Jesse Boylan, Isabella Capezio, Jody Haines, Pia Johnson, Katrin Koenning, Christine McFetridge, Rebecca Najdowski, Clare Rae — Correspondences
1 May — 31 May, 2026
Jesse Boylan, Lake Hume, Table Top, NSW 2023
Correspondences proposes a dialogical exchange between bodies and land, through the work of eight lens-based artists who each engage with ideas of place and space. Working in a settler/colonial context on unceded land, each artist is informed by eco feminist critique that proposes a relational and intersectional ethic of care for ecologies in our current climate crisis.
In the exhibition photography is utilised as the primary mode of expression precisely for its complicated entanglement with the colonial history of landscape photography. Subverting dominant visual representations of bodies; in this case variously female, queer, non-male and non-white, the exhibition proposes an interconnected and reciprocal exchange between body and place, photographer and subject.
Included in the exhibition is an essay Working from the middle by Kelly Hussey-Smith.
Katrin Koenning, from Helen (On the Road), 2009
Artist Biographies
Jesse Boylan is an artist, researcher, and educator who lives on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria, Australia. Their practice spans photography, video, and sound, exploring nuclear legacies and slow violence through expanded documentary practice and site-based research. They are interested in transdisciplinary processes and often collaborates with other artists, scientists, and people across a variety of community sectors.
Isabella Capezio is an artist and lecturer in photography living and working on stolen Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung land. Isabella’s work and research explore ideas of failure, queerness, and nature and how alternative and expanded forms of photography can unsettle existing colonising forms of representation.
Jody Haines (Palawa) is a contemporary artist based in Naarm. Her unique practice blends social practice, photo-media (photography/video/film), and public art, creating large-scale public activations that include projections, paste-ups, and street-wide photographic installations. Rooted in Indigenous feminist K/new/Known materialism, Jody's work explores themes of identity, representation, and the female gaze.
Pia Johnson is a photographer and visual artist, whose practice emerged out of a concern with issues of cultural identity and difference, stemming from her mixed background of Chinese and Italian-Australian descent. These themes have underpinned her interest in memory, cultural spaces and performance to investigate notions of transcultural identity, belonging and otherness through photography, moving image and installation.
Katrin Koenning is a visual artist from Bochum-Langendreer (in the German Ruhrgebiet). Her work travels across still and moving images and text, at times including found materials, painting and collage. Pursuing intimacy and interconnection her work centres around practice as relational encounter. Most stories evolve through years and use returning as a way of drawing closer.
Christine McFetridge is a settler New Zealander based on unceded Wadawurrung Country. She is a photographer, researcher and writer represented by M.33, Melbourne, and a doctoral researcher in the AEGIS research network.
Rebecca Najdowski (b. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) is an American/Australian artist whose work examines imaging technologies, the mediation of nature, and visualizations of the climate emergency. Rebecca engages with the material and political implications of representing nature through photographic technologies. Using analog and digital materials — often counter to their intended use — her artworks offer alternative modes to habitual ways of seeing, and sensing, more-than-human nature.
Clare Rae is an artist and educator from Naarm/Melbourne. In her photographic practice Clare explores gesture, space and architecture to examine structures of power and their impacts on the body. She has been making and exhibiting artwork in Australia and abroad for over 15 years.