Anne Ferran: Shadow Land

The largest exhibition of the works of respected Australian photomedia artist Anne Ferran will go on show at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) from 8 November 2014 to 18 January 2015.

Shadow Land includes a selection of photographic, textile, video and text works from Ferran’s most significant projects and series that span a career of almost 30 years.

The exhibition comprises her early, landmark series Carnal Knowledge (1984) and Scenes on the Death of Nature (1986). Also included is more recent work including Box of Birds (2013) and the artist book Prison Library (2014). Shadow Land is also accompanied by a publication of the same name  produced by the University of Sydney's Power Publications.

Ferran’s images explore, "the residues of Australia and New Zealand’s colonial histories, observing their gaps and silences and what else they reveal."

Anne Ferran has been a leading figure in photomedia since the 1980s and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria, amongst others.

The ACP is located at 257 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW.
 
Anne Ferran is represented by Stills Gallery, Sydney and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.


Scenes on the Death of Nature, Scene III, 1986. Image by Anne Ferran. Courtesy The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth, and the artist.


Scenes on the Death of Nature, Scene V, 1986. Image by Anne Ferran. Courtesy The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth, and the artist.


Carnal Knowledge, Untitled (no. 12), 1984. Image by Anne Ferran. Courtesy and © the artist.