Danica Chappell

Danica Chappell is a visual artist working on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri in Naarm (Melbourne). In her darkroom studio, Danica draws from a slow, thoughtful exchange between matter and action to explore processes of photography. The darkroom invites the plasticity of time and welcomes a slip of form from its convention. Here the viewer’s perception is held to consider abstraction and the cameraless activity undertaken between light and light-sensitivity.

In recent years Danica’s work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions including – Colour Bleeds and Light Folds 2023, Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now 2023, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington In., USA, Thickness of Time at Heide III MoMA Project Gallery 2018-19, New Matter: Recent Forms of Photography 2016, AGNSW Sydney, Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph 2016, Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth NZ and recently completed commissioned installations include Slippery Images 2023 for NGV’s Melbourne Now and Far From The Eye 2021 for PHOTO2021.

Danica is represented by Sous Les Etoiles, New York USA