| 2025 @ | ~ Text/Exhibition: “Myths of the American West,” on the exhibition Richard Avedon ‘In The American West’ 1979-1984 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, April – October, 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Sleeping Beauty,” on the exhibition Ricorati di me. I post mortem della collezione M. G. Jacob (Remember Me. Postmortems from the M. G. Jacob Collection) at Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, Italy, April – July, 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Nurture: A world of creativity and transformation,” on the exhibition The basement: photography from Prahran College (1968-1981) at the Museum of Australian Photography, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne, March – May, 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Street cred,” on the exhibition Dawoud Bey; Street Portraits at Denver Art Museum, November 2024 – May 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Out in the midday sun,” on the exhibition Martin Parr. Early Works at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF), September 2024 – February 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Contested ground,” on the exhibition A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, October 2024 – January 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “In front of me I have the sea,” on the exhibition Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, September 2024 – January 2025 |
| 2024 @ | ~ Text/Exhibition: “Self Seen,” on the exhibition Weegee. Autopsy of the Spectacle at Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, September 2024 – January 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “within, bridge and fissure,” on the exhibition Picturing the Border at the Cleveland Museum of Art, July 2024 – January 2025 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Losers and losers,” on the exhibition ONE YEAR! Photographs from the Miners’ Strike 1984-85 at Four Corners, London, September – October 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Deriving pleasure from the dérive,” on the exhibition The Poetry of the Everyday. Photographs by Elfriede Mejchar at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, April – September 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “( ~ Text/Exhibition: “An offer you can’t refuse,” on the exhibition Suburbia. Building the American Dream at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona | CCCB, March – September 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Then and now,” on the exhibition A Different Light – First Photographs of Aotearoa at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand, April – September 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “In vivid and completely natural un/reality,” on the exhibition Roger Mayne: Youth at the Courtauld Gallery, London, June – September 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “David Goldblatt writing history,” on the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, May – June 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Otherworldy beings: the materialisations and transformations of Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron,” on the exhibition Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March – June 2024 ~ Review: “Down with Earth,” on the exhibition Julie Millowick: Surrounding at the Castlemaine Art Museum, February – June 2024 ~ Review: “Wondering through history,” on the exhibition Wanderings About History. The Photography of Ulrich Wüst at the RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, March – April 2024 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Full of the world” on the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Seeing People at the National Gallery of Art, Washington Part 2, March 2024 ~ Review: “Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors…” on the exhibition Photography: Real & Imagined at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne Part 2, February 2024 ~ Text/Photographs: “Communities dismantled,” on the Melbourne slum photographs of Frederick Oswald Barnett (Australian, 1883-1972), February 2024 |
| 2023 @ | ~ Vale Ian Lobb (1948-2023), photographer “The luminosity of Ian Lobb” December 2023 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Salt of the Earth” on the exhibition Golden Valley Faces: The photographs of Richard Jenkins at the Café Gallery, Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, until September 2023 ~ Text/Exhibition: “The Eye of the Beholder” on the exhibition Under Cover: J.C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity at the New-York Historical Society, August 2023 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Transcending reality” on the exhibition Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929-1941 at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California, July 2023 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Man and imagination” on the exhibition Ansel Adams in Our Time at the de Young museum, San Francisco, July 2023 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Forever present” on the exhibition Chris Killip, Retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery, February 2023 ~ Text: “Golden splendour: privilege, ceremony and racism in 1920s-1930s Australia” on the photo album ‘John “Jack” Riverstone Faviell (1892-1960), 1922-1933’ Part 2, January 2023 (4,670 words) ~ Text/Exhibition: “Visible Man / Invisible photographer” on the exhibition Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 2023 |
| 2022 @ | ~ Exhibition: Baldwin Lee at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, November 2022 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Ghosts in the machine,” on the exhibition Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 2022 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Reclaiming the light,” on the exhibition Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, Wellington, October 2022 ~ Text/Exhibition: “The quiet of the great beyond” on the exhibition American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 2022 ~ Exhibition: Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point at Four Corners, London, August 2022 ~ Review: “The Black and White Show,” on the exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, August 2022 ~ Text/Exhibition: “A portent of things to come…” on the exhibition Germany / 1920s / New Objectivity / August Sander at Centre Pompidou, Paris, August 2022 ~ Text/Photographs: “Familiar yet strange: Frank Hurley’s First World War photographs,” on Frank Hurley – Soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on the Western Front during the First World War, mid-1917 – September 1918, July 2022 ~ Text/Photographs: “Rendering the past and the presence, shaping history and memory,” on Images of Mongolian noblemen and noblewomen of early 20th century (1910s-1920s), July 2022 ~ Text/Exhibition: “The blink of an eye,” on the exhibition Marion Kalter. Deep Time at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, April 2022 ~ Review: Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary at the Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne, March 2022 ~ Text: “Finding Integrity: “New Woman” artists and female emancipation in the first half of the twentieth century,” on the exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera at the National Gallery of Art, Washington Part 3, January 2022 (7,000 words) |
| 2021 @ | ~ Text/Exhibition: “There is no more time,” on the exhibition Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America, 1940-1978 at the Phoenix Art Museum, December 2021 ~ New website: ‘Marcus Bunyan – celebrating 30 years of art practice in 2021’ November 2021 ~ Text/Exhibition: “In our sight, in our mind” on the exhibition Mervyn Bishop: Australian Photojournalist at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Acton, Canberra ACT, October 2021 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Dark atmosphere of a grey reality,” on the exhibition Michael Schmidt: A new German Perspective at Jeu de Paume, Paris, August 2021 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Bill Brandt: master of photography, master of reinvention,” on the exhibition Bill Brandt at the Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, August 2021 ~ Review: “The Family of Yang,” on the exhibition William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, August 2021 ~ Review: “Disguising power as virtue or, the Inner Landscape of Beauty,” on the exhibition An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, August 2021 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Recognising small diversions,” on the exhibition Friedrich Seidenstücker – Life in the City: Photographs from the 1920s to 1940s at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, June 2021 ~ Text/Exhibition: “The power of imagination,” on the exhibition Eugène Atget, Voir Paris at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, June 2021 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Nature ∞ nurture,” on the exhibition The Human Cost: America’s Drug Plague at the Bronx Documentary Center, New York, June 2021 ~ Text/Photographs: “Death, duplicity and dishonour” on ‘The “Green Ticket” roundup – first roundup of Jews in France during World War II’, Memorial de la Shoah, Paris, May 2021 ~ Review: “Contested Ground,” on the exhibition Do Brumbies Dream in Red? – Tom Goldner at the Meat Market Stables, Melbourne, May 2021 ~ Review: Ruth Maddison: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, April 2021 ~ Text: “Realist structuralist illusionist,” on the exhibition Clarice Beckett: The present moment at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, March 2021 ~ Review: “Embodied Ab/origin,” on the exhibition DESTINY at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, November 2020 – February 2021 ~ Text/exhibition: “The semi-transparent self,” on the exhibition The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography at the National Nordic Museum, Seattle, January 2021 ~ Text/exhibition: “A difficult thing said simply,” on the exhibition Unearthed: Photography’s Roots at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, January 2021 |
| 2020 @ | ~ Text: “For a few brief moments, rebels with a cause,” on the exhibition Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang at Cleveland Museum of Art, December 2020 ~ Text: “It’s a mystery,” on the exhibition Photography’s Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 2020 ~ Exhibition: ‘Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography’ at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, October 2020 ~ Pamphlet: ‘Australian Aboriginal Art’ with texts by Charles Barrett and A.S. Kenyon, National Museum of Victoria, 1952, August 2020 ~ Text: “Atget’s shadow,” on his Paris photographs, August 2020 ~ Text: “D-Construction: deliberate masculinities in a discontinuous world,” on the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, June 2020 ~ Text: ‘Prospect/us, protect us: plague and resumption in fin de siècle Sydney’ on John Degotardi Jr.’s The Plague Albums, Sydney, 1900, June 2020 ~ Text: “Visions of divine damnation,” on the exhibition William Blake at Tate Britain, London Part 2, February 2020 ~ Review: “Writing the body politic / broken,” on the exhibition Turning Points: Contemporary Photography from China at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, January 2020 |
| 2019 @ | ~ European photographic research tour: Josef Sudek archive at u(p)m The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, December 2019 ~ European photographic research tour: “A moment of experience,” on the exhibition Ara Güler: Two Archives, One Selection: Tracing Ara Güler’s Footsteps in Istanbul at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, November 2019 ~ Text and photos: Marcus Bunyan. “Punk jacket,” in Chris Brickell and Judith Collard (eds.,). Queer Objects. Manchester University Press, 2019, November 2019 ~ Text: Marcus Bunyan. “Nothing emerges from nothing,” Foreword to We Had Such High Hopes: Student Activism and the Peace Movement 1949-1952, A Photographic Memoir by Joyce Evans. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019 ~ Text/Review: “Picturing themselves,” on the exhibition ‘Why Take Pictures?’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, Melbourne, August 2019 ~ Vale Joyce Evans OAM photographer (1929-2019) July 2019 ~ Text/Photographs: ‘The Seven Last Words’ 1898 by F. Holland Day (1864-1933) (with Joyce Evans) April 2019 ~ Text/Exhibition: “Far from heaven,” on the exhibition Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life, Death, Rebirth at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January – March 2019 ~ Text: “Alternate readings/elisions/a damaged life,” on the exhibition Akram Zaatari: The Fold – Space, time and the image at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, January 2019 |
| 2018 @ | ~ Text: “Dans toute sa force” (In full force) on Germaine Krull’s portfolio ‘MÉTAL’ 1928 December 2018 ~ Text: “The aristocrats,” on the circus photographs of Edward J. Kelty November 2018 ~ Paper: ‘Death and the image’. This text investigates how the act of photography visually writes trauma. Word count: 8,137 November 2018 ~ Text: ‘Without worry … here ‘I am’,” on the exhibition African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Part 2, June – October 2018 ~ Text: “Climbing into immortality,” on the work of Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), September 2018 ~ Review: “Terror incognita,” on the exhibition Colony: Australia 1770 – 1861 at NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, March – July 2018 ~ Review: “The power of intention,” on Diane Arbus: American Portraits at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, March – June 2018 ~ Review: Shadows of War: Roger Fenton’s Photographs of the Crimea, 1855 at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London November 2017 – April 2018 ~ Text: “Rare magician, strange alchemist, tells stories through visuals,” on the exhibition Jakob Tuggener – Machine time at Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Zurich, October 2017 – January 2018 ~ Book review: “Truth and consequence in red dirt country,” on the book The Lumen Seed by Judith Crispin (2016) January 2018 ~ Text/Exhibition: Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925 at the Princeton University Art Museum, October 2017 – January 2018 |
| 2017 @ | ~ Text: “Show and tell,” on the exhibition The Unflinching Gaze: photo media and the male figure at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, November 2017 ~ Review: “Extending the possibilities of the universe,” on the exhibition René Magritte: The Revealing Image, Photos and Films at the Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, November 2017 ~ Review: “Double take,” on the exhbition An unorthodox flow of images at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne Part 2 ~ Vale William Heimerman (1950-2017): “William Heimerman: the essence of 344” October 2017 ~ Review: “Very Pauline,” on the exhibition Queer British Art 1861-1967 at Tate Britain, London, September 2017 ~ Review: “Still singing, still Dreaming, still loving… not dying,” on the exhibition Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, July 2017 ~ Review: “Reading either side of the sign: Bronwyn Oliver and the invitation to imagine,” on the exhibition The sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria, February 2017 ~ Text/Exhibition: Soulèvements / Uprisings at Jeu de Paume, Paris, January 2017 |
| 2016 @ | ~ Text/Photographs: Mother Boats C.P. (Brian Traynor). ‘Los Angeles Pride Parade’ June 1970, October 2016 ~ Paper: “Exposure: The white Australian male in portrait photography 1858-1914,” presented at Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914 international conference, The University of Melbourne, September 2016 ~ Exhibition: Roberto Donetta Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal at Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Zurich, May – September 2016 ~ Review: Henry Talbot: 1960s Fashion Photographer at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, May – August 2016 ~ Text/Exhibition: “One wrong does not a life make,” on the exhibition Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March – July 2016 ~ Review: “An independent vision,” on the exhibition Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, May – July 2016 ~ Review: Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, December 2015 – April 2016 ~ Cabinet card: William Bardwell, photographer – Alfred William Howitt, William Barak and unidentified man, April 2016 ~ Review: Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan at the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, January – April 2016 ~ Photography/Text: Alexander Gardner: ‘Memories of the War. Illustrations of the Grand Review’ and Matthew Brady photographs of the Grand Review March 2016 ~ Exhibition: Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs, 1859-1872 at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, September 2015 – March 2016 ~ Review: Trent Parke: The camera is god at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, November 2015 – February 2016 ~ Text: “The multiple singularities of photography: Photograph, photographer, negative, print,” on the exhibition Every Photograph is an Enigma at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, February 2016 ~ Exhibition: The Time Between: The Sequences of Minor White at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, October 2015 – January 2016 |
| 2015 @ | ~ Review: “Reality, passing,” on the exhibition William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2015 at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, September – November 2015 ~ Text: “The road less travelled,” on the exhibition Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney, August – October 2015 ~ Text: “Reflections on David: In a galaxy all of his own,” on the exhibition David Bowie is at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, October 2015 ~ Exhibition: Colour my world: handcoloured Australian photography at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, September 2015 ~ Exhibition: Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 2015 ~ Photographs/Text: ‘Quandong, New South Wales, Australia 1887’, July 2015 ~ Research paper: ‘Beginnings: The International Photographic Collection at the National Gallery of Victoria’ May 2015 ~ Review: “What’s the story,” on the exhibition Earth Matters: contemporary photographers in the landscape at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, March – May 2015 ~ Text: Hands / Class – Tree, Surface, Root; Artist in focus: Larry Fink – April 2015 ~ Review: Richard Avedon People at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, December 2014 – March 2015 ~ Text: “Exposing your/self,” on the exhibition Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, November 2014 – February 2015 ~ Text/Exhibition: Wynn Bullock: Revelations at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 2014 – January 2015 |
| 2014 @ | ~ Text/Exhibition: Everyday imagining: new perspectives on Outsider art at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, October 2014 – January 2015 ~ Review: Polixeni Papapetrou: Lost Psyche at Stills Gallery, Sydney, October – November 2014 ~ Text/Exhibition: From Steam to Diesel at the Portobello Library, Edinburgh, November 2014 ~ Review: Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, October 2014 ~ Review: Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 2014 ~ Catalogue essay: “Aspects of the Self (Revealed),” on the exhibition Hidden Talents at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), The University of Melbourne, August 2014 ~ Catalogue essay: “Being (t)here: Gay liberation photography in Australia 1971-73,” from my curated exhibition Out of the closets, onto the streets: Gay Liberation photography, 1971-73 at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, July 2014 ~ Text/Exhibition: Vivian Maier (1926-2009). A Photographic Revelation at Château de Tours, May 2014 ~ Review: The Rennie Ellis Show at Monash Gallery of Art, Wheeler Hill, Melbourne, May 2014 ~ Text/Exhibition: Australian vernacular photography Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), May 2014 ~ Text/Review: “A Vocabulary of Printing and the Syntax of the Image,” on the exhibition KHEM at Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, May 2014 ~ Text/Review: Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 2014 ~ Text: ‘Facile, Facies, Facticity’ Dr Marcus Bunyan, January 2014 ~ Exhibition: Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2014 |
| 2013 @ | ~ Review: Claudia Terstappen: In The Shadow Of Change at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, December 2013 ~ Text: ‘Made ready: A Philosophy of Moments’ Dr Marcus Bunyan, December 2013 ~ Text: ‘Transgressive Topographies, Subversive Photographies, Cultural Policies’ Dr Marcus Bunyan September 2012 published October 2013 ~ Review: Joyce Evans: Edge of the road at the Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne, October 2013 ~ Review: Carol Jerrems: photographic artist at the Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne, Sept 2013 ~ Opening speech: ‘John Cato Retrospective’ and book launch at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, August 2013 ~ Catalogue essay: ‘Intimations of Mor(t)ality: Sudarios (Shrouds) by Erika Diettes’ for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, August 2013 ~ Text: ‘Un/settling Aboriginality’ July 2013 ~ Text: ‘Ernest Cole: Journeys through photojournalism, social documentary photography and art’ July 2013 ~ Review: Johsel Namkung: A Retrospective book published by Cosgrove Editions, 2013 ~ Video: ‘InsideArt – Marcus Bunyan’ talks about the exhibition Confounding: Contemporary Photography at NGV International, Melbourne March 2013 ~ Video: ‘Marcus Bunyan – what makes a great photograph?’ at the CCP, Melbourne, online March 2013 ~ Review: Jeff Wall Photographs at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, March 2013 ~ Text: “Thinking contemporary photography,” on the exhibition Confounding: Contemporary Photography at NGV International, Melbourne, February 2013. ~ Text: “Orality, (n)framing and enactment in the art of Jacqui Stockdale,” in IANN magazine Vol.8, ‘Unfound in Australia’, October 2012 (published online January 2013) |
| 2012 @ | ~ Public talk: “This is not my favourite photograph,” part of ‘What makes a great photograph?’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, December 2012 ~ Text/Review: “Downfall of a dream: (n)framing the enigma in Gregory Crewdson’s ‘Beneath the Roses’,” on the exhibition Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, October 2012 ~ Paper: “Traversing the unknown,” presented at the Travel Ideals international conference, July 2012 published October 2012 ~ Text: ‘The defining of Apollonian and Dionysian ideals in images of the male body’ (1996) published September 2012 ~ Text/Review: “How Light Works,” on the exhibition Light Work‘ at NGV International, Melbourne, September 2012 ~ Text on the exhibition: Weegee: Murder Is My Business at the International Center of Photography, New York, August 2012 ~ Text: “On the Nature of Photography,” on the exhibition Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, August 2012 ~ Text: Transit series by Katrin Koenning July 2012 ~ Review: Lost & Found: Family Photos Swept away by the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne ~ Review: Fred Kruger: Intimate Landscapes at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne ~ Text: “The Eye that sees the Sun: Andrew Follows and his Tabula rasa,” on the exhibition Through the Looking Glass Dimly at The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh Art Festival ~ Opening speech: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” for the exhibition Traverse by Kim Percy at Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria |
| 2011 @ | ~ Essay: ‘Now you see it, now you don’t: the history and conservation of The Keith Haring Mural, Johnston Street, Collingwood, Melbourne’ ~ Opening speech: Movement and Emotion and Jodie Noble Solo exhibitions at Arts Project Australia, Melbourne ~ Essay/Review: ‘Un/aware and in re/pose: the self, the subject and the city’: essay about surveillance, the gaze, the camera, the self, the subject and the city. ~ Review: Scott’s Last Expedition at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney ~ Text: The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) Hobart ~ Opening speech: ‘John Bodin: Rite of Passage’ at Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond ~ Review: American Dreams: 20th century photography from George Eastman House at Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria ~ Review: Time Machine: Sue Ford at Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria ~ Review: Bill Henson at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne ~ Text/Review: “The Digital Punctum,” on the exhibition In Spates by Sam Shmith at Arc One Gallery, Melbourne Text/Review: “Heavy Weather: Photography and the Australian Land(e)scape,” on the exhibition Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography at NGV Australia, Melbourne ~ Review: NETWORKS (cells & silos) at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield ~ Review: Sidney Nolan: Drought Photographs at Australian Galleries, Melbourne ~ Review: Luminous Cities: Photographs of the Built Environment at NGV International, Melbourne: examines early collecting policies of vintage prints by international photographers at the NGV |
| 2010 @ | ~ Review: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar by Taryn Simon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy ~ Review: Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne ~ Review: Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur at The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne |
| 2009 @ | Text: ‘The Passing of Memory: resurrecting a photograph for the series ‘The Shape of Dreams” 2009 Review: Unforced Intimacies by Patricia Piccinini at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Review: Long Distance Vision: Three Australian Photographers at The Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne Review: presentation/representation: photography from Germany at the Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne Review: Jonh Brack retrospective at The National Gallery of Victoria, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne Review: Tacita Dean at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne Review: My Jesus Lets Me Rub His Belly exhibition by Martin Smith at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Review: triestement (more-is u thrill-o) by Domenico De Clario at John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne Review: Mark Strizic: Melbourne – A City in Transition (Rare Silver Gelatin Photographs) at Gallery 101, Melbourne Review: Order and disorder: archives and photography at the National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne Review: Ocean Without A Shore video installation by Bill Viola at The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 2009 Review: Rosalie Gascoigne at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, February 2009 |
| 2008 @ | Launch of Art Blart art and cultural memory archive at artblart.com |
| 2006 @ | ~ Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male: website adaptation of PhD research undertaken at RMIT University, featuring research on the photographic collections at The Kinsey Institute and The Minor White Archive. ~ Paper: “Mis en Scene: Vision and the Digital Paradigm,” presented at Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2006 Annual Conference ‘Reinventing the Medium’, Monash University. |
| 2005 @ |
~ Paper: “SynchroMate: A Phatic Technology for Mediating Intimacy,” presented at DUX 2005, San Francisco, Nov 3rd – 5th 2005. ~ Paper: “Mediating Intimacy: Digital Kisses and Cut and Paste Hugs,” presented at CHI 2005, Portland, Oregon, April 2nd – 7th 2005. |
| 2004 @ |
~ Paper: “Research Through Practice: Interdisciplinary Research and Artistic Production,” presented at COFA seminar ‘Research Through Practice: Beyond Research Equivalence in Art and Design’, Sydney, NSW, 2004. ~ Paper: “Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy,” published in ‘Proceedings of OzCHI 2004: Supporting Community Interaction: Possibilities and Challenges’, University of Wollongong, 22-24 November, 2004. ~ Paper: “The Delicious Fields: Exploring Man Ray’s ‘Rayographs’ in a Digital Future,” published in The University of Queensland Vanguard magazine ‘Man Ray: Life, Work & Themes’, 2004. |
| 2002 @ |
~ Paper: “Spaces That Matter: Awareness and Entropia and the Imaging of Place,” presented at the Mediated Spaces Symposium, The University of Melbourne, October 2002. ~ Catalogue essay: “Memory From Memory,” for an exhibition by John Billan and Jennifer Sochackyj at West Space Gallery, Melbourne. ~ Catalogue essay: “… And His Forms Were Without Number,” on the photographic work of Dr John Cato 1971-1991 published online August 2013 |
| 2001 @ |
~ Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male: PhD research dissemination comprising a CD ROM and thesis available through RMIT University Library, Melbourne. ~ Chapter: “Re-Pressentation,” from Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male. Phd research, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2001 ~ Chapter: “In Press,” from Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male. Phd research, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2001 ~ Chapter: “Bench Press,” from Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male. Phd research, RMIT University, 2001 ~ Chapter: “Historical Pressings,” from Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male. Phd research, RMIT University, 2001 |
| 1999 @ |
~ Paper: “Sex and Sensibility: Gay Eth(n)ics into the New Millennium,” presented at HID3, Proceedings of the 3rd National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, 1999. ~ Research into photographs of men at the Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, August 1999 part of my Phd research undertaken at RMIT University, Melbourne |
| 1998 @ |
~ Catalogue essay: “Darkness/Colour,” for the exhibition of the same name at The Photographers Gallery, Melbourne. ~ Paper: “Trans(a)gressions and the Body-Image,” presented at HID2, Proceedings of the 2nd National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, 22-24 January 1998. |
| 1996 @ |
Text: “The defining of Apollonian and Dionysian ideals in images of the male body,” Master of Arts exegesis, Melbourne 1996 published online on Art Blart, September 2012 |
Marcus Bunyan – Imagemaker 