Selected exhibitions and projects

Bowness Photography Prize 2023
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Bowness Photography Prize 2023

The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2023 group exhibition comprises the work of sixty-six artists shortlisted from a pool of over 640 outstanding submissions.

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NoteWorthy
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NoteWorthy

“NoteWorthy” presents a visual history of live music culture in Melbourne, representing the complex interconnections of music performance and communities as a series of non-figurative and representational copperplate prints on paper.

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Women in Trades
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Women in Trades

“Women in Trades” exhibitions celebrate women working in traditionally male-dominated trades. The series comprises photographs of 12 women captured on location in each of the women’s workplaces by Zo Damage.

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Baldessin Studio – The Legacy
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Baldessin Studio – The Legacy

Baldessin Studio and Australian Galleries present “Baldessin Studio – The Legacy". Comprising two curated exhibitions, the event celebrates the work and influence of George Baldessin (1939-1978).

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Essence
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Essence

“Essence” is a photographic, sculptural installation that investigates and expresses visual iterations of the materiality of rhythm and physical and psychological responses to music from the position of Melbourne’s live music creative sector.

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All dressed up …
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All dressed up …

“All dressed up and nowhere to go” aims to raise awareness of the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 threatening the communal sustainability and cohesiveness of the live music industry.

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Still
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Still

Zo Damage’s debut solo film photography exhibition, "Still”, explores in-between moments, human impact, construction, deconstruction, and finding the magic of newness and growth.

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Seed
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Seed

Seed by Zo Damage is a photography exhibition that explores the influence and inspiration of live music culture in our everyday lives.

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365 days/The Damage Report
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365 days/The Damage Report

On 25 February 2016, Zo Damage committed to photographing a live band or more every day for an entire year. Zo set some simple guidelines for her unprecedented undertaking, the most crucial being that photographs of one or more live music performances must be taken on the day, every day for a calendar year.

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Eve
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Eve

The Zo Damage exhibition “EVE: A celebration of women in rock and roll” was shown at Besser Space in Collingwood in 2016 as part of Melbourne’s Leaps and Bounds Music Festival.

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Digs
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Digs

The “DIGS” exhibition, curated by acclaimed photographer Zo Damage, features original photographic and illustrative works by artists including Rennie Ellis, Philip Morris, Ponch Hawkes and Paul Pirie. The Tote "Never Say Die" doors hang in the exhibition along with other memorabilia, including original Pram Factory poster art by Carol Porter dating back to 1978.

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