Category: Gallery
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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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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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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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A film of one’s own, an exhibition in 2015 in Canberra and in 2005 in Sydney and New Zealand
A Film of One’s Own [Archive Fever] (2015), solo exhibition, PhotoAccess Canberra, Nov. Some words about this exhibition from the opening talk: The title of this exhibition is important. It references Virginia Woolf’s A room of one’s own and Jacques Derrida’s Archive fever: a Freudian impression. Archiving one’s self The work in this show all comes from my abstract…
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Stills life | moving fragments – exhibition with Jo Law, 2012
An exhibition of moving image art focused on attentiveness to every day objects, the exhibition showed at Belconnen Arts Centre and Tin Sheds Gallery. It featured work by Louise Curham and Jo Law. Jo used video and animation, Louise used super 8 film and hand processing.
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(Wo)Man With Mirror, a project ongoing since 2009
This has been a really important project for Teaching and Learning Cinema, that’s me and my dear friend Lucas Ihlein. A big benefit has been our friendship with Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo that has evolved from this work and time spent with Laura Hindmarsh in 2016 using the manual. The work is ongoing ……
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Propositions and Game Plans, a group show in the Melbourne Arts Festival 2008
Curham was part of an exhibition curated by David Young as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Works included watercolours and digital prints from the film frames.
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Old Things Are New Again, an exhibition at BankART 1929, Yokohama
An exhibition of film and installation in Yokohama in 2007