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

Canberra: Until 1 March 2026. Women photographers 1853–2018 highlights the transformative impact of women artists on the history of photography.

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.

December

Sydney: 4 Dec – 30 Jan 2026. The project brings together around 70 images over 50 metres of wall space, profiling a wide spectrum of practical action on climate

February

Perth: 1 Feb – 1 March 2026. Head On Photo Festival is expanding its footprint to Western Australia, with an outdoor and indoor festival program running from Sunday 1 February to Sunday 1 March 2026.

March

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