PHOTODUST is an independent art and photography organisation based in Melbourne, Australia.
We are a not-for-profit Asia-Pacific curation project. Our aim is to engage and encourage collaboration between artists, for the production and publication of photographic and lens-based art.
PHOTODUST aims to establish a unique perspective toward visual culture. For this purpose, we are constantly searching for artworks that involve the use of photography and related processes.
The rules are simple: all photographic and lens-based works will be considered. Our only requirement is that the work should be produced by artists born or based in the Asia-Pacific region.
CURATORS:
In alphabetical order.
Andrew McLaughlin
Ariel Cameron
Bella Li
Christine McFetridge
Chris Parkinson
Dan Sibley
Lisa Bow
Mauricio Rivera
Mike Read
Sudeep Lingamneni
CONTRIBUTORS:
(Featured)
Andrew Brown (F)
Bella Li (F)
Charlie Kinross (F)
Chris Parkinson (F)
Christine McFetridge (F)
Claire Capel-Stanley (F)
Dan Sibley (F)
Dianne Reid (F)
Dwi Asrul Fajar (F)
Erin Baker (F)
Georgina Campbell (F)
Ilona Nelson (F)
Jessye Wdowin-Mcgregor (F)
Jimmy Langer (F)
Jordan Madge (F)
Justyn Koh (F)
Leanora Olmi (F)
Lisa Bow (F)
Madeline Bishop (F)
Marcelle Bradbeer (F)
Mary Macpherson (F)
Mauricio Rivera (F)
Melinda Smith (F)
Mike Read (F)
Pia Johnson (F)
Robert Musgrave (F)
Simone Darcy (F)
Sonya Louise (F)
Sudeep Lingamneni (F)
Tiffaney Bishop (F)
Travis Fryer (F)
(Coming soon)
- Adelina Onicas (CS)
- Alia Gabres (CS)
- Alice Melike Ulgezer (CS)
- Andrew McLaughlin (CS)
- Angela Ahsam (CS)
- Angela Serrano (CS)
- Anna Loewendahl (CS)
- Anna Maria Drutzel (CS)
- Ariel Cameron (CS)
- Athena Zelandonii (CS)
- Audrey Lam (CS)
- Ben Beare (CS)
- Bo Svoronos (CS)
- Christopher Button (CS)
- Christopher Koller (CS)
- Cobie Orger (CS)
- Dan Bryant (CS)
- Elmedin Zunic (CS)
- Fadzai Jaravaza (CS)
- Florian Ritter (CS)
- Florence Tupuola (CS)
- Gabriela Georges (CS)
- Grace Pundyk (CS)
- Hannah Watkinson (CS)
- Harry Culy (CS)
- Hartmut Veit (CS)
- Hoda Afshar (CS)
- Ingetje Tadros (CS)
- Jack Howe (CS)
- Jacob Raupach (CS)
- Jacqueline Felstead (CS)
- James Hullick (CS)
- James Oliver (CS)
- Jane Brown (CS)
- Jessie Boylan (CS)
- Jessie DiBlasi (CS)
- Jessie Imam (CS)
- Jody Haines (CS)
- John Smith Gumbula (CS)
- Jonathan Sinatra (CS)
- Karolina Nowosielska Solevag (CS)
- Kate Golding (CS)
- Kip Scott (CS)
- Lachlan MacDowall (CS)
- Lara Week (CS)
- Lindsay Cox (CS)
- Luke Hahn (CS)
- Mark Dustin (CS)
- Matt Davis (CS)
- Mayssam Latif (CS)
- Meg Hewitt (CS)
- Megan Petrie (CS)
- Michael Castledine (CS)
- Michelle Braunstein (CS)
- Morgan Hickinbotham (CS)
- Morganna Magee (CS)
- Natasha Cantwell (CS)
- Nicholas Walton-Healey (CS)
- Nikki Lam (CS)
- Oliver Driscoll (CS)
- Olivia Mroz (CS)
- Paul Batt (CS)
- Polly Stanton (CS)
- Rachael Elizabeth (CS)
- Rahima Miriam Hayes (CS)
- Renee Stamatova (CS)
- Richard Butler-Bowdon (CS)
- Satya Prapanca (CS)
- Shen Wei (CS)
- Siri Hayes (CS)
- Siying Zhou (CS)
- Supina Bytol (CS)
- Susan Doel (CS)
- Talia Smith (CS)
- Tania Canas (CS)
- Tanja Milbourne (CS)
- Tanya Massy (CS)
EDITORS:
Bella Li
Chris Parkinson
Christine McFetridge
Mauricio Rivera
PARTNERSHIPS:
Photodust has a collaborative series with Peril (http://peril.com.au), an online magazine focused on issues of Asian-Australian arts and culture. Peril’s mission is to be a platform for Asian-Australian voices that empowers the creativity, agency and representation of Asian-Australian people in arts, society and culture.
Ownership of intellectual property rights (i.e. copyright and any other intellectual property rights) of the material published in this website, unless otherwise noted, belongs to PHOTODUST. All rights reserved.
By submitting work to PHOTODUST, you are confirming that you own the copyright to this work or have permission from the copyright holder to submit it. You are granting PHOTODUST a non-exclusive licence to use the work in its submitted form, for publication on the PHOTODUST website for as long as the website exists and to include in any publication (both digital or in print) that PHOTODUST may produce in the future.
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE:
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Choreographer/Dancer and screendance artist Dianne Reid met Melinda Smith in 2010 during the production of Perfectly Imperfect—a play about issues surrounding disability and parenting. This was the first time Melinda, who has Cerebral Palsy, had experienced dancing out of her wheelchair and the beginning of a dance mentorship with Dianne that has developed into a duet performance practice. Since then they have performed together in India and Sweden, created the full-length work Unbecoming (2014) which was then developed as part of Dance Interrogations (a diptych) in 2015. Dianne has made her own creative responses to their practice with the making of a series of short screendances. A Beautiful Day (2012) is a collage of the beginnings of their collaboration, the result of a creative development project for Melinda mentored by Dianne.
In 2016 their practice has moved into new planes and possibilities with the performance work Dance Interrogations 2016. The video collage promoting this forthcoming season draws together Melinda’s thoughts about the journey, illustrated by a video journal of their six-year history.
Photography by Damien Hinds
WHEN: Saturdays 16 July and 23 July, 7pm and Sundays, 17 July and 24 July, 2pm
VENUE: FCAC Performance Space
COST: $25 Full / $20 Concession
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Presented as part of FCAC’s Call to Create program.
Melinda Smith is a visual and dance artist, living with cerebral palsy. She works in and out of her wheelchair and has performed as an improvised dancer since 2010. She has performed in India, Sweden and Australia. She is an author and public speaker and advocates for disability rights.
Dianne Reid is a performer, choreographer, camera operator, video editor and educator. She works in both live and screen contexts. She completed a Master of Arts in Dance on Screen in 2001 and her dance video works have screened at the dance and short film festivals in Melbourne and internationally at IMZ Monaco, Videodance, Greece and ADF Dancing for the camera, USA (now International Screendance Festival).