Sue Ford: Self portrait with camera, 1965
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 SUE FORD Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012/13 Sue Ford: Time machine, La Trobe Regional Gallery Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Bundoora Homestead, Horsham Regional Gallery
2011 Sue Ford: Time machine Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne
2009 Somewhere in France 1917 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2008 ST Kilda Series Rupert Bunny Foundation commission City of Port Philip
2007 Last Light ARC One Gallery Melbourne
2004 Continuum Watter's Gallery Sydney
2003 Continuum ARC One Gallery Melbourne
2002 Shadow Portraits ARC One-Span Melbourne
1999 Somewhere in France 1917 Watter's Gallery Sydney
1999 Somewhere in France 1917 Parliament House ACT
1997 Faces 1976-1996 Multi Screen Projection Australian Centre for Photography NSW
1995 Sue Ford: A Survey 1960-1995 Monash University Gallery Melbourne
1995 The Wonder Book of Empire Watter's Gallery Sydney
1994 Time Surfaces National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
1992/3 From Van Diemen's Land to Video Land Niagara Galleries Melbourne, Canberra School of Art Gallery ACT, Institute of Contemporary Art Brisbane
1992 The Witches Letter National Gallery of Australia ACT
1989 A Different Landscape Tiwi Museum Bathurst Island Northern Territory
1989 Sue Ford : A Different Landscape Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
1989 Sue Ford : A Different Landscape Aborigines' Advancement League Northcote
1988 A Sixtieth of a Second National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
1983 Paintings Watter's Gallery Sydney
1982 The Photobook of Women: 1961-1982 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Portraits of Women 1961 - 1982 Axiom Gallery Melbourne
1975 Time Series I Australian Centre for Photography Sydney
1974Time Series I National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Brummels' Pentax Gallery Melbourne
1971 Metamorphoses Series I: Suburban Series II Hawthorn City Art Gallery Melbourne, Metamorphoses Series I The 'Yellow House' Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Photography 130 - Behind the Lens: 130 years of RMIT Photography RMIT University
2015 The photograph and Australia Art Gallery of NSW
2014 Photography meets Feminism Australian women photographers 1970's-80's Monash Gallery of Art
2011 What's in a face? Art Gallery of NSW
2011 Brummels: Australia's first gallery of photography Monash Gallery of Art
2011 A Different Temporality Monash University Museum of Art
2010 Imaging the Apple AC Institute New York USA
2010 Mortality Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne
2007 Truth and Likeness National Portrait Gallery Canberra
2006 Photographic Portrait Prize Art Gallery of NSW
2006 Magic Realism Art Gallery of NSW
2006 City of Port Phillip Art Collection Linden Gallery Melbourne
2005 The Altered Landscape The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2003 Second Sight The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2004 Remembrance - Faces 1976-1996 Multiscreen Screen Installation, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne
2003 Remembrance - Mind of Tibet Multiscreen Installation in Collaboration with Geshe Sonam Thargye, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne
2002 Fieldwork The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2002 Eye for Idea A Decade of Australian Women Directors Experimenting with Form Berlin Film Festival Germany
2000 Mirror With a Memory Photographic Portraiture in Australia National Portrait Gallery Canberra
2001World Without End Photography in the Twentieth Century Art Gallery of NSW
1999 Persona Institute of Modern Art Brisbane
1999 Clemenger Art Award Museum of Modern Art at Heide
1998 Faces 1976-1996 & Time Series Queensland Art Gallery
1997 I Had a Dream Australia in the Nineteen Sixties National Gallery of Victoria
1997 Screen Installation Monash University Gallery of Art
1996 Colonial-Post-Colonial Museum of Modern Art at Heide
1995 Director's Choice National Gallery of Australia. Territory Pictures Museum of the Northern Territory Darwin, Power to Move Queensland Art Gallery
1994 Pictograms: Aspects of Contemporary Photographic Practice touring exhibition Australia
1991 The Intimate Experience Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney
1990 Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers National Gallery of Victoria touring AGNSW and QLD Art Gallery, From The Empire's End: Nine Australian and Spanish Photographers touring exhibition Spain and Australia, Time Changes (1976) Film Screenings: Sue Ford and Carol Jerrem's Australian Centre for Photography Sydney
1989 Portrait Photography National Gallery of Australia Canberra
1988 A Sixtieth of a Second Australian Centre for Photography Sydney
1988 Interventions The Performance Space Sydney
1988 The Thousand Mile Stare Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne, Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 19839-1988 National Gallery of Victoria
1987 Living in the 70s Australian Photographs National Gallery of Australia Canberra
1983 Continuum 83 Tokyo Art Gallery Tokyo Japan, A Decade of Australian Photography 1972-1982 Australian National Gallery Canberra
1982 Time Series II Vision in Disbelief Biennale of Sydney
1981 George Paton Gallery Melbourne
1980 Self Portrait Self Image Victorian College of the Arts Gallery Melbourne
1977 Adelaide Arts Festival South Australia
1976 Modern Australian Photographs National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
1975Three Photographers Abraxas Gallery Canberra, Jam Factory Adelaide, Australian Centre for Photography Sydney
1974 Time Series I Abraxas Gallery Canberra, My Faces George Paton Gallery Melbourne, Boyfriends Prahran Gallery Melbourne, Time Series I Australian Centre for Photography Sydney
1964 Museum of Modern Art Melbourne
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2008 City of Port Phillip Commission
2004/6Australia Council Fellowship
2002 Melbourne City Council Grant - Continuum large-scale digital prints
2002 Arts Victoria Grant - Continuum a new series of large-scale digital prints
2002 Multimedia Artists Profile on touchscreens The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2000/3Australian Centre for the Moving Image Commission curated by Ross Gibson for Remembrance, Mind of Tibet - multiscreen video installation in collaboration with Geshe Sonam Thargye
2000/3Faces 1976-1996- multiscreen video installation Australian Centre for the Moving Image
1999 Somewhere in France 1917- 34 offset prints published in a Limited Edition of 500
1999 Australian Council of the Arts- Residency Bessozo Italy
1997 Best Film St. Kilda Film Festival
1997 Best Short Film ATOM Awards
1997 Best Australian Film Erwin Rado Award Melbourne International Film Festival
1997 AFI Nomination Faces 1976-1996
1996 Australian Film Commission Film production Faces 1976-1996
1992 Victorian Arts Board Development Grant
1987 Victorian Council of the Arts Fellowship in Photography
1987 A Sixtieth of a Second published by Experimental Art Foundation South Australia
1982 Visual Arts Board (Australia Council) Development Grant
1975 Australian Film Commission Film production Time Changes
1973/4 llford Scholarship for Post-graduate Study Victorian College of the Arts
1970 Australian Film Institute Film production Woman in a House
COLLECTIONS
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
State Library of Victoria
State Library of New South Wales
National Library Canberra
Aborigines Advancement League Northcote
City of Port Philip
Art Bank
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
City of Melbourne
Waverley City Collection
Private collections
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Helen Ennis Unsettling, conferance paper, University of Longborough, UK
2012 Virginia Fraser Time Out-A Different Temporality, MUMA, Art Monthly, 247 March 2012
2011 Judy Annear Why photograph people? Artlink Vol. 31 No. 3, pp36-38
2011 Sue Ford Self-portrait with camera (1960-2006) Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne
2011 Helen Ennis Sue Ford's History Art Journal of the National Gallery of Australia 50
2011 Gael Newton Shadow Play Artonview National Gallery of Australia Autumn 2011/65
2011 Anne Ferran Faces Catalogue essay A Different Temporality MUMA pp46-53
2010 Anne Marsh Look Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980 Melbourne
2007 Judy Annear (editor) Photography Art Gallery of NSW Collection pp 193, 205, 241, 257
2004 Zara Stanhope What’s Mine is Yours Feature Article Artlink Magazine, Vol 24 no. 3
2003 Ross Gibson Remembrance and the Moving Image Catalogue Essay ACMI Melbourne
2003 Isobel Crombie and Susan Van Wyke Second Sight Catalogue Essay The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2002 Kate Rhodes Fieldwork Catalogue Essay The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2002 Susan Van Wyke multi media touch screen text The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
2001 World Without End: Photography and the Twentieth Century Catalogue Art Gallery of New South Wales
2000 Judy Annear World Without End Photography and the Twentieth Century Art Gallery of New South Wales., Kurt Brereton Photo-Discourse essay in What is this thing called Photography 1975-1985 (J.Annear & E.Macdonald eds.)
1999Isobel Crombie Somewhere in France 1917 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Museum of Modern Art at Heide
1997Jenepher Duncan Screen Catalogue Monash University Gallery Melbourne
1996Zara Stanhope Recovering Lost Ground Catalogue Colonial Post-Colonial Museum of Modern Art at Heide
1996 Donald Williams & Colin Simpson Art Now Contemporary Art Post 1970 Book Two McGraw-Hill
1995 Helen Ennis Past/Present Catalogue - Sue Ford A Survey 1960-1995 Monash University Gallery Melbourne
1995 Virginia Fraser Collaborations at the Borderline Catalogue - Sue Ford A Survey 1960-1995 Monash University Gallery Melbourne
1995 Gael Newton The Movement of Women Art & Australia Spring 1995
1994 Catriona Moore Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography Allen & Unwin Sydney
1992 George Alexander Glitches or Falling off the Face of the Earth
Ewen McDonald and Juliana Engberg (eds.) Binocular: Focusing Time Moet & Chandon Contemporary Edition
1992 Anne Marsh Myths and Narratives Art Monthly March
1990 Janine Burke Field of Vision Penguin Books
1988 Gael Newton Shades of Light Australian National Gallery Canberra
1980 Jenepher Duncan (ed.) Women and Art: Into the Eighties Monash University Melbourne
1978 Geoffrey De Groen Conversations with Australian Artists
1965 Fire and Clay: The Craft of Peter and Helen Laycock (Photographs) Melbourn
BIOGRAPHY
Sue Ford (b.1943-2009)
Sue Ford was one of the most important practitioners in the wave of 1970’s Australian Feminist photographers. She regularly took pictures of friends and family for social and political ends frequently turning the camera on herself. Ford’s raw, simple and personal photographic style was both pragmatic and experimental.
In 1961 Sue worked from a small studio above Ninky's Tea & Coffee house in Little Collins St.,Melbourne. Post her studies in photography at RMIT in 1962 Ford began to invest her practice with the theory that photography was art and not a technical product. This led to a major solo exhibition, Tide Recedes, at Hawthorn City Art Gallery in 1971 and the now famous Time Series solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and Brummels Gallery in 1974.
Fords art practice continued with significant achievements including solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1982, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1988 and 1994. In 1995 the exhibition Sue Ford: A Survey 1960-1995, curated by Helen Ennis was held at the Monash University Gallery.
Paralleling Fords photographic work was her film and video making that began in 1970 with Low Deposit Easy Terms. The iconic film Faces 1976-1996 made with her son Ben featured as an installation at the opening of ACMI, Melbourne in 2003 and was awarded the Best Australian Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 1997.
Dr. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography, NGV credits Ford with ''breaking significant ground in photomedia work in Australia throughout the later part of the 20thcentury''.
In 2004 Sue Ford received the Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship to begin theprocess of cataloguing her extensive photographic archive. Since 2010 Joy Hirst and Ben Ford have continued this work, identifying, catologuing, digitising and housing 1000's ofnegatives and art works, most of which have not been published or exhibited.
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