Protest is a Creative Act: Australian Women Photographers, 1975-2025

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Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of International Women’s Year and International Women’s Day, MAPh will present Protest is a Creative Act, 6 June – 31 August 2025. This exhibition will bring together the work of Australian women photographers who are interested in shifting the status quo beyond the insertion of ‘women’s perspective and experience’ into our wider cultural and societal agenda. The work of the artistsncluded in the exhibition will call out inequality and is comfortable upsetting the equilibrium, yet equally shows that this doesn’t necessarily entail the
waving of a placard at a protest rally. While the inclusion of more diverse voices is a marker of our nation’s (and women’s) progress over the years, many of the issues addressed by contemporary artists – around parenting and domesticity, the body, race and national identity, and the environment – echo those of the women who have come before them.

The work in Protest is a Creative Act will celebrate the monumental changes that has happened for Australian women over the last 50 years, whilst reminding us of the wider societal structures that can make change feel frustratingly incremental.

Artists will include:
Virginia Coventry, Destiny Deacon (First Nations), Bonita Ely, Sue Ford, Janina Green, Carol Jerrems, Mary Cox, Angela Lynkushka, Viv Méhes, Wendy Rew, Naomi Hobson (First Nations), Ellen José, Rosemary Laing, Tara Shield, Viva Gibbs and Brenda L Croft (First nations).