About me
i am a multidisciplinary artist who’s practice incorporates photography, video and installation. my work explores the material properties of analogue and digital image making, often finding failures within these systems and pushing them to the brink. i am also interested in the reduction of photography to its most basic properties - surface, light and duration - and regularly attempt to push the definition of photography as far as possible from its traditional Interpretation.
my practice is based in naarm (melbourne), Australia on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation.
i pay my respect to elders past, present and emerging.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
fragments, res artis project space, melbourne
2023
2021
Split, Photo Access, Canberra
The Cowboy, Photo Access, Canberra
Screen Time, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2020
Tessellate, St Heliers Gallery, Melbourne
2019
2018
SWEAT, TROCADERO, Melbourne
Man-Made, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
I Feel Like I Know You, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2017
2015
Leftovers, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
feedback, renew docklands projection project, melbourne
2022
2020
My Funny Valentine, Missing Persons, Melbourne
2018
Interface, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
In Situ, Maud Creative, Brisbane
2016
Photo Contemporary, Rahleigh Studios, Los Angeles
photo l.a., L.A. Mart, Los Angeles
2015
West 35th and 8th, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane
Derive, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
A2B, White Canvas Gallery, Brisbane
2014
2high Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
Interscapes, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
2013
2012
First Impressions, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Awards and grants
2023
winner of mullins conceptual photography prize
2020
City of Melbourne COVID-19 Quick Response Grant
2017
RMIT Creative Funding Grant
2016
Winner IRIS Award
Winner of People's Choice Award - Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize
2015
Runner Up Australian Student Photographer of the Year 2014, Capture Magazine
2014
Collections
Muswellbrook regional arts centre
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection
Macquarie Group Collection
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library -Yale University
Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive
publications
2017
Into the Undergrowth, Aint Bad
Leftovers, Capture Magazine Online Projects (March)
The Howling Tasman Wind, Terratory Journal
2016
By The Way, Lensculture feature
LA Focus // Chris Bowes, Lucida Magazine
2015
Money Talks, self-published softcover
ARGUS: Volume II by The ARGUS
Money, Runway Issue #25
Australia's Top Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine May/June
What is South Bohemia in the eyes of Australian Artists?, Kulturne.com
Interview: Chris Bowes, Lucida Magazine
2014
education
Honours in Fine Art (First Class)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2017
Bachelor of Photography
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2015