Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award

Image credit: © Justine Varga ‘Marking Time’ (2016). Type C hand print, 122 x 98.5cm Courtesy of Stills Gallery, Sydney and Hugo Michell Gallery

A big congratulations to Justine Varga for her second win of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, hosted by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery. Varga created the spectacular photogram without the aid of a camera. Check out Stills Gallery and Hugo Michell Gallery for more of the artist's work. Justine was also featured in our April 2016 issue.

Caitlin Seymour-King

Behind Your Eyes, Between Your Ears: Neurofeedback portrait project

Image: Behind Your Eyes, Between Your Ears: Neurofeedback portrait studio, George Gnut with David Morris-Oliveros, Performance Space, Carriageworks, 2015. Photography Amanda James

Head down to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and watch this amazing interactive artwork being made by UNSW Art & Design researcher, Dr George Khut. 'Behind Your Eyes, In Between Your Ears' is an ongoing digital portraiture project where Khut experiments with biomedical technology to visualise the brainwaves of his subjects. His interest is in mapping the space between thinking and being, through light and soundscape. On display until 17th July!

Head to the website for more info on the project. http://www.georgekhut.com/behind-your-eyes-between-your-ears/

Caitlin Seymour-King 

Colonial Imperialsim and Indigenous History

Greg Semu, The Arrival, diptych, 2014–15
type-C photograph, 126.5 x 168.7cm (image and sheet);
Collection of the artist, Sydney;
image courtesy Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne; © Greg Semu

Check out Greg Semu's 'The Arrival, Diptych', at the National Gallery of Victoria, on until 11 September. In this large-scale photographic series, Greg Semu explores issues of colonial imperialistic representations of indigenous histories. Semu poignantly re-positions two hallmark works: 'The Arrival of the Maori's in New Zealand' by Louis John Steele and Charles F. Goldie of 1898, and its predecessor, 'The Raft of the Medusa' from Théodore Géricault in 1819. Read Dylan Rainforth's interview with the artist in our current June/July Pacific issue.

Caitlin Seymour-King