Opening | Formality

We are pleased to invite you all to the opening of ‘Formality’ on Saturday 22nd March at 4pm at Trocadero Art Space. 

Curated by one of WPG's very own advisers, Paul Batt, ‘Formality’ runs from 19th March – 5th April and explores a variety of photographic approaches to the figure with in contemporary Australian photographic practice.

'Formality' includes work from Paul Batt, Daniel Boetker-Smith, Ross Coulter, Siri Hayes, Kristian Häggblom, Katrin Koenning and Georgia Metaxas.

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Wallflower Structure Reshuffle & Curatorial Advisory Group | Katrin Koenning & Paul Batt

Wallflower Photomedia Gallery is thrilled to announce the establishment of a curatorial advisory group as part of our structural change for the 2014 year. Paul Batt and Katrin Koenning will be joining the WPG family, bringing to the gallery their particular specialties, experience and knowledge. Their ideas will be key contributions to the program through discussion and decisions on the correct course of the exhibition schedule and satellite projects including extended engagement through interviews and public programs. In addition to these activities, both advisors will also be curating a project within the 2014/2015 calendar.

Our 2012/2013 curator Kristian Häggblom will be moving to a directorial role and the assistant curator for the 2013 program, Moana Kidd, will be taking on the role under the newly appointed advisory team. 

Katrin Koenning

Katrin Koenning is a German-born photographer who currently lives and works in Melbourne. Her work is exhibited widely and has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, GUP Magazine and Der Spiegel Magazine amongst others. Koenning has won a number of awards and is a former editor of the PhotoJournalist Magazine (APJ). She is represented by Edmund Pearce Gallery. 

http://www.katrinkoenning.com

Paul Batt

Exhibited widely throughout Australia in both group and solo exhibitions, Batt is a Melbourne-based photographer. He has received numerous national photography prizes and awards with work featured in a number of national and international publications and is held in significant public collections.

http://www.paulbatt.com

Curatorial Detail & Preview | Katrin Koenning

Katrin Koenning is a German-born photographer now based in Melbourne. Her work was first brought to my attention through a group exhibition titled STILL that we were both involved in at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne. Katrin exhibited work from the series Thirteen: Twenty Lacuna:

“…I came across this place in the Melbourne CBD. Light reaches it directly for only 20 minutes a day, around lunchtime, when people rush away from work to get sandwiches and coffees. During these few minutes, a transformation happens – faces are illuminated, dust twirls through rays of sun, cigarette smoke becomes an almost glistening silver- blue against dark buildings… It's a 'mis-en-scene', a theatre stage on which people become my protagonists for an instant…”

Katrin’s photography is about the ordinary, the everyday, place and belonging. Her translation of the creek’s “voice” began with a series of questions; who slept by your side in disillusion? Who made that fire in the underpass? Like others involved, Katrin started to collect and the result is the work Tin Taxi Sex-Note – Kororoit Collectibles made up of direct scans from her shit creek collection.

www.katrinkoenning.com

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