Lost in Palm Springs

Kate Ballis
23502017
Archival pigment ink on cotton rag
103 x 153 cm
Image courtesy of the artist

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.

Lost in Palm Springs combines recognised photographers and thinkers from America and Australia, all curious, drawn to unbridled beauty, intense landscapes, and romantic notions of isolation, equally drawn to where ideas of place and home shape society and the architecture in which we live.

Post-war Australia and America shared a dream, naming it here ‘the great Australian dream’, the idea was the same across the two nations: to create as many affordable homes as possible for the developing middle class in order to reinvigorate the post-war economy.

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May

Perth: From 31 May – 28 Sept 2025. Featuring 85 works from three major series – Deep Springs, Overpass, and Cross Country – the exhibition spans twelve years of Contis’s evolving photographic practice.

June

Adelaide: 7 June – 16 August. Drawn from the National Portrait Gallery collection, this photographic exhibition captures the experience of lives lived through dance.