Dark Matter 2024:
Rozalind Drummond, Claire Paul, Phoebe Kelly and Sari Sutton

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photo access Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre

Phoebe Kelly, from the series 'Two Suns', 2024

Exhibition Overview

This exhibition showcases the work of our 2024 Dark Matter Residents: Rozalind Drummond, Phoebe Kelly, Claire Paul, and Sari Sutton. Over the past year, these artists have been working in the photo access darkroom, experimenting with materials and methods of image-making that challenge and expand the perceived boundaries of photography.

Rozalind’s photography, video, and performance practice explores landscape and place, capturing fleeting environments to imagine new possibilities in site-specific works. Phoebe’s series of silver gelatin prints, drawn from smartphone images, explore and unsettle the space between the analogue and digital. Claire employs long-exposure pinhole photography and foraging practices to create images that embrace unpredictability and collaboration with the natural world. Sari’s work delves into the invisible forces driving the expansion of the universe, evoking celestial landscapes through her experimental darkroom techniques.

Exhibition Catalogue

Exhibition artists

Claire Paul

Emerging artist Claire Paul uniquely combines long-exposure photography, foraging, and screen-printing, fostering a mindful connection with the environment through her deeply ecological art practice.

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Black and white photograph of a young woman smiling and holding a film camera in front of her chest against a bush backdrop

Phoebe Kelly

Phoebe Kelly is visual artist and photographer living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). She uses photography, casting and processes of material transferral to investigate the potential of translating the intangible into the physical.

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Black and white photograph of a woman with a camera in her hand standing in a field of long grass, with open sky and trees in the background.

Sari Sutton

Sari Sutton is a Canberra-based photographer exploring human impact on Earth, and related social, economic, and environmental themes through diverse styles.

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Portrait of a middle-aged woman in glasses caught in mid-speech, looking downwards and gesticulating with her hand

Rozalind Drummond

Rozalind Drummond is a Melbourne based artist. Working across expanded photographic practice, performative action and video, her practice is essentially an exploration of spatial and natural environments.

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Black and white selfie photograph of a woman in a jumper and smiling

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Dark Matter 2024

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Artists experimenting in darkroom-based and alternative processes

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