Zo Damage © Silvi Glattauer 2022

Bio

Zo Damage is a contemporary visual artist, researcher, and acclaimed live music photographer based in Melbourne. Her practice explores embodied aesthetic experiences through both traditional and experimental analogue photography and printmaking. Damage’s work has been published and exhibited at local, regional, and state institutions, including solo exhibitions at Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary in Sydney, Ballarat Conservatory, and The Market Building Castlemaine. She photographed a live music performance each day for an entire year, resulting in a 366-day leap year collection presented in her book, The Damage Report, which debuted with a major solo exhibition at Arts Centre Melbourne. In recent projects, Damage has collaborated with local musicians, repurposing broken and discarded music equipment as etching tools to produce abstract monoprints. She is a PhD candidate in Fine Art at Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), a three-time consecutive finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize (2023, 2024, 2025), recipient of the 2023 Bowness Photography People’s Choice Award, and winner of The Age Music Victoria Outstanding Achievement Award in 2017 for The Damage Report. This award marked only the second time the accolade had been presented by The Age Music Victoria Awards since its inception. Her artworks and self-published books are held in public and private collections across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. Additional recognitions include the State Library Victoria Fellowship (2022), the RMIT School of Art Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence (2021), and the QVM Support to the Community Award (2018). Her studio, established over fifteen years ago, is located at Arts House in North Melbourne.

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