Louis Porter

Solo Shows 2011 Extracts from the Porter Archive Concerning Death – DEATH BE KIND (Melbourne/Australia) 2010 Unknown Land – VARS Gallery (Mildura/Australia) 2009 Record and Analysis – City Gallery (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Australian Colour – Monash Gallery of Art (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Cheap Flights – Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne/Australia) 2005 Faith and Charity – Start Gallery (Melbourne/Australia) Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 Hijacked II – Zephyr Gallery (Mannheim/Berlin) 2012 Mostly Agree – Stills Gallery (Sydney/Australia) forthcoming 2012 On This Site – Wallflower Dating Agency (Mildura/Australia) forthcoming 2011 Better than Art – Kings ARI (Melbourne/Australia) 2011 The Rest is Silence – DEATH BE KIND (Melbourne/Australia) 2011 The Gravity of The Situtation – Monash University Art Faculty Gallery (Melbourne/Australia) 2011 Unknown Land (publication) – Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Book Fair (Philadelphia/USA) 2010 Hijacked II – Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney/Australia) 2009 Fundraising Auction – Monash Gallery of Art (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Wires at Night – Kazari Gallery (Melbourne/Australia) 2008 Internal to External – 3space3 Gallery (Beijing/China) 2007 Tribal Living – IndexG Gallery (Torronto/Canada) 2006 Unnatural Selection – Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery (Shropshire/UK) 2006 Australian Suburbia – House of Architecture , Graz (Vienna/Austria) 2005 Suburban Picnic – Uber Gallery (Melbourne/Australia) 2005 Finalist – Ulrich and Win Schubert Photographic Award – Gold Coast Art Gallery (Gold Coast/Australia) Artist Monographs 2012 The Anatomy of Business – Twenty Shelves (Melbourne/Australia) 2011 Bad Driving – Erm Books (Melbourne/Australia) 2010 Unknown Land – Double Plus Good Books (Bristol/UK) 2009 100 Flowers – LozenUP publishing (Paris/ France) Awards and Grants 2008 Australia-China Council residency – Red Gate Gallery (Beijing/China) 2008 Finalist – Olive Cotton Award, Tweed Shire Gallery (Tweed Heads/Australia) 2007 Finalist – Ulrich and Win Schubert Photograpic Award – Gold Coast Art Gallery (Gold Coast/Australia) 2007 Nominated for PDN (Photo District News) top 30 photographers list (New York/USA) 2005 Artist Development Grant – City of Yarra (Melbourne/Australia) 2005 Finalist – Ulrich and Win Schubert Photographic Award – Gold Coast Art Gallery (Gold Coast/Australia) 2004 Winner -Nikon Colour Award- Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne/Australia) Bibliography – Books 2011 Characters – Thames & Hudson (Melbourne/Australia) 2010 Hijacked II Australia/Germany – Big City Press (Perth/Australia) 2009 Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography – Humble Arts Foundation (New York/ USA) 2008 Central Business Dreaming – City of Melbourne publishing ( Melbourne/Australia) Selected Reviews/Essays and Articles 2012 Grand Illusion- Aint Bad Magazine #4 (Savannah/USA) 2012 Bad Driving – Bureau Magazine #2 (Melbourne/Australia) 2012 On Intimacy – Excerpt Magazine #3 (Melbourne/Australia) 2012 Sporen van Overmoed – de Volkskrant – Frank Schallmaier (Amsterdam/Netherlands) 2012 Abundance – Lamono Magazine #80, (Barcelona/Spain) 2012 Guide to Unique Photography (GUP) – Portfolio feature , (Amsterdam/Netherlands) 2012 Louis Porter’s Photography Book: Bad Driving Amy Marjoram - Lost at E Minor (London/UK) 2011 Louis Porter – Actual Colours May Vary Oliver Schneider, (Berlin/Germany 2011 Timemachine isue #1 – Lee Grant and Tom Williamson, (Canberra/Australia) 2011 f100/fototazo – Oliver Schneider (New York/USA) 2011 Two new art books by Erm – Bree Johnson, Broadsheet Magazine (Australia/Melbourne) 2010 100 Flowers – Photo Eye Magazine review by Tom Leininger (New York/USA) 2009 Record and Analysis – Dan Rule A2, The Age (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Untangled – The Age, Penny Modra (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Escalators – PiePaper #2 (Auckland/New Zealand) 2009 Around the Galleries – The Age by Dan Rule (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Wish you Were Here – The Big Issue by Michael Green (Melbourne/Australia) 2009 Wires at Night – DE:Bug magazine (Berlin/Germany) 2008 I Love China So Do You – WON magazine issue 4 (Melbourne/Australia) 2007 The Lost Emperors – The Big Issue by Melissa Craneburgh (Melbourne/Australia) 2007 Photo profile – GEO magazine (Berlin/Germany) 2007 Interview – Nothing Mag by Jason Lingard (Melbourne/Australia) 2006 Back to School – photo set ADbusters (Vancover/Canada) 2006 Call Connect – TRACE magazine (New York/US) 2005 Strange Seduction of Suburbia – The Age , by Ashley Crawford (Melbourne/Australia) 2005 Suburban picnic review – Meagan Backhouse, The Age (Melbourne/Australia) 2005 Fun – Spinach7 magazine, Marni Cordell (Melbourne/Australia) 2004 Interview – Sunday Arts ABC Television (Melbourne/Australia) Collections State Library of Victoria Monash University Art Collection City of Yarra City of Melbourne Brotherhood of St. Laurence Private collections in UK, USA and Australia Talks and Other Experience 2012 Visiting speaker – National School of Arts (Sydney/Australia) 2012 ArtSTART Mentor – Australia Council (Sydney/Australia) 2012 Judge – International Street Photography Award (London/UK) 2011 Supporter – Excerpt Magazine (Melbourne/Australia) 2011 Judge – International Street Photography Award (London/UK) 2011 Printed and Bound, panel discussion- Monash Gallery of Art (Melbourne/Australia) 2010 Is Photography Global? – Centre for Contemporary Photography, panel discussion – (Melbourne/Australia)