After selling out in print form, Claire Martin’s E-Book, The Downtown East Side published by Editions Bessard is now available for electronic download from Upublisher for the very reasonable price of €8.99. To purchase a copy or to find out more CLICK HERE.
One of Oculi’s newest members, Raphaela Rosella has been named a finalist in The Perth Centre for Photography’s UNCOVER Award for emerging photographic practitioners. The winner of the the award will be announced at the opening night on October 25. For more information CLICK HERE.
Following his recent exhibition Blue Highways, USA (Part 1), Oculi’s Andrew Quilty has moved to continue work on the series as well as explore the possibilities of a city from where much of his recent assignment work has come. Quilty will be based in New York indefinitely but will still be available for assignments in Australia [...]
After six years of work-in-progress, Lee Grant’s series Belco Pride is finally being shown on home turf. The exhibition opens this Friday 28th September at the Belconnen Arts Centre at 6pm and a very small number of books will be available for sale on the night. Pre-orders can also be taken by contacting Lee via [...]
Following the installation of The Elizabeth Street Gallery, Dean Sewell and Andrew Quilty were interviewed by Radio National’s Sarah Kanowski on The Weekend Art’s program. Click here to here the full interview. Also, on The Sydney Morning Herald website, there is a series of photographs from the installation by Dom Lorrimer.
Oculi members, Dean Sewell, James Brickwood and Andrew Quilty along with George Voulgaropoulos, Nic Walker and James ‘Blondie’ Alcock, yesterday installed a massive, public exhibition of 40 photographs from across Sydney, along the length of an entire Sydney city block. News of the unauthorised exhibition travelled to the top of Sydney City Council, where it [...]
A photograph of a young boy holding a placard reading ‘Behead all those who insult the prophet’ at a protest that turned violent in Sydney last weekend is at the centre of debate across Australia. Following the Youtube release of a low budget movie depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed as a womaniser and paedophile by [...]
We are very excited to announce two new members to the Oculi collective: Raphaela Rosella and David Maurice Smith who both submitted very strong bodies of work. The voting was unanimous and we are pleased to welcome them both to the fold. It was a great call out with some fantastic submissions, a few which [...]
Andrew Quilty’s recent photographs documenting the plight of the tiny, South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have accompanied stories by journalist, Matt Siegel in The Post Magazine (South China Morning Post) and The Good Weekend (The Sydney Morning Herald & Melbourne Age) in recent weeks.
Andrew Quilty was interviewed in the lead-up to Semi-Permanent, Brisbane by Raw Ink Magazine. CLICK HERE to see the beautifully designed, free online magazine and the rest of the profile.

