Author: lcurham
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Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize 2026
In 2026, the super 8 and standard 8 film strip work Film Strips [2019 unknown] was shown in the Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize at PhotoAccess.
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2026 Dark Matter PhotoAccess resident artist
In 2026, Louise is working on solarising 16mm and super 8 film, making a 16mm by torch printing and using a pin hole camera.
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Kambah Turns 50 heritage award support material
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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…
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Works in group show in the Canberra Art Biennial 2024
Two hand made films show in an exhibition in the Canberra Art Biennial in 2024.
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Kambah a photography exhibition at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Feb 2023
A digital mapping project in Kambah aims to involve the community in archiving their local stories and values through a participatory approach. The project includes a digital map and photographic exhibition to encourage residents to reflect on their suburb. It explores innovative categories, enhancing appreciation of familiar places.
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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…
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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…
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Stand-in Lab, an exhibition at PhotoAccess in 2019
This exhibition involved creating a user’s manual for Lynn Loo’s work Autumn Fog. Over four weeks, a series of artists used drafts of the manual and helped it evolve. This included Robert Agostino, Peter Humble, Richard Tuohy and my collaborator in Teaching and Learning Cinema, Lucas Ihlein. The manual ended up as a series of…
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Talk at ASPERA 2016, ‘The filmmaker is present …’
‘The filmmaker is present – experiment, process, image – a practitioner’s talk about process as the focus of moving image works’, Louise Curham at the Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association 2016 conference, University of Canberra, July 5-7. What happens when we scrap pre-production, production, post-production instead focusing on process alone? I am going…
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