22 Nov - 23 Mar

Melbourne Now

Melbourne Now celebrates the latest art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice to reflect the complex cultural landscape of creative Melbourne.

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Polixeni PAPAPETROU
Ocean Man 2013
from The Ghillies series 2012–13
inkjet print
(119.0 x 118.5 cm)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2013
2013.36
© Polixeni Papapetrou/Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney

Polixeni Papapetrou

Born 1960, Melbourne, Victoria; lives and works in Melbourne. Polixeni Papapetrou has exhibited extensively both in Australia and internationally since the mid 1980s. In 2013 she exhibited Stories from the Other Side, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York; The Ghillies, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne; and A Performative Paradox, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. Recent grants include New Work grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, 2009 and 2012, and an International Touring grant from Arts Victoria, 2010. In 2009 Papapetrou was awarded the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.

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