Zo Damage © Silvi Glattauer 2022

Bio

I am a Melbourne-based visual artist whose practice spans traditional and experimental analogue photography, digital photography, printmaking, and installation. My career as a gig photographer spans over 20 years. My fine art practice is grounded in a deep engagement with analogue photographic processes as a means of exploring embodied aesthetic experience. Through this lens, my work interrogates the assumed truth-value of photographic representation and the constraints imposed by the frame, creating intersections between material presence and conceptual depth. Over the past two decades, my work has been published in both print and digital media, and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across local, regional, and state venues. Recent achievements include the Bowness Photography Prize Shortlist (2023, 2024, and 2025), the Bowness Photography Prize "People's Choice Award" (2023), State Library Victoria Fellowship (2022), the RMIT School of Art "Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence" (2021), Queen Victoria Market Awards "Support to the Community Award" (2018), and The Age Music Victoria Awards "Outstanding Achievement Award" (2017). My artworks are held in private collections in Australia and internationally, as well as in the permanent collections of State Library Victoria and Arts Centre Melbourne.

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