About the exhibition
Join us for the opening of The Mark of a Terrible Sun by Ioanna Sakellaraki, an intimate portrait of the lands and people of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the most seismically and volcanically active zone in the world. Opens on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Exhibition continues 6 March 2025 — 6 April 2025.
Benjamin in Matupit village, Mount Tavurvur volcanic zone, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, 2023. Archival Pigment print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag 310 gsm, mounted and framed in Tasmanian Oak box frame, non-reflective art glass 50 x 50cm, Edition of 3 + 2 AP
About the artist
Ioanna Sakellaraki (b.1989) is a Greek visual artist and researcher currently working between Greece and Australia. Her work investigates the relationship between collective cultural memory and fiction. Drawing emphasis on the photographic object, process and encounter, she explores the boundaries of a primitive, yet futuristic vision of places and people.
She is a graduate of Journalism with an MA in Photography from The Royal College of Art and an MA in Cultural Studies. Following her interest in inter-disciplinary critical theory in relation to visual arts, she was awarded an International Scholarship for undertaking her PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at RMIT University in Melbourne.
She is the recipient of The Royal Photographic Society Bursary Award 2018 and was the winner of a Sony World Photography Award in 2020. In 2019, she was awarded with the Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant in Tokyo and the International Photography Grant Creative Prize and in 2021 received further funding from Arts Council England. Nominations include: the Inge Morath Award by Magnum Foundation in USA, the Prix HSBC, the Prix Levallois and the Prix Voies Off in France.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in art festivals and galleries with recent solo shows in Tokyo, Melbourne, Belfast, Braga, Greece and Berlin. Her projects have been featured in magazines such as The New Yorker, TIME, Aesthetica and Wallpaper and journals including The Guardian, Financial Times and Deutsche Welle. Her work has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Collection. Her monograph ‘The Truth is in the Soil’ is published by GOST Books.
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