In this episode of NGA Art Talks, Anne O’Hehir, Curator of Photography at the Gallery, speaks to Julie Rrap as part of a series of conversations recorded for the exhibition, Women Photographers 1853-2018 – a celebration of how women have shaped and redefined the medium, that recognises the strength of Australian photographers in a global context.

Julie Rrap, born in Lismore in 1950 and now based in Sydney, has been a central figure in Australian contemporary art for more than four decades. Emerging in the mid-1970s through body art and performance, she developed a practice that has since expanded to include photography, painting, sculpture, and video, all anchored in a sustained investigation of how the body is seen, represented, and interpreted. Her early engagement with performance laid the foundation for an oeuvre that often places her own body at the centre, using it as both subject and tool to question conventions of gender, identity, and power.

Women Photographers 1853-2018 is on display at the National Gallery until 1 March 2026.

This exhibition and podcast are supported by The Bowness Family Foundation.

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In this episode of NGA Art Talks, Anne O’Hehir, Curator of Photography at the Gallery, speaks to Brenda L Croft as part of a series of conversations recorded for the exhibition, Women Photographers 1853-2018 – a celebration of how women have shaped and redefined the medium, that recognises the strength of Australian photographers in a global context.

Brenda L. Croft, born in Boorloo/Perth in 1964, of the Gorindji/Malangal/Mudbora peoples, is a leading figure in Australian contemporary art and a prominent advocate within her community, recognised equally for her work as an artist, curator, writer and cultural leader. She grew up in Canberra but moved to Gadigal Nura/Sydney where she built long and important connections to the urban First Nations communities of Redfern and surrounding areas and became a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987.

Women Photographers 1853-2018 is on display at the National Gallery until 1 March 2026.

This exhibition and podcast are supported by The Bowness Family Foundation.

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In this episode of NGA Art Talks, Anne O’Hehir, Curator of Photography at the Gallery, speaks to Cherine Fahd as part of a series of conversations recorded for the exhibition, Women Photographers 1853-2018 – a celebration of how women have shaped and redefined the medium, that recognises the strength of Australian photographers in a global context.

Born in Gadigal Nura/Sydney in 1974, Cherine Fahd has spent over two decades developing one of Australia’s most inventive photomedia practices. Her work moves fluidly between photography, performance, text and sculpture, yet remains grounded in a deep curiosity about what happens in the photographic encounter—how identity is read, how relationships form, and how images both reveal and obscure the complexities of lived experience.

Women Photographers 1853-2018 is on display at the National Gallery until 1 March 2026.

This exhibition and podcast are supported by The Bowness Family Foundation.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.