Archive Apparitions: Elisa deCourcy with Craig Tuffin and James Tylor

Exhibition opening Thursday 21st April, 6 pm.

Archive Apparitions emerges from extensive research into the experience, materiality and significance of early photographic portraits in the mid nineteenth century Australian colonies. These works mediate on colonisation, separation and identity. Featured among their sitters are luminaries of contemporary Australian photographic practice and scholarship along with descendants of historic daguerreotypes held in national collections. This series is historically inspired but uses historic processes to tell new stories of migration, environmentalism, family, and photography’s role as a container of memory.

Dr Sarah Engledow, the designated historian and a curator at the National Portrait Gallery from 1999 to 2019, will formally open the exhibitions on Thursday the 21st April, 6 pm.

All are welcome to join Elisa in the beautiful Manuka Arts Centre gardens for the celebratory opening. Drinks and canapes provided.

Archive Apparitions will close on Saturday, 21st May 2022 at 4 pm.