PHOTO LIVE: Laura Delaney and Amanda Williams

Speakers

• Laura Delaney (AU)

  Laura Delaney (b. Naarm/Melbourne, AU, 1984) has a socially engaged art practice and works with archival and found materials. She creates site-specific interventions in public spaces, heritage sites and local community organisations. Delaney is interested in the latent histories of community sites and how these can open up enquiries about societies today. Since 2010 she has presented solo and collaborative projects for exhibitions and festivals in Australia, Italy and the UK. Delaney holds a Master of Fine Art by Research, Monash University, AU, 2011. From 2014 to 2018 she lived and worked in Naples, IT. Currently based in Naarm.

• Amanda Williams (AU)

  Amanda Williams is a Sydney-based artist who works with analogue photographic techniques to examine connections between the history of photography, and physical environments. Tied to explorations of place and imbued with a feminist focus, Williams’ practice takes shape through the use of 35mm, medium and large format film cameras. Where digital processes often grapple with questions around ‘the virtual’, the more traditional photographic methods employed by Williams afford her work the presence of a ‘real’ historical document. Exhibiting extensively in galleries and spaces across Australia and New Zealand, Williams’s accolades include being a finalist in numerous awards, and receiving the $30,000 MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize awarded by Murray Art Museum Albury in 2018.

• Brendan McCleary (AU)

  Brendan McCleary is PHOTO 2022’s Associate Curator, born and living on Wurundjeri country. He has worked as a Producer for MPavilion, stage managed events for White Night Melbourne, Dark Mofo, and Melbourne Music Week, and in 2017 worked for the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2018-19, Brendan was the Program Director for the Monash MPavilion, commissioning artists and events on the Monash University Clayton campus. As an independent curator, Brendan has worked with a number of Australian and international artists including Zanele Muholi (South Africa), Allora & Calzadilla (USA/Cuba), and Carolee Schneemann (USA).