Exhibition launch

Our first exhibition of 2026 is hosted by our presenting partners:

Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Town Hall, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122. Visitor Information

‘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. Presented by the Centre for Contemporary Photography, this exhibition explores the complexity of familial connections through presence and loss, in a meditation on love and longing and the essential imprints our closest relationships leave behind.

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. To photograph another person is to know them differently, to see them afresh; and to see the images made by a parent or an offspring is to see the world anew, through their eyes.

Featuring: Taysir Batniji, EJ Hassan, Nur Aishah Kenton, Mariela Sancari, Abigail Varney and Annie Wang.

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Join us at 1pm on Saturday February 14th for a free curatorial tour of the exhibition. Curator and CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith will be accompanied by special guests and artists introducing their work.

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This exhibition is supported by:

This exhibition is supported by our Major Partners for 2026 Spicers Australia and HC Pro. All works in this exhibition have been printed on Spicers Products or Hahnemühle Fine Art Paper, by HCPro, Colour Factory, Final Grade Printing. All posters and postcards printed by HCPro and supplied by Spicers Australia.