Curatorial+Co. began as a curated online art gallery and exhibition pop-up concept supporting emerging artists in 2015. Launching its first permanent exhibition space in Redfern, Sydney, in 2020, the gallery has grown to support 40+ Australian and international emerging and mid-career artists, across all mediums, with its monthly exhibition program and art consultancy. With 80% of its stable being female identifying artists, the gallery is passionate about re-correcting the gender divide. In May 2023, Curatorial+Co. moved to an outstanding gallery space on William St Woolloomooloo, Sydney, to provide further visibility for its artists. Founder and Director, Sophie Vander, is committed to supporting emerging artists and their career growth by providing opportunities both inside and outside the gallery walls, and facilitating the connections between collectors and artists so that both parties benefit from growth, understanding and appreciation. The Curatorial+Co. team is dedicated to promoting artistic quality, integrity, accessibility, distinction, experimentation, and diversity.
Directors Bill and Anne Gregory opened Annandale Galleries in 1991 in a converted Masonic Hall. The large space that the Galleries provide stems from the building’s initial construction as a Methodist church.
Through varying styles and contexts, the aim of Annandale Galleries is to show the best of Australian and international contemporary art. Recent exhibitions have included a range of artists recognised and revered the world over.
The Galleries have won particular acclaim and built a prominent reputation through showing the work of leading Aboriginal artists. Annandale Galleries represents Indigenous communities in Maningrida and Yirrkala, both in North East Arnhem Land, with regular exhibitions of barks and various free standing sculpture. The gallery also specialises in European modern masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Miro and Chagall.
Annandale Galleries is the Australian representative of such prominent artists as William Kentridge and Zadok Ben-David.
Bill Gregory is the ex-national president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA), a position he held for five years.
Trent Mitchell (b.1979) has been photographing for two decades with a narrative approach focusing on the environment in the broadest possible sense. He has also gained a reputation for his wry yet sensitive take on the manmade world, zeroing in on its various idiosyncrasies and contradictions. On both personal and assigned projects, his work is identified by an ability to not only compose his subject but distill the sensibility of the location and give a true connection to place.
Working across digital and film, in both black and white and colour, this Australian photographer, who has a background in art direction, design and publishing, has received wide recognition internationally. He won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize in 2015, and has been a finalist for the award over a number of years. He has also been featured in, among others, the International Photography Awards, Sony World Photography Awards, Head On and Australian Life Photographic Prize. His work has been acquired for many public and private collections, including the National Library of Australia. In 2025, ‘Australian Lustre’ was presented in a solo exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Paris.
Tiliqua Tiliqua is an exhibition space and studio in Sydney’s Inner West established by artists Felix Oppen and Kate Riley in 2022. We offer an ever-changing calendar of exhibitions throughout the year, along with workshops and life drawing sessions, and access to our print studio and presses. Our focus is to provide a supportive and accessible space for artists (particularly emerging artists) to exhibit. Our aim is to make viewing and showing art as pleasurable an experience as possible for everyone. Our passion is for printmaking and all kinds of works on paper.
Photo access is the centre for contemporary photography, film, video, and media arts in the Canberra region. As an established not-for-profit arts organisation, it is the longest running photographic organisation of its kind in Australia and is committed to experimentation, inclusivity and social engagement. Photo access nurtures a vibrant national community of artists who are pushing the boundaries of the medium and engaging with photography in all its forms.
For the past forty years, photo access has been an important site for presentation and experimentation through our monthly exhibitions, annual artist-in-residence program and weekly workshops and educational programs that offer inclusive and low-cost access to both digital facilities and public access analogue darkrooms. Our resources empower photographers to experiment with different technical processes and undertake a personal creative approach to photography, which is augmented by our network of artists and industry sponsors who support peer-to-peer development.
The past few years has seen a reduction in the number of Australian organisations dedicated to the presentation of photographic work, so our network has grown to become an important national resource that now attracts audiences and artist participation from all around the country including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Western Australia. Our location in the nation’s capital makes us an important nexus for dialogue and engagement through both physical and online programs and events in collaboration with our national partners.
Further information and recent exhibitions can be viewed online at www.photoaccess.org.au.
Paul Blackmore is an Australian photographer whose work sits at the intersection of documentary practice and fine art, with a sustained focus on people, place, and cultural identity. Working across portraiture, landscape, and long-form photographic essays, Blackmore is known for projects that engage deeply with social and environmental narratives, often developed over extended periods of time.
His work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, State Library of New South Wales, and venues throughout Europe and the United States. Blackmore’s photographs have been published extensively in international magazines such as Time, L’Express, Le Monde, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Josephine Ulrick + Win Schubert Photographic Prize,and has been a finalist in the Walkley and Mother Jones Awards. His books include Australian Responses to the Land, At Water’s Edge, and Heat. Blackmore lives and works in Australia, continuing a practice shaped by curiosity, endurance, and a slightly stubborn belief that photographs can still tell important stories.
Pamela Pauline is a Sydney-based photographic artist whose work explores the beauty and fragility of Australia’s unique biodiversity through meticulously constructed still-life imagery. Drawing inspiration from seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still-life painting, Pauline creates contemporary photographic tableaux in which Australian native flora and fauna replace the European specimens historically depicted in these works.
Central to her practice is the idea of photography as witness. Pauline’s work seeks to bear witness to living species at a moment of profound ecological change, recording their presence, beauty, and increasing vulnerability. Rather than depicting cut flowers traditionally associated with still-life painting, she photographs living plants and birds, emphasising vitality while acknowledging the historical symbolism of vanitas and the fragility of the natural world.
Pauline’s process combines field photography, studio still-life construction, and sophisticated digital compositing. Individual elements, including native flowers, birds, and insects, are photographed separately over extended periods of time in many different locations and then meticulously layered to form complex compositions. Through careful attention to light, spatial relationships, and tonal harmony, the final images evoke the dramatic atmosphere of historical still-life painting while remaining grounded in contemporary photographic practice.
Pauline’s work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally and recognised in numerous photographic and art prizes. Through her ongoing series Where the Wild Things Grow, Pauline continues to explore photography as both artistic expression and ecological witness, celebrating and advocating for Australia’s extraordinary native flora and fauna.
Mark Forbes is best known for his considered and atmospheric documentary photography of urban landscapes and interiors. He employs film as his medium of choice for personal documentary work – using predominantly traditional medium format cameras.
Forbes’ approach to photography comes from an underlying fascination with people and the interaction with their environment. His recent work has focussed on memories – both individual and shared, anthropomorphism and the experience of Déjà vu. He has an uncanny knack of bringing personality to the ordinary.
Forbes’ debut monograph Collected memories was published by the German publisher Hatje Cantz in 2023. Shortly after printing, a book signing event was held at Paris Photo 2023. The book was a shortlisted finalist at PHOTO 2024 for the Australian & New Zealand Photobook of the Year.
His work has been exhibited widely at public and commercial galleries in Australia and overseas and he has been a winner and finalist in a number of notable well renowned art prizes. Prizes of note as an exhibited finalist include: the Alice Prize, Blake Prize, CLIP Award, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Footscray Art Prize, Gosford Art Prize, Lake Art Prize, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Olive Cotton Award, Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the Wyndham Art Prize.
His limited edition signed & numbered archival prints & books are held in public and private collections, locally and internationally.
Born in Sydney in 1957. Attended University of Sydney (BA) and University of NSW (MA). Lived and worked several years in the UK, Thailand and Indonesia.
Extensively photographed the Indochinese refugee diaspora in the 1980s. Photographs appeared in several UN publications.
First exhibition Journey for Life 1991 at Sydney Opera House, joining Japanese photographer Masanori Kobayashi. Highlighted Iraqi Kurds border-crossing into Iran. Exhibition travelled to Melbourne, Parliament House Canberra, Wellington and Tokyo in 1991-2.
Exhibited as a solo artist in Australia since 1998. Group shows include 7 Artists at Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2002, featuring multi-panel work obsequiae. Twice selected to exhibit at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair [2018 and 2022].
Works held in private collections in France, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, Canada, Australia and the USA. Nominated for the Head On Portrait Prize [2006] and the Blake Prize [2008]. Shortlisted for the Head On Portrait Prize [2008 and 2010].
Photographs appear in several art publications, including the books Burma: Art and Archaeology [The British Museum, 2002] and the Australian Photography and Gallery Compendium [2012].
Litsa Veldekis is a leading Sydney-based Art Advisor and respected figure in the Australian art market, with a career defined by strategic leadership, record-breaking sales, and a deep commitment to contemporary art. With decades of experience across the auction and advisory sectors, she brings a rare combination of market insight, curatorial vision, and trusted expertise to her practice.
In 2011, Litsa established Bonhams’ Australian and International Art department, serving as Head of Art until 2014. In this role, she was instrumental in shaping the company’s strategic vision within the Australian market. During her tenure, Bonhams secured the landmark sale of “The Reg Grundy Collection,” achieving $19 million and setting a benchmark as the largest single-owner collection ever sold in Australia.
Prior to this, in 2010 as CEO of Menzies, Litsa oversaw the sale of Sidney Nolan’s First-Class Marksman (1946), which achieved $5.4 million when acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, then a record price for an Australian artwork.
In 2023, Litsa founded her own advisory and gallery in Woollahra, Sydney, presenting a curated program of solo and group exhibitions alongside site-specific activations. Her practice also facilitates private treaty sales, offering discreet and strategic pathways for collectors.
With deep expertise in collection development, deaccessioning, and acquisitions, she provides tailored advice to private collectors, institutions, and corporate clients.
Litsa Veldekis currently serves on the board of Liverpool Powerhouse, is President of the Art Consulting Association of Australia and a member of MCA Next. Her leadership reflects a longstanding commitment to professional standards, ethical practice, and the continued growth of Australia’s cultural landscape.
