In Conversation with Morganna Magee, Georgia Metaxas & Vanessa Winship

31 August,  7pm- 8:30 pm

This is an online event

Morganna Magee, Georgia Metaxas and Vanessa Winship’s works are in dialogue as part of CCP’s winter exhibition ‘Walking Through the Darkness’ (21 July – 10 September 2023). Their recent projects speak to ideas of journeying and memory, and the symbolic power of the landscape.

In this informal ‘in conversation’, Magee, Metaxas and Winship, will discuss and reflect on the commonalities between their practices.

This event is kindly supported by RMIT and will be jointly convened by Alison Bennet (Associate Dean, Photography, RMIT) and Catlin Langford (CCP Curator).

The event will be held online at the following times:

7pm, Melbourne

10am, London

Please sign up for this event here > 

Morganna Magee is a based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations,  the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her practice explores human relations to the non-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways. Her work has been awarded and exhibited both nationally and internationally by institutions such as The British Journal of Photography, The National Portrait gallery Australia and Miami Art week.  She is part of Tall Poppy Press with Matt Dunne, with whom she recently published her new work ‘Beware of People Who Dislike Cats’.

Georgia Metaxas is an Australian photographer based in London. Her work sits within a documentary framework, aspects acknowledging her interest in documentary photography and the tension found between ‘artistic’ intent and documentary purpose. Portraiture is at the core of her work and is examined predominantly through universal rituals and gestures. Metaxas has exhibited throughout Australia and abroad including China, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Her work is held in public collections including Artbank, MAPh, City of Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and The State Library of Victoria.

Vanessa Winship is a British photographer who has established a lauded career for her long-term documentary projects that focus on portrait, landscape and reportage. She was the first woman to win the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson (HCB) award in 2011 and is currently nominated for the 2023 Prix Pictet prize. Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including Tate Britain, Nelson Atkins Museum and Fundacion Mapfre and has been exhibited internationally including a survey exhibition at the Barbican, London in 2018. Her recent publication Snow was released with Deadbeat Club in 2022.