22, 2010Reopens January 18 to 29, 2011In SEASON10 we are featuring a mix of unseen images and work selected from previous series by each artist, with an emphasis on summer and celebration. Narelle Autio’s Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Between Worlds 2 Jun – 3 Jul 2010POLIXENI PAPAPETROU
Between Worlds
2 June to 3 July 2010
The worlds of Polixeni Papapetrou are increasingly fantastical in this new exhibition Between Worlds. To understand the influences and references in her work we must look not only to photography (Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Diane Arbus), but more pertinently to painting (in this exhibition, Caspar David Friedrich, Hans Holbein and John Whistler for example). However new anxieties about the depiction of children are… Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Games of Consequence 27 Aug – 27 Sep 2008Games of Consequence explores the themes that Papapetrou has consistently explored – the territory of female childhood and maturation. This new work is based on childhood memories of unregimented play. Polixeni Papapetrou recalls the spontaneity and freedom she experienced growing up spending hours playing with friends outside the home discovering worlds beyond her own. In contrast, she feels the generation of her own children has seen their liberty and exposure to the world diminished,… Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Haunted Country5 Jul – 12 Aug 2006Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 Solo Exhibition26 May – 26 Jun 2004Stills GalleryAUStills Gallery +61 2-93317775 info@stillsgallery.com.au Wed-Sat 11-17 MAKEbelieve - photographic fictions31 Jan – 13 Mar 2004 |
