Title: White Against Red Series
Artist statement
I began work on White Against Red during a 2015 artist residency on Suomenlinna, Finland, a fortified island with a long history of military conflict. This history included a time during the Finnish Civil War when captured Red soldiers were imprisoned there by the victorious Whites.1. My use of large-scale banners – a format used to commemorate historically significant events – is ironic, given that this period in Finland’s history has yet to be widely recognised or addressed.
The project continues an already established practice in my work, that of photographing performers as they improvise with lengths of coloured felt. On this occasion I worked with Finnish dancer and choreographer Ervi Siren. Our collaboration evolved in ways I had not expected, as Ervi’s performance – she was a then a dancer in her 60s – allowed for particularly complex and nuanced interpretations of those past events.
"In the context of the Russian Civil War (1917-1923), the "Reds" and the "Whites" were the two primary opposing factions. The "Reds" were the Bolsheviks, who advocated for a socialist state led by Vladimir Lenin, and formed the Red Army. The "Whites" were an alliance of anti-Bolshevik groups, including monarchists, militarists, and other political factions, united against the Bolsheviks"
Biography and CV
Anne Ferran has been exhibiting since the 1980s. Her landmark series Scenes on the Death of Nature, presented at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in 1987, established her as one of Australia’s leading photographic artists. In the mid 1990s she began working with the meagre residues of Australian colonial past, paying particular attention to the lives of women and children.
Intellectually and emotionally engaging, 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 unseen.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Ghost, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Birdlike, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2020 1–38, Sutton Gallery Viewing Room
2018 White Against Red, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Intimate Journals, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
2016 Flying Colour, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Intimate Journals, Upstairs Gallery, Bundanon Homestead
Shadow Land (solo survey exhibition), Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2015 Box of Birds, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Shadow Land (solo survey exhibition), Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
2014 Shadow Land (solo survey exhibition), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Box of Birds, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
Shadow Land (solo survey exhibition), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
2013 Box of Birds, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2013 Body of Water, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Songbirds are Everywhere, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2009 Lost to Worlds 2, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
CANAL, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Lost to Worlds 2, Stills Gallery, Sydney
The ground, the air, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
2008 The ground, the air, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2006 Backwater, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2004 Twice Removed, in collaboration with Anne Brennan, Maitland Regional Gallery
Any Body, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2003 1-38, Stills Gallery, Sydney
INSULA, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts
2002 Float, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Spill, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2001 Lost to Worlds, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Flock, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Lost to Worlds, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2000 You Are Here, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1999 In the Shape of a Body, The Physics Room, Christchurch
You are Here, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
First Light, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Longer than Life, Stills Gallery, Sydney
1998 Longer than Life, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Longer than Life, aGOG, Canberra
1996 Where are you now? Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1995 Secure the Shadow, in collaboration with Anne Brennan, Greenway Gallery, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
1993 as quiet as a fish, Selenium, Sydney
1991 No Words For This, first version, Mori Gallery, Sydney
No Words For This, second version, Canberra Contemporary Artspace
1990 Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg
Women in Focus, Vancouver
1989 I Am the Rehearsal Master Part 2, Street Level, Penrith
1989 I Am the Rehearsal Master, Australian Centre for Photography touring exhibition
1988 C’est moi le répétiteur, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1987 Scenes on the Death of Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1986 Scenes on the Death of Nature, Performance Space Gallery, Sydney
1984 Carnal Knowledge, Performance Space Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2024 In Essence: Contemporary Photography and Film from the Collection, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Radical Textiles, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Dreams Nursed in Darkness, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Namedropping, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
2023 Death Love Art, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra
Photography: Real and Imagined, NGV Australia, Melbourne
Photography and the Performative, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney
Bright Sparks: Photography and the Talbot Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK
2022 Robert Wilson: Moving portraits, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Return to Nature, Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Melbourne
XXX: Celebrating 30 Years of Sutton Gallery, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Fabrications, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Re/production: Australian art from the 1980s and 1990s, 16 Albermarle Project Space, NSW
Tension(s) 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW, and national tour
2019 In Her Words, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
2018 Legacy. Your collection. Our story, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Hold still: the photographic performance, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Odile, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong
In site: process, performance, documentation, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Runes: Photography and Decipherment, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2017 Every Brilliant Eye: Australian art of the 1990s, NGV, Melbourne
Inspiracje Festival, Szczecin, Poland
Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Curtain Call, Stills Gallery, Sydney
From the Darkness …, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
2016 Emanations: the art of the cameraless photograph, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth
Contemporary Cameraless Photography, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum, Albury
2015 Earth matters: contemporary photographers in the landscape, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Some Australian Photographs: Marian Drew, Anne Ferran, James Tylor, Justine Varga, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui
Doing Time, Verge Gallery, Sydney
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Constructed Worlds, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Bookmarked, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2014 Photography Meets Feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Reticulation, Verge Gallery, Sydney
The Sceptical Image, SCA Galleries, Sydney
2013 Photo L.A., with Queensland Centre for Photography, Los Angeles
New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Air Born, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin
Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria: Australia, Melbourne
2012 Temperament Spectrum, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria: Australia, Melbourne
Inspiring Artists: recipients of the Pat Corrigan artists’ grants, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland
Naked Light, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae and McNamara Gallery, Whanganui NZ
Alchemy (curated by Nicholas Tsoutas; collaborative work with Mireille Astore), SCA Gallery, Sydney
Kammerspeil: photography and video works by 11 artists from the fotobook Festival Dummy Book Award, Spinnerei, Leipzig
Controversy: the power of art (curated by Vivien Gaston), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2012 Westpac Redlands Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2011 Sydney and Sookmyung, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea
Toxicity, SCA Galleries, Sydney
Looking at Looking: the photographic gaze, National Gallery of Victoria, International, Melbourne
The Fragmented Body, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Inner Worlds, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Photography & Place: Australian landscape photography 1970s until now, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2010 Views from the Vanishing Point, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
Damage, Verge Gallery, Sydney
Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Living Deadly: haunted surfaces in contemporary art, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
DocumentA, Kings Lynn, UK
Time travel: reimagining the past, Tweed River Art Gallery
2009 Higashikawa International Photography Festival Award Winner's Exhibition, Higashikawa Bunker Gallery, Japan
2008 The Stuff of History, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics, The Amie and Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Centre, The City University of New York, US
2007 Our Fathers (with Anne Noble), McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand Role Play: Portrait Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Reveries: photography and mortality, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and Queensland University Gallery, Brisbane
For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora
Other Lives, UWS Art Gallery, University of Western Sydney
Port Arthur Project, Port Arthur, Tasmania
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2006 Girl Band (curated by Barbara Flynn), The Deloitte Foundation, Sydney
For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
William and Winifred Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Zero: new work by contemporary New Zealand and Australian photographers, Te Manawa Museum and Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and touring in NZ
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2005 Points of View: Australian Photography 1985–95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Still Present: Exploring Psychiatric Institutions in Photography, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
The Lake, Taipei Artists Village Gallery, Taiwan
2004 The Line Between Us: the maternal relation in contemporary photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
5 in Focus: Contemporary Women Photo Artists, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Gallery
Siteseeing, CAFA Gallery, Beijing and SCA Gallery, Sydney
2003 Sample, The Female Orphan School, University of Western Sydney
The Barcelona Studio: Fragments of a Brief History, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
2nd Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
First Impressions: contemporary Australian photograms, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award exhibition (winner), Gold Coast Art Centre, Q
Fieldwork, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square
When I was young…, Global Arts Link, Ipswich
Out of the Dark, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
Arrivals Lounge: Recent Loans, Gifts and Purchases, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
The Enduring Glance: 20th century Australian photography from the Corrigan collection, Bendigo Art Gallery travelling exhibition
Photographica Australis, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
2001 A Passion for Pictures, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
From Pinhole to Pixel, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney
The Lightness of Being, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Images of Women by Women, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Current Shifts: 4 contemporary photographers, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
New Acquisitions: University of Western Sydney Collection, Penrith Regional Gallery
Telling tales: the child in contemporary photography, Monash University Gallery touring exhibition
Contemporary Photo-Art from Australia, Neuer Berlin Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition
Axiom, Australia Council for the Arts foyer, Sydney
1999 Silver, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney
What is this thing called photography?Photography 1975 - 1985, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1996 The Power to Move, Queensland Art Gallery
City of Hobart Art Prize exhibition, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1995 Politique, with Anne Brennan, Katherine Brennan, Tanya Eccleston, Tess Horwitz, Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Canberra
Insight: Women's Photographs from the Collection, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography touring exhibition
1994 Pictograms, Monash University Gallery touring exhibition
Critic's Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1993 Flowers, Herbs, Human Sweat and Animal Breath, Long Gallery, U. of Wollongong
The Kodak Acquisition Fund: Tenth Anniversary Show, National Gallery of Australia
Shift (with Liz Coats and Liz Day), Performance Space Gallery, Sydney
1992 Medium Density, Australian National Gallery
Experimenta, Victorian Centre for Photography, Melbourne
1991 The Corporeal Body, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Corriger les lieux: apres la photographie de voyage, Maison de la culture,
Frontenac, Montréal, Canada
Frames of Reference, Pier 4/5, Sydney
Fragmentation and Fabrication, Art Gallery of South Australia
A Constructed Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria
1990 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Aurora Australis, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Photographs Updated, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, California
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, and Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art from Australia: Eight Contemporary Views, Australian Exhibitions Touring Agency: Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
1988 Australian Photography: the 1980s, Australian National Gallery
Shifting Focus, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Serpentine Gallery, London
New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester NY
1987 Borderlines, Australian Regional Galleries
Deception (with Elizabeth Day, Melody Cruickshank, Mandy Smith), First Draft, Sydney
1986 Gods, Demi-gods and Demi-demi-gods, Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide
1985 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Screenings
2009 CANAL, The Nunnery, London
2011 Illuminations, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
2012 Illuminations, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
Writing / artist books
2022 Ferran, Anne. Yvette Hamilton: On space, time and light, catalogue essay, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW
2021 Ferran, Anne. Sylvia Griffin: The skin in seven layers, the deepest last, catalogue essay, Airspace Gallery, Marrickville, NSW
2020 Ferran, Anne. Emilio Cresciani: States of Change, catalogue essay, PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra
2016 Ferran, Anne. Artist’s Library, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, NSW
2014 Prison Library, Self-published limited edition artist book
2013 Johnston Felicity and Anne Ferran, ed. Anne Ferran: Shadow Land, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth and Power Publications, Sydney
2012 Ferran, Anne. “La Triennale 2012: Intense Proximity,” Art & Australia 50/2, Summer
2010 Ferran, Anne. Helen Pynor: OnLiquid Ground, catalogue essay, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2008 Ferran, Anne. David Watson: Walking with Cars, catalogue essay, Brush Farm House, Sydney.
2004 Ferran, Anne. “Anne Marsh, ‘The Dark Room: Photography and the Theatre of Desire’,” Art Monthly Australia, Dec. 2004 – Feb. 2004, no. 176
2002 Ferran, Anne. “Sue Ford: Shadow Portraits, catalogue essay, Arc One at Span, Melbourne
Ferran, Anne. “Empty,” Photofile 66, Winter
Ferran, Anne. Lost to Worlds, exhibition booklet
2000 Ferran, Anne. “The body in the library,” Art Monthly 130, July
Ferran, Anne. “Longer than Life,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 1, no.1
Ferran, Anne. You Are Here, self-published limited edition concertina book
1999 Ferran, Anne. “Rollcall,” in Casula Works: Public Art at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Ferran, Anne. “Sue Ford: Somewhere in France, 1917”, Art Monthly 124, October
1997/8 Ferran, Anne. “In the Air, on the Ground: Sue Pedley – Listening to
Clara,
Ethel and Ada,” Eyeline 35, Summer
1997 Ferran, Anne. Photography’s still living body, warm to the touch,” Photofile 52, November. Also in Photo Files: an Australian Photography Reader, edited by Blair French, Power Institute & Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Ferran, Anne. “Faces.” in Faces 1976-1996: Sue Ford & Ben Ford (cat.). Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Ferran, Anne. “Notes from Home,” Art Work 35, July
Ferran, Anne. “10th Biennale of Sydney: Manniko, Mihailov, Peryer”, Photofile 49, November
1995 Ferran, Anne. “Released from Custody,” Art Monthly 84, October
Brennan, Anne, and Anne Ferran. “Secure the Shadow,” Photofile 45, August
1988 Ferran, Anne. “C”est moi le répétiteur,” Photofile 6, no.2
Ferran, Anne. “Choices: Leah MacKinnon,” in Feminist Narratives (catalogue), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Ferran, Anne. “In Full View,” Photofile 4, no.4, Autumn
Ferran, Anne. “Imaging,” Photofile 4, no.2, Spring
Collections
Artbank, NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Bendigo Art Gallery
Bundanon, New South Wales
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
George Eastman House, Rochester NY, USA
Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
Sydney Living Museums
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA
Maitland Regional Gallery
Monash Gallery of Art
Monash University
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
National Museum of Australia
Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin NZ
Parliament House, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery
Tamworth Regional Gallery
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
University of Melbourne
University of Queensland Art Museum
University of Sydney Union
University of Western Sydney
University of Wollongong
Wesfarmers
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
Wollongong City Gallery
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Ennis, Helen. “Unsettling: the photographic work of Sue Ford and Anne Ferran.” In Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies, edited by M. Arnold and M. Meskimmon. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Brollo, Deidre. “Fumbling hands and phantom limbs: the photograph, the hand and the artist’s book,” Journal of Artists’ Books, JAB39, Spring 2016.
Ewington, Julie. “In Praise: Anne Ferran, Judith Wright, Lindy Lee,” Eyeline 84, 2016.
“Anne Ferran,” Pipeline 43, July/August 2014.
Robb, Leigh. “An absent presence: Anne Ferran’s Shadow Land,” Art Monthly Australia 268, April 2014.
Judd, Craig. “Anne Ferran’s birds in space,” Photofile 94, autumn/winter 2014.
Frost, Andrew. “Anne Ferran: Shadow Land – review,” The Guardian, Wed 19th February 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/feb/19/a….
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Awards & Residencies
2019 Hill End Artist Residency
2018 Bundanon Artist Residency
2018 Australia Council grant: Arts projects for individuals and groups
2015 Australia Council Helsinki Studio Residency
2015 Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowship
2015 Bundanon Artist Residency
2012 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Fund: New Work Grant
2009 Higashikawa International Photographer Award
2008 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Fund: New Work Grant
2005 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Fund: New Work Grant
2005 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Fund: London Studio Residency
Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award
2002 Artist in Residence, National Museum of Australia
2001 Artists at Work residency, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin
1999 New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Women and Arts Fellowship
1999 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Fund: New Work Grant
1998 Historic Houses Trust of NSW: Artist in Residence, Rouse Hill estate
1997 University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury: Artist in Residence
1997 Australia Council Barcelona Studio residency
1994-5 Historic Houses Trust: Hyde Park Barracks, collaborative residency with Anne Brennan
1990 Canada Council: Foreign Visiting Artist Grant
1989 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board: Project Grant
1988 Nepean College of Advanced Education: Artist in Residence
1987 Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1986 Sydney College of the Arts: Peter Stuyvesant Scholarship
Australia Council, Visual Arts Board: Travel Grant
1985 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board: Project Grant
Curated exhibitions
Sara Oscar and Justine Varga: Photographs arranged in series, Sutton Gallery Project Space, 28 September – 20 October 2012