Artist Statement
Zoë Croggon is a Melbourne-based photographic artist working with sculpture, video, drawing and primarily collage. Her practice considers the relationship between the kinetic body and its environment, contemplating the choreography of the everyday and how deeply our surroundings inform the cadence of our lives.
Created largely from found photographs, her work subverts photographic representation, using sleight of hand to interrogate historical depictions of the body and space. Croggon’s longstanding interests in dance and literature underscore much of work, examining the fractures of translation between the body, the written word, and the image.
Biography
Zoë Croggon holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, and Miart, Milan. She has participated in group exhibitions at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Samstag Museum of Art, and Ian Potter Museum of Art.
Her work has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank, Art & Australia. She is the recipient of the Maddocks Prize (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship (2018), Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize (2015) and the ARTAND Australia Contemporary Art Award (2014). She published her second book, How to Cut an Orange, with Perimeter Editions in 2024.
Zoë is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.