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

Derek Henderson: I go down to the river to pray

Friday 21 November to Sunday 14 December 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 3

Derek Henderson's rich Turneresque landscapes and brooding portraits evoke the power of the Waikato River and the commitment it demands from the people who live beside it. For both Maori and Pakeha (New Zealanders of non-Maori background) this river is a deep source of spiritual as well as material needs. These images were taken over several years and numerous visits to the Waikato River in New Zealand's North Island, an area from where Henderson's family originally comes. House-truckers, farmers, traditional owners, religious outsiders and refugees: these people live in a fragile world that has largely been bypassed by modernity.

IMAGE © Derek Henderson Corrin Maber 2007
IMAGE © Derek Henderson Motutieke Island 2007
IMAGE © Derek Henderson Roy Walker's House, Huntly 2007

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