Simone Douglas

Research

Simone Douglas has been exhibiting since the late 1980s and works across photomedia, video and installation. She has also curated numerous exhibitions.

Her photographs have been exhibited at and are held in numerous collections including the V&A Museum, London, the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and the National Gallery Of Victoria. In addition they have also been exhibited at the Photographers Gallery, London, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, among others. She was project director and curator for Picture Sydney: landmarks of a new generation at the Australian Museum; has been a guest scholar at Köln International School of Design; initiated the international art and design collective Conjecture and served as a Director at firstdraft Gallery, Sydney.

The key area of her recent research is to develop a contemporary understanding of, and visual response to, the photographic in relation to the sublime, excess and immateriality. Douglas’s research takes the knowledge and certainty as expressed in historic and contemporary readings of the photographic as a counterpoint to her visual work, as it seeks to explore a slippage in visual certainty in the photographic image. It is a re-evaluation of the 'sublime' and the visual uncertainty of the photographic.

Douglas currently lectures at Parsons the New School of Design, New School University, New York in the graduate and undergraduate programs.

Simone Douglas is represented by Artereal in Sydney, and Vassie Galleries in Amsterdam.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Simone Douglas, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2007

Flight Of The Eye, PII Gallery, Philadelphia International Institute, Philadelphia, 2006-07

Sky Of The Skies, Artereal, Sydney, 2006

Vanishing Point II, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2003

Stasis (Blind), firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, 1999

An Uncertain Exchange, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, 1996

Aberrations, The Photographers Gallery, London,1994



Selected Group Exhibitions

Light, Artereal, Sydney, 2007

Beautiful Decay, Loose Projects, Sydney, 2006

Zero, Te Manawa, Palmerston North; The Suter, Nelson Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill, New Zealand, 2006-07

Sightseeing, CAFA Gallery Beijing; SCA, Sydney, 2004-05

First Impressions, Ian Potter Centre, The National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003

Minimal, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2000

Harmonia, Next Wave Festival, West Space, Melbourne, 2000

Vanishing Point, Blau Grau, Sydney, 2000

Silver, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2000

Every (Other) Day, firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, 2000

Landscape, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 1999

Memory/The Natural World, University of NSW, Sydney, 1998

Passage, 4A Gallery, Sydney, 1998

Photography Is Dead! Long Live Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1996-7

Our Mothers, Biennial In Paris, Month Of The Photo, Espace Commines, Paris, 1996-7

Simone Douglas, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Judith Ahearn, Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney, 1996-7

Recent Acquisitions, Victorian and Albert Museum, London, 1995

Key Publications

Keynote essay and image editor, Picture Sydney; landmarks of a new generation, The Australian Museum, 1999

Esdlers, V., Our Mothers, Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc. New York, 1998

Cavernett, W., Aberrant Art, (not only) black+white magazine no.31, 1998

Awards & Grants

2007 IDF grant Exquisite Corpse
2004 IDF grant Conjecture
2001- 2003 Visiting Scholar, Cologne Institute for Design, Cologne
2000 NSW Heritage Council: Runner Up, Government Publication of the Year Award for Picture Sydney; landmarks of a new generation, the Australia Museum, Sydney

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