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CV

(selected)

Solo Exhibitions

2024 ‘pretty white silk’, Unassigned gallery, Brunswick

2022 ‘night travels’, Black Cat Fitzroy, Melbourne

2019 ‘passage’, Residents gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham

Group Exhibitions

2021 Stages:Life in Lockdown, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

2020 #ICPconcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, ICP, New York (October)

2019 CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney.

2018 Portrait Prize, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melb.

2017-18 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne

2017 The Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat, Melbourne

2016 memory_archive, Photobook Melbourne, Melbourne

2015 Head On Portrait Prize (semi-finalist screening), Head On Photo Festival, Sydney

Selected Awards / Publications

2018 Finalist, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney.

2017 AwardedElwood Community Bank Artist Encouragement Award, Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne.

2017 Finalist, Nillumbik prize, Montsalvat, Melbourne

2017 Top Ten, Documentary category Emerging Photographers, Capture magazine

2016 Folio of the Year, artists' book 'fragments', Melbourne Polytechnic Graduation Show

2016 Finalist, ‘Family’ Award, January edition, Womankind Magazine

2015 Semi-finalist, Head On Portrait Prize

2012 Highly Commended, Photonet Student Prize

Collections

Private Collections

State Library of Victoria – artist book, ‘fragments i’



Media Release LINKS

Linden New Art Postcard Show 2017



About me

I am a photographic artist, living and working in Melbourne, Australia.

I am intrigued by people's complex thoughts and emotions, in particular those unspoken words and the complexities of the human mind. 

I am motivated and inspired to create by nature and am often drawn to light and the way it can transform a scene in an instant. 

Whether I am documenting family or friends, exploring the streets, or turning the camera on myself, the need to create often comes from a place of curiosity in the scene, connection in the moment and/or a need to record an emotion or thought. 

maria. 

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