PhotoAccess now invites artists and curators at all stages of their careers to propose exhibitions of contemporary photo-based art for the 2023 Huw Davies Gallery season. This is an opportunity to showcase your work in a professional gallery with an established local and national profile, engaged audiences and a dynamic network of artists, curators and arts commentators.
PhotoAccess is a unique space for making, sharing and discovering creative photography and photo-based art. We’re a place where local, interstate and overseas artists, curators and audiences gather to explore how contemporary image-making shapes our world. Located in Canberra, at the Manuka Arts Centre, PhotoAccess is a non-profit, member-based organisation. Each year, we present a dynamic program of exhibitions featuring emerging and established photographers and photo-artists, together with accessible public talks, events, performances and artist residencies that foster critical debate about, understanding of and engagement with image practice.
Our program aims to feature the very best work by contemporary photo-media artists, demonstrating both technical and artistic excellence, to inform and inspire our visitors. All proposals must be submitted online and will be assessed by the PhotoAccess Gallery Committee.
The Gallery Committee is particularly interested in proposals that:
• present new still and/or moving image work and/or multimedia and/or 3D image-based work
• involve artistic experimentation and innovation
• challenge the methods of display and installation to create a dynamic audience experience
• encourage, develop and extend critical debate about contemporary photo-based art practice
• explore social, political, environmental and aesthetic questions of contemporary relevance
• are accompanied by an engaging and innovative public program
PhotoAccess welcomes submissions from interstate and international applicants and applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTQIA+ and people with lived experience of disability.
Exhibitions may occupy one or more gallery spaces in the Huw Davies Gallery. PhotoAccess encourages artists/curators to consider applying for the all three gallery spaces to exhibit a large, resolved and coherent series of works.
Please note that artists/photographers who presented a Huw Davies Gallery solo exhibition in 2022 are not eligible to apply for 2023. Photographers/artists who contributed to a group exhibition in 2022 are welcome to submit proposals for 2023 solo or group shows.
