Zo Damage © Silvi Glattauer 2022

Bio

Zo Damage is a Melbourne-based experimental visual artist. Her career as a live music photographer spans over twenty years. Her fine art practice is characterised by a sustained engagement with analogue photographic processes to explore embodied aesthetic experiences. Her work has been published in both print and online and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at local, regional, and state venues, including Arts Centre Melbourne, the Museum of Australian Photography, and Australian Galleries. Recent achievements include the Bowness Photography Prize Shortlist (2023, 2024, 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), QVM Awards Support to the Community Award (2018), and The Age Music Victoria Awards Outstanding Achievement Award (2017). In 2021 Zo graduated from the Master of Photography program at RMIT University, receiving the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence. Her artworks and self-published books are held in public and private collections in Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, Scotland, Spain, Germany, the United States, and China. Zo is currently a PhD candidate (Fine Art) at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University.

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