Anne Ferran is a photographer who works across digital and analogue photography (including large-scale photograms), and video; as well as incorporating installation and textiles. She has a particular interest in the photobook. Ferran work explores the often meager residues of Australia's colonial past, paying particular attention to the lives of anonymous women and children. Intellectually and emotionally engaging, sometimes austere, her photographs have explored histories of incarceration in prisons, asylums, hospitals and nurseries. They play with invisibility and anonymity, and are often haunted by things lost or unseen. In recent years her research interests have broadened to include the histories of animals, in particular birds and their habitats.
Read MoreSelected individual exhibitions include: Body of Water, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; CANAL, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2009; Anne Ferran: The Ground, The Air, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, 2008; Spill, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2002; Flock, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2001; You Are Here, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2000; Scenes on the Death of Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1986; and Carnal Knowledge, Performance Space, Sydney, 1984.
Recent group exhibitions include: Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria: Australia, Melbourne, 2012; Photography & Place: Australian landscape photography 1970s until now, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011; and Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010. Ferran has also featured in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, in 1990, and Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, in 1985. She works and lives in Sydney.
