Current Exhibitions

Trent Parke | Derek Henderson | Erwin Olaf

The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke's Family Album

Friday 21 November 2008 to Saturday 24 January 2009 (closed 25 December - 12 January)
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 1 & 2

"It was there - while staring into that bright red bucket, vomiting every hour on the hour for fifteen hours straight - that I started to think how strange families, suburbia, life, vomit and, in particular, Christmas really was..." Trent Parke

So began Trent Parke's latest and much-anticipated new body of work. The Christmas Tree Bucket is humour of the blackest hue. In a dazzling display of virtuoso storytelling Parke snaps the family rituals of Christmas with the in-laws and builds a gritty gothic tale of a nightmare lurking in the suburban shadows. Operatic in its vision and darkly satirical in its style, The Christmas Tree Bucket is a photographic masterpiece destined for cult status.

World premier.

Trent Parke is represented by Magnum Photos, London, and Stills Gallery, Sydney

IMAGES © Trent Parke/Magnum Photos

Erwin Olaf: Selected Works

Friday 21 November 2008 to Saturday 24 January 2009 (closed 25 December - 12 January)
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 4

ACP is proud to present works by one of Sydney's favourite Dutchmen: Erwin Olaf. Cinematic in their staging, his images are complex, open-ended dramas in which the viewer is drawn into the inner emotional life of the protagonists. Once considered the enfant terrible of European photomedia, Olaf has matured to create bitter-sweet evocations of human isolation that retain an erotic edge.

Erwin Olaf's latest monograph (published by Aperture, New York) will be launched at ACP on 7 December (see events listings on the reverse of this brochure for details).

Video works from the book are showing in the ACP Lounge.

IMAGE © Erwin Olaf The Kitchen 2005 from the Hope series
IMAGE © Erwin Olaf The The Dancing School 2004 from the Rain series
IMAGE © Erwin Olaf The The Hallway 2005 from the Hope series