Coming up at MAPh + Bowness Photography Prize > entries open
Join us Saturday 7 June for Protest is a creative action launch
Exhibition launch
Saturday 7 June at MAPh
1pm to 3pm
Free event > RSVP below
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the UN-declared International Women’s Year (1975), Protest is a creative act charts the relationship between art, protest and social change over the last five decades. Collectively, the historical and contemporary works from the 47 women and nonbinary artists in the exhibition show the importance of friendship and community, and the good that can come from working together to advocate and agitate for change. Curated by guest curator Kelly Gellatly and MAPh Senior Curator Angela Connor.
So many reasons to enter!
Submissions close in two weeks > 11.59pm Friday 13 June
This is a great year to enter the Bowness Photography Prize: its 20th year! And befitting the occasion, we’re celebrating. Read on for all the reasons why this is your year to enter.
• First prize: $50,000
• Two honourable mentions: $2500 each
• All finalists will be paid artist fees
• One selected artist will receive the Wai Tang Commissioing Award: $10,000 and the opportunity to exhibit a body of work in the next Bowness Photography Prize exhibition
• One selected artist will receive the Community Bank Pinewood People’s Choice Award: $5000
• All finalists are eligible for discounts with MAPh’s industry partners in printing, framing + delivery services
• For each paid entry you can submit three works
Lovers and misfits | Peter Milne
until 26 July
at Frankston Arts Centre
Lovers and misfits is an exhibition of portraits by Peter Milne taken during the formative years of his artistic practice. Milne first began taking photographs of his friends, family and the Melbourne punk scene in the 1970s and over the subsequent decades captured a flow of figures including Nick Cave, Anita Lane, Rowland S Howard and Polly Borland. These iconic and warm portraits document Milne’s friends before they would go on to play pivotal roles in Australia’s music and art scene.
This exhibition captures the transitory moments of the first wave of punk in Melbourne, and was curated by MAPh Senior Curator Angela Connor.
In the MAPh shop
Missing The basement already? The MAPh shop has a selection of postcards featuring original works by Prahran College students: James McArdle (pictured), Bill Henson, Stella Sallman, Jacqueline Mitelman, Christopher Köller, Robert Ashton, Philip Quirk and Graham Howe.
And they’re just five dollars! Click through to browse the selection and get your snapshot of 1970s photography, in a postcard.
King’s Birthday weekend
MAPh will be closed Monday 9 June, as per our usual closure on Mondays. We will be open 10 am to 4 pm Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 June.
Image captions:
Installation view, Lovers and misfits exhibition 2025
courtesy Frankston Arts Centre
James McARDLE
Hungry puddle, Elwood 1975
gelatin silver print
27.0 x 18.5 cm
Museum of Australian Photography, City of Monash Collection
donated 2025
