COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS

2024   Shadow Creep: works from the collection,  Bendigo Art Gallery

2023    Photography: Real and Imagined, Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Fed Square

2023    Home Ground, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

2022     Beating About the Bush, Art Gallery of Ballarat

2022     Psychic Terrain, Bendigo Art Gallery

2020    The Becoming, Bendigo Art Gallery

2018     Legacy: Your collection. Our story, Monash Gallery of Art 

2017     Collective Vision: 130 years, Bendigo Art Gallery

2016     History of the National Photography Prize, (MAMA), Murray Art Museum Albury

2015     Highlights from the MGA Collection, Monash Gallery of Art 

2015     ExpressYourself: Romance Was Born for Kids, National Gallery ofVictoria

2015     Selected works from the F.M. Courtis Collection, Phyllis PalmerGallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo

2013     Exhibit B, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo

2012     Philanthropy:The Art of Giving, Bendigo Art Gallery

2012     Self-conscious:Contemporary Portraiture, (MUMA) Monash University Museum of Art

2010     Australian Rules: Around the grounds, Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne, Peppin Heritage Centre, Deniliquin, and                                                          Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery

2009    The History of the National Photography Prize, (MAMA), Murray Art Museum Albury

2009     AustralianRules: Around the Grounds, Rose de Freycinet Gallery, Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre, and                                                          Central Goldfields Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria

2009     2000+Contemporary works from Bendigo Art Gallery, La Trobe Gallery, Morwell and Benalla Art Gallery

2009     The Edge of Reason: Australian women photographers, BendigoArt Gallery

2009     Botanical Residues, La TrobeArt Institute, Bendigo

2008     Landmarks and Milestones: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the F.M Courtis Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery

2008     Holding On: Letting Go, Monash Gallery of Art

2008     Proof of Age: Youth Culture and Identity, (MAMA), Murray Art Museum Albury

2008     Australian Rules: Around the Grounds, City Museum, Melbourne and Mildura Arts Centre

2008     Recent Acquisitions, (MUMA), Monash University Museum of Art Collection,

2007     Recent Acquisitions, (MUMA), Monash University Museum of Art Collection

2006     Decade Acquisitions, Bendigo Art Gallery

2006     The Female Nude, Monash Gallery of Art, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery and Broken Hill Gallery

2005     The FemaleNude, Monash Gallery of Art, La Trobe Regional Gallery and Ararat Gallery

2004     RecentAcquisitions, Monash Gallery of Art

2004     The Female Nude, Monash Gallery of Art

AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, GRANTS, NOMINATIONS

2019      Nominee; 8th Prix de Pictet; Hope                                                

2017      Finalist; The Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River ArtGallery

2011       Finalist; Josephine Ulrick & Win SchubertPhotography Award,Gold Coast City Gallery

2009     Recipient; Arts Development (Creation) Grant, Arts Victoria

2009     Finalist; William & Winifred Bowness PhotographyPrize, Monash Gallery of Art

2007     Finalist; City of Hobart Art Prize, TMAG, Tasmania

2007     Finalist; William & Winifred Bowness PhotographyPrize 2007,Monash Gallery of Art

2006     Finalist and AwardRecipient; Adelaide University Visual Art Prize, The AdelaideUniversity

2006     Recipient; Quick Response Grant, Regional ArtsVictoria

2006     Recipient; Alumni Scholarship, La Trobe University

2006     Finalist; Works on Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery

2005     Award; WJC Banks Award, La Trobe University

2005     Recipient; Visual and Craft Artist’s Grant, NAVA

2005     Finalist;The Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River ArtGallery

2005     Finalist; The Citigroup Private Bank Prize, New South Wales ArtGallery

2005     Finalist; The Josephine Ulrick & Winn SchubertPhotography Award,Gold Coast Art Gallery

2004     Finalist; The Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize, Energex Arbour,Brisbane

2004     Finalist; The 4th CCP Leica DocumentaryAward and Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Photography,   Melbourne

2004     Finalist; The Warrnambool Art Gallery Award, Warrnambool ArtGallery

2004     Finalist; Josephine Ulrick & Win SchubertPhotography Award,Gold Coast Art Gallery

2003    Recipient; Australian Post Graduate Award

2003     Award; National Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Art Gallery

2003     Finalist; Hutchins Art Prize, The Long Gallery,Hobart

2003     Finalist;The Josephine Ulrick National PhotographyPortrait Prize,Tweed River Art Gallery   

2001      Award; Works on Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery

2001      Finalist; The Josephine Ulrick National PhotographyPrize,Tweed River Art Gallery

2001      Finalist; Nikon Summer Salon, Centre forContemporary Photography, Melbourne

1999      Finalist; The 2nd CCP Leica DocumentaryAward and Exhibition,Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

1997     Award; Works on Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

Ennis, H, Photography and Australia, Reaktion Books, 2007, p. 104

Marr, D, McFarlane, K and Sewell; Oculi; Hardie Grant Books, 2010

Marsh, Anne, Doing Feminism: Women’s Art andFeminist Criticism in Australia 1968-2018, The Miegunyah Press, 2021.

Marsh, Anne; Look: Australian Photography and Photographers, Palgrave, Macmillan Australia, 2010, p.127

McCulloch, Susan; TheNew McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The Meigunyah Press and Aus. Art Editions, 2006

Murray, P, Loti Smorgon, A Life with Art, National Gallery of Victoria, pp. 75, 77, 118

Oculi: Home, 2013, (self-published), p. 17, 51, 80, 90, 92, 97, 101,106                                            

Palmer, Daniel; (ed) Photogenic:Essays/Photography/CCP 2000-2004, CCP & Ellikon Press, 2005, pp 60,61

View Finding: Monash Gallery of Art, 1990-2020, 2020, p.121

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND CATALOGUE ESSAYS

NGV, Photography: Real and Imagined, 2023

Biennale Della Fotografia Femminile; Legacy, 2022

Kier-Smith, Rachel, Memory Remains: the tapestry of family narratives across time and place; A Family AlbumCatalogue, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, 2020

Grace, Helen, Purlija, Z; Realising Mother: Investigating Contemporary MaternalRealities Through Photomedia, 2017

Alessi, Vincent, Who we are, right here, right now, in, Me Here Now: Identityand Place in Contemporary Australian Art, Melbourne, 2011

Barlow, Geraldine; Before the Body-Matter, Monash University Museum of Art,Melbourne, 2006

Clabburn, Anna; The Female Nude, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2004 

Collett, Penny; Landmarks and Milestones: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the F M CourtisCollection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 2008

Crombie, Isobel; Here and now: Contemporary Photography in Australia, LightSensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund,National Gallery of Victoria, 2006

Day, Charlotte; The Ideal and the Real, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2004

Edwards, Sandy; Re Presenting the Real: Documentary Photography 2000, StillsGallery, Sydney, 2002 

Foster, Alasdair; Changeling: Childhoodand the Uncanny, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2005

Foster, Alasdair; Posing Truths, Complicity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2000

Gillett, Sue; Unconditional: Seasons of Childhood, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2005

Keys,Melissa; In Cold Light, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2006 

Marr, David; Eye of the beholder, In Marr, D; Oculi, 2010

McFarlane, Kyla; The Footballers, April, 2006 

McFarlane, Kyla; The Line Between Us: The maternal relation in contemporary photography,Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2004

McFarlane, Kyla; in, Marr, D; Oculi, 2010, pp viii-ix

McLennan, Brett; Just A Girl, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2003 

Milne, Peter; Vex is better, The CCP Leica Documentary Exhibition and AwardCatalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1999

Papastergiadis, Nikos; The Space for Reflection, CCP Leica Documentary Award, Centre forContemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2003 

Sewell, Dean; in, Marr, D; Oculi, 2010, ppvi- vii

Williamson, Claire; Difficult Child, The CCP Leica Documentary Exhibition and AwardCatalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1999

Zagala, Stephen; Australian Rules: Around the grounds, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2007

REVIEW

Aldred, Deborah; ‘Six pics in the running’,Courier Mail, September 25, 2004

Anderson, John; ‘Almost Home: The Collective Oculi’, Online, 2007 http://sparkofaccident blogspotcom/2007/04/almost-home-collective-oculi html

Backhouse, Megan; ‘Unconditional Realism’,The Age, Around the Galleries, October 22, 2005

Baxter, Virginia; ‘Everyday Miracles’, Real Time, Online, April 2000, http www realtimearts net/rt48/vb_stills html 

Baxter, Virginia; ‘Complicity’, Real Time, Online, February 2000

Boyd, Chris; ‘Mapping mother-daughter terrain’, Australian Financial Review,September 18, 2004 

Campbell, Melissa; ‘Mother Country’, The Big Issue, No 240, 2005

Crawford, Ashley; ‘Before the Body-Matter’, Art in Australia, Vol 44, no 4, Winter, 2007,p. 617

Dundas, Greg; ‘Artist pipped at the post’, Bendigo Advertiser, October 5, 2004 

Dwyer, Tessa; ‘The Line Between Us: The maternal relation in contemporary photography’,Photofile   #73, Summer, 2005, pp. 69 -71 

Edwards, Sandy; ‘Picture this’, Broadsheet,Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture, Vol 29, No 2, Winter 2000

Edwards, Sandy; Photofile, ‘Voiceprints’, Issue #58, The Documentary, 1999 

Fitzgerald; Michael; ‘Dark Reflections’, Time Australia, January 22, 2007, p. 50

Frost,Andrew; (on Changeling) ‘The Art Life’, http://artlife blogspot com/2004_12_01_archivehtml December 9, 2004

Hill, Peter; ‘Sticks and Bones’, SydneyMorning Herald, December 11, 2004

James,Bruce; Radio National, ‘The 2003 Leica CCP Documentary Award’, Online, http://wwwtheage com au/media/2003/06/09/1055010920610 html See also, ‘RealPhotographs Tell Stories’, The Age, 10,June 2003

Marr, David; ‘Eye of the Beholder’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, April 17-18, 2010, p. 10.

McFarlane, Kyla; ‘In Mother Country, Camera at Hand’, The Age, June 5, 2004

McFarlane, Robert; ‘Manufactured Reality’, Sydney Morning Herald, January 3, 2007 

McFarlane, Robert; ‘Cool images from below and above’, The Sydney Morning Herald, November30, 2004

McFarlane, Robert; ‘Images of humanity in a changing eye’, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 26, 2003

McFarlane, Robert; ‘The identity parade that doesn’t click’, The Sydney Morning Herald,February 2002

McFarlane, Robert; ‘Images for the head, not the heart’, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 5, 2002

Miles, Melissa; ‘The Line Between Us: The maternal relation in contemporary photography’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, #56, March 2005, pp 50-51

Nelson, Robert; ‘Rural Stories’, The Age, Sightlines, October 14, 2005

Nelson, Robert; ‘Sight caught in grainy hues and icy detail’, The Age, April 6, 2006

Nelson, Robert; ‘Lives snapped and laid bare’, The Age, August 4, 1999

Rule, Dan; ‘In the Galleries’, The Age, January 15, 2011, Arts and entertainment, p.5

Smee, Sebastian; ‘A cool spot when the heat is on’, The Australian, October 28,2006 

Spencer, Megan; ‘Over the road, across the bridge’, Bendigo Weekly, December 10, 2011,p.5

Spencer, Megan; ‘The Hungry Eye’, Bendigo Weekly, January 14, 2011, p.7

Spencer, Megan, ‘Locked and loaded’, Bendigo Weekly, 26th August 2011.

Strickland, Katrina; ‘Raw images via a maternal lens’, The Australian, September 30,2004 

Unknown; If You Do One Thing, ‘Rural Retrospective’, The Age, October 3, 2005

Unknown; Not Only Black + White, ‘Mixed media: Where the art is’, Issue 47, November2000

Webb, Penny; ‘Hang it; position matters’, The Age, February 10, 2007

Westphale, Kerstin; ‘The Line Between Us’, Kunststoff, Issue 1/05, Germany

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

VogueItalia: 7 June 2017

https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/news/2017/06/07/lumina-collettivo-fotografico-australiano-fondato-da-otto-artiste

Fisheye, France, 2018: [interview by Lou Tsatsis]

https://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/en/scheduled/portfolios/donna-bailey-maternal-instinct/

Le Monde, Paris, 

Case da Abitare, Italy, 

Gente Di Fotografia, Italy,