Exhibition Openings: UK Frederick and Judith MacDougall
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Join us for the opening of The Camera Unrepair Shop by Uk Frederick and The Texans 1972-73, This is not Movie by Judith MacDougall
Date: Thursday, 14 August
Time: 6-8pm
Event artists
UK Frederick
I am an artist and academic working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra, Australia). My primary modes of art practice are photography, printmaking and video. As an archaeologist, my art practice is informed by my interests in material culture and the way people interact with each other and their worlds.
I work as a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra (UC).
Judith MacDougall
Judith MacDougall is a filmmaker and photographer. She is internationally acknowledged as a defining figure in the development of Ethnographic Documentary Film. After graduating from San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA Film School Judith made documentaries in Uganda and the USA. In 1972 Judith resumed her stills photography at the newly established Rice University Media Centre in Houston Texas. Photographer and teacher Geoff Winningham invited numerous contemporary photographers to the Centre, including Garry Winogrand, Eve Sonneman, Lee Friedlander and Danny Lyon. It was within this artistic milieu that MacDougall applied a background in observational cinema to her photographic studies of 1970’s Texas. In the following decades Judith made over 20 ethnographic documentary films, including the prize-winning ‘Turkana Conversations’ trilogy (1972-73), The House-Opening (1977), Photo Wallahs (1991), Diya (2001) and The Art of Regret (2007). She has taught in Australia, Norway, Italy and China. Judith lives in Canberra, Australia.
