Exhibition Opening: Dark Matter 2025
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Join us for the opening of Dark Matter 2025 to celebrate the work of our 2025 Dark Matter Residents Joshua Catanzariti, Danica Chappell, Kristian Häggblom and Bingham Thurgate.
Date: Thursday, 23 October
Time: 6-8pm
Event artists
Danica Chappell
Danica’s work has exhibited widely in various settings 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 recent completed commissioned installations include ‘Slippery Images’ 2023 for NGV’s Melbourne Now and ‘Far From The Eye’ 2021 for PHOTO2021.
In 2025 Danica was a photo access Dark Matter resident and this year she is the inaugural Australian Tapestry Workshop and Linden New Art mid-career artist in residence.
Danica is represented by Sous Les Etoiles, New York USA.
Joshua Catanzariti
Joshua is an emerging artist based in Canberra, Australia. Graduating from the University of Canberra in 2021 with a Bachelor of the Built Environment in Interior Architecture. His artistic practice explores the themes of space, perception, abstraction and dreams, often manifested through installations and photo media.
Since graduation, he has actively participated in the local and international art scene, undertaking residencies in Japan at both Studio Kura (Itoshima) and Space Department (Nara) in 2023. His work has also been featured in group shows in Japan and Australia, including Concurrent Gallery in Canberra, Skyroof during Fuji Textile Week, and the Itoshima Art Farm expo. His early work was recognised with a win in the 2021 Ainslie Av Bus Shelter Design Competition.
Kristian Häggblom
Dr Kristian Häggblom is an artist, academic, independent curator and photobook collector who works with conceptual documentary and expanded modes of photography that have included/combined sound, collected objects, video, text, publishing, performance and commissioned production. He completed his undergraduate studies in 1997 (RMIT) and his PhD, titled Viewing Platforms, in 2014 (Monash University). He has worked extensively in Japan and undertaken an Australia Council for the Arts artist-in-residence on Suomenlinna in Finland. His work has been exhibited internationally including exhibitions in Australia, Japan, America, India, Mexico, India and Switzerland and is held in substantial collections. Häggblom established the image-text project Two Inadequate Voices and is working on a collaborative exhibition and associated symposia between Kuwait, Japan and Australia titled Speculative Horizons. He is presently the Higher Education Course Director at Photography Studies College, Melbourne.
Bingham Thurgate
Bingham Thurgate is a Melbourne/Naarm photographic-based artist exploring the connectivity of personal truth and environmental relationships aroused by both external and internal immersion. Nodding to the experience of sentience, his works interweave as manifestations of an intuitive response to one’s internal and external landscapes. The environments and experiences of the familiar, new or old, act as mirrors or doors as means to understand these feelings and how they relate to our perception and identity.
Since graduating with a Diploma of Photography and Digital Imaging from NCAT Preston in 2022 his work has been exhibited in various group exhibitions around Melbourne/Naarm.
