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Bowness prize acceptance speech MAPh

Bowness prize acceptance speech MAPh

    Winner of Bowness Photography Prize 2023 "WINNER ANNOUNCED! Bowness Photography Prize 2023 Sydney-based artist Anne Zahalka has been named winner of the 2023 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize for her work 'Kunstkammer' (2023). Rhana...

Finalist in Manly Environmental Art and Design Prize

Finalist in Manly Environmental Art and Design Prize

  Finalist in Manly Environmental Art and Design Prize Manly Art Gallery and Museum, 5th - 28th August 2022 "This artwork revisits a habitat display at the American natural History Museum in New York depicting the Andros coral reef in the Bahamas that recorded...

SNAPPED! Street Photography in the Illawarra, 2021

SNAPPED! Street Photography in the Illawarra, 2021

  SNAPPED! Street photography in the illawarra, 2021Wollongong Art Gallery, 11 December 2021 - 20 February 2022 SNAPPED! Street Photography in the Illawarra has opened at the Wollongong Art Gallery and will show from 11 December 2021 - 20 February 2022. This...

Anne Zahalka added to the Hundred Heroines 2021

Anne Zahalka added to the Hundred Heroines 2021

  Anne Zahalka is one of the Hundred Heroines for 2021, alongside a prestigious list of global women photographers. Hundred Heroines, the pioneering charitable organisation promotes and celebrates the diversity of women working globally in photography today, has...

Anne Zahalka’s work is a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award, 2021

Anne Zahalka’s work is a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award, 2021

Anne Zahalka’s work is a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award, 2021. The Olive Cotton Award is an acquisitive biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition is selected from entrants across...

PORTRAIT FROM ‘IMMORTALS’ SERIES IN AGNSW GRAND COURTS

PORTRAIT FROM ‘IMMORTALS’ SERIES IN AGNSW GRAND COURTS

'Self-assured, alluring and utterly artificial, Anne Zahalka’s Nicole Kidman casts an eerily familiar gaze at the viewer, hanging in the Grand Courts at AGNSW. Above, George Lambert’s Miss Gladys Neville Collins poses for the artist and for us – a performance at once...

NGV Photos Frome Home

NGV Photos Frome Home

#NGVPhotosFromHome is a project featuring photographers, whose work is in the NGV Collection, sharing their current lived experience, or a moment in time through images and words. This week photographer Anne Zahalka shares her reflections and images from home, and we...

You Are Here, Boroondara Exhibition

You Are Here, Boroondara Exhibition

You Are On Gundungurra Land! 2020Boroondara, Town Hall Gallery, HawthornYou Are Here, 1 March – 10 May 2020 For the First Peoples of Australia, and for those more recently arrived, our relationship with the Australian landscape is defined by a deep sense of...

Wild Life, Australia at ARC ONE Gallery

Wild Life, Australia at ARC ONE Gallery

Wild Life, AustraliaARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne16 April - 24 May, 2019 Anne Zahalka This exhibition is part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 - a socially-engaged festival of climate change related arts and ideas featuring curated exhibitions and theatre works...

The Fate of Things at the Sydney Jewish Museum

The Fate of Things at the Sydney Jewish Museum

The Fate of Things: Memory objects and art Sydney Jewish Museum 2 November 2018 – 28 February 2019 Anne Zahalka and Sylvia Griffin Anne Zahalka and Sylvia Griffin remember their families’ Holocaust experiences through inherited objects, remnants and relics. Through...

The Wanderer Upon a Castle Came…

The Wanderer Upon a Castle Came…

Künstlerhas Bethanien 4 – 10 October 2018 In 1987 I undertook a residency in Berlin at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. It was my first experience of living alone completely disassociated from language and familiar things. I enjoyed the anonymity of being a foreigner and...

Major International Photography Exhibition in Korea

Major International Photography Exhibition in Korea

Anne Zahalka is taking part in a major international photography exhibition being held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, 18 October 2018 – 28 February 2019. In Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Anne’s 1995 series Open House, is being...

Bowness Photography Prize 2018 Finalist

Bowness Photography Prize 2018 Finalist

Anne Zahalka’s work Krazy Kashmiris in Stagland, from the series Wild Life in the Age of the Anthropocene, was a finalist in the 2018 Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art.

Nobody Loves You More Than Me: Finding Margarete

Nobody Loves You More Than Me: Finding Margarete

Nobody loves you more than me - Finding Margarete Original story by Anne Zahalka Written by Charlotte Wood An Untold Story from the Holocaust, SBS Nobody Loves You More Than Me: Finding Margarete is a new interactive text based documentary produced by SBS Australia...

Incommensurable at ANU Drill Hall Gallery

Incommensurable at ANU Drill Hall Gallery

Incommensurable - photomedia in the era of globalisation Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra 23 February - 8 April 2018 Anne Zahalka, Ciara O’Brien, David Stephenson, Martin Walch, Merilyn Fairskye, Nick Danziger Curated by Terence Maloon In...

Realising Mother at Kudos Gallery

Realising Mother at Kudos Gallery

Realising Mother Kudos Gallery, Paddington 1-18 November 2017 Denise Ferris, Sally McInerney, Julie Sundberg, Anke Stäcker, Deborah Kelly, Raphaela Rosella, Miho Watanabe, Sarah Rhodes, Teena McCarthy, Clare Rae, Donna Bailey, Anne Zahalka, Rafaela Pandolfini, Theresa...

Threshold at Jarvis Dooney Galerie

Threshold at Jarvis Dooney Galerie

Jarvis Dooney Galerie is honoured and humbled to present recent work from one of Australia's most highly regarded photo-media artists Anne Zahlaka. For over 30 years her work has often explored cultural stereotyping and challenged these with a humorous and critical...

Olive Cotton Award 2017 exhibition

Olive Cotton Award 2017 exhibition

The Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture is a $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture dedicated to the memory of photographer Olive Cotton. The winning work is acquired for the Gallery’s Collection. The exhibition is...

The Landscape Revisited at Murray Art Museum Albury

The Landscape Revisited at Murray Art Museum Albury

Spanning 30 years, The Landscape Revisited brings together photomontages based on early Australian paintings from the Heidelberg School with new iterations of Modernist works by Drysdale and Nolan that rewrites colonial narratives, challenges stereotypes and...

Art Angel Residency at Turner Galleries

Art Angel Residency at Turner Galleries

Anne Zahalka was invited by Turner Galleries in Perth to take part in their Artist in Residence Program in March 2017. The residency program is funded by the Art Angels Inc. and is held in conjunction with North Metropolitan TAFE. More information Anne exhibited her...

Anne Zahalka & Viscopy

Anne Zahalka & Viscopy

Anne Zahalka has spoken about her support for Viscopy, after many years of valuable partnership "I value having an organisation that protects and manages my intellectual property. Creating artworks and knowing there are guidelines and laws ensuring the integrity of...

Dubai Photo Exhibition

Dubai Photo Exhibition

With 129 photographers and 860 photographs, Dubai Photo Exhibition could be overwhelming. On view are works dating back to the mid-19th century, along with contemporary images using the latest digital technology, stunning landscapes, architecture, and documentary...

ZAHALKA exhibition on Newtown Art Seat

ZAHALKA exhibition on Newtown Art Seat

Newtown ArtSeat February 2nd – end of March 2016 To coincide with ArtMonth (March 2016) MOST - (Marrickville Open Studio Trail 0 5 & 6 March 2016) Spectrum NOW (Sydney Morning Herald festival) A Contemporary public art space Newtown – where you can be yourself! By...

ZAHALKA leads art tour in Morocco

ZAHALKA leads art tour in Morocco

This 14 day tour will traverse a large part of southern Morocco from the ancient city of Marrakech, over the spectacular landscape of the Atlas Mountains to the northern edge of the vast Sahara at the Erg Chigaga dunes, returning via the ancient city of Taroudant and...