louisecurham.net

Louise Curham – artist, researcher, archivist.

  • Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize 2026

    This film still is a digital print created from scanned super 8 and standard 8 film strips. It showed in this year’s prize.

  • 2026 Dark Matter PhotoAccess resident artist

    In 2026, I am a PhotoAccess Dark Matter resident artist. Above are some Sabbatier/solarisation tests printed from 4 x 5 negs. I am working on

  • Kambah Turns 50 heritage award support material

  • Vale Malcolm Le Grice

    We, Lucas and I, are so saddened by the passing of Malcolm Le Grice. Our relationship with Malcolm starts back in 2008 when he visited Sydney and told Lucas he felt it was time to ‘hang up his boots’ on performing Horror Film 1. Malcolm was aware of the work we had been doing with…

  • Kambah

    A digital mapping project with the Kambah community 2020 – An exhibition in early 2023 Testing participatory archiving – the case of Kambah bogan suburb Archivists have been working on Involving communities in selecting archives for a couple of decades, wanting to move away from being gatekeepers for collections. However, delivering on aspirations to actually…

  • Old Media Orchestra, 2020 & 2021

    This project involved inviting Canberra people to come along and help create the ‘living mural of 1970s media’. You can check that out on Instagram but you won’t see too much more than the screen shot you’re seeing above. Louise Curham and Richard Johnson at the Drill Hall Gallery Feb 2021 perform as Old Media…

  • Bio and CV

    BIO Louise explores the creative application of old media. Her art training is in film and time-based art. She makes moving image art using hand made and hand processed 16mm and super 8 film – video art and films used live in performance. She also uses pinhole photography and cyanotypes. Making images using photography links…

  • Filmography

    Dance films: Knee Deep in Thin Air 1992; Fugue in Pursuit of Flight 1994; Slipped 1997. Other films: The Princess & The Pea 2000; Tenho Saudades (with Peter Humble) 2004; Conimbla 2009 Vimeo feed – lots of experimental works there.

  • Research

    Research

    Publications Ihlein, L & Curham, L. (2015). ‘Reaching Through To the Object: Re-Enacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1’. Performance Matters 1 (1-2): 24–40. Curham L. (2016). ‘Caring for Live Art That Eludes Digital Preservation’. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation, 266–67. Bern, Switzerland: Swiss National Library. Curham, L. (2017). ‘Performing…

  • Pararaha

    Pararaha

    Curham, L (film artist). (2010). Pararaha [motion picture film] Australia: commissioned for ‘Soak’ in the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Spence, A (composer),  Australian Art Orchestra (performers). Premier MIAF, 2010, Melbourne Recital Centre, 9 October. 2013: Lines of Flight, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Johnson H (piano), 21 March. 2013: BBC Jazz on 3, Blunt, A (violin),…

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