A career-spanning exhibition of Australian photography pioneer Sue Ford will open at the NGV in Melbourne in April.
Sue Ford's work returns to the National Gallery of Victoria in celebration of her artistic career and contribution to Australian photo media. Offering a rare perspective on Ford's extensive catalogue, this temporary exhibition brings together key photographs, digital prints, collages and films created over-a fifty year period.
Ford was a key figure in feminist Australia in the 1970s, whose work dealt passionately with indigenous heritage, gender issues and the advocacy and promotion of women in the Australian artistic landscape. Inspired by "the politics of representation", her use of different photographic and multimedia techniques can be seen in her portraiture of the female form, depictions of innocuous urbanity and her fascination with light and shadow.
Ford was the first Australian photographer to have a solo exhibition at the NGV in 1974.
The Sue Ford Exhibition will be showing free at the NGV's Ian Potter Centre, Level 2, Federation Square, Melbourne from 17 April to 24 August. 
Annette, 1962. From the Time series (1962-74). Photo by Sue Ford. Gelatin silver photograph. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with the assistance of the Visual Arts Board and the Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd Fund, 1974. © Courtesy of the artist.
No title (photogram of two hands and garden path), c. 1970. Photo by Sue Ford. Gelatin silver photograph. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Gerstl Bequest, 2000.© Courtesy of the artist.