Familial – presented by CCP

Familial is a Centre for Contemporary Photography exhibition, presented in partnership with Town Hall Gallery at Hawthorn Arts Centre and the City of Boroondara.

Familial brings together six artists from around the world whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family - of parents and children, of unbreakable bonds, tenderness, and the enduring ache of absence. Accessible and simple in its approach, Familial allows us to see sons and daughters photographing parents, and inversely, parents photographing their children, sometimes slowly over decades and sometimes with urgency.

This exhibition explores the complexity of familial connections through presence and loss, in a meditation on love, longing and the essential imprints our closest relationships leave behind.

Open:
Mon-Fri 9-5
Sat 12-4

Featured Artists

  • Taysir Batniji

  • EJ Hassan

  • Nur Aishah Kenton

  • Mariela Sancari

  • Abigail Varney

  • Annie Wang

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November

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Sydney: 03 March – 26 March 2026. NSW at Night is a photography exhibition offering a glimpse into life after dark across New South Wales, through the people, places and rhythms that shape it.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

Melbourne: 13 – 22 March 2026. Award-winning photographers Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach invite you to explore the city as a living, shifting experience.

April

Sydney: 9 April event 6-9pm. Unfinished is a free event to show/see photo-based work in progress or recently completed personal projects run by photographers for photographers.