My Father’s Runners by Annette Ruzicka

In her debut solo exhibition, SUNSTUDIOS Emerging Photographer Award winner (2017) Annette Ruzicka begins uncovering a very personal story - beginning with a pair of new shoes found at the scene of her father’s death.

© Annette Ruzicka, from the series,
© Annette Ruzicka, from the series, "My Father’s Runners".

My Father’s Runners melds the past and the present to explore the impact of violence and buried trauma on generations that follow. Focusing on the reality of what happened to her own family, and told in her own words, Ruzicka’s account of tragedy and strength is wide-open and all-too familiar for countless families throughout Australia.

 A small detail in big story, buried for almost thirty years.

Opening Night: 6pm - 9pm, Thursday, 20 September.

© Annette Ruzicka, from the series,
© Annette Ruzicka, from the series, "My Father’s Runners".

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.