Anne Ferran, David Rosetzky and Simon Terrill at MAPh
Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now begins with the collection – a living, breathing archive at the heart of the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh). As caretaker of Australia’s only public collection solely dedicated to photography, MAPh holds an extraordinary and ever-evolving record of how we see ourselves and each other. This exhibition draws on this rich resource to explore the idea of youth and how it has been captured, constructed, celebrated and questioned in Australian photography.
Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Wheelers Hill, VIC 22 November 2025 – 22 February 2026
Anne Ferran in Women Photographers 1883–2018 at the National Gallery of Australia
Works from Anne Ferran’s celebrated series Scenes on the Death of Nature (1986) are currently featured in the National Gallery of Australia’s landmark exhibition Women Photographers 1883-2018. Denoting the vital and transformative role women have played in the medium’s history, the exhibition features work spanning more than 160 years.
Women Photographers 1883-2018 National Gallery of Australia 28 November 2025 – 3 May 2026
Anne Ferran’s works in Beyond the Ballerina at Wyndham Art Gallery has been reviewed in Memo by David Wlazlo.
In an excerpt from the review, Wlazlo writes, “…the dancer—striking red hair hanging down—seems to be in the process of gathering up the pieces of felt and fabric as though there are some accidentally left behind, as though (maybe) this is not a dance but an expression of mourning…”
Anne Ferran in Beyond the Ballerina at Wyndham Art Gallery
Anne Ferran in Beyond the Ballerina a group exhibition exploring notions of movement in visual art. Eight artists working across diverse media explore the future of dance as it merges with ritual, landscape, and technology. Through collaboration with dancers – using photography, video, virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D video – artists challenge our understanding of what dance is, where it can be experienced, and how we engage with it.
Beyond the Ballerina Wyndham Art Gallery 9 October – 21 December, 2025 Opening Event: 9 October, 6:30 – 8:30pm 177 Watton Street, Werribee, VIC 3030
Anne Ferran in ‘Radical Textiles’ at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Anne Ferran is included in the major exhibition Radical Textiles opening at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Featuring works from AGSA’s extensive international, Australian and First Nations collections of textiles and fashion, the exhibition celebrates the innovations, traditions and lore that has come to characterise working in fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.
On show in the exhibition is Ferran’s photogram work Untitled (blue wedding gown #1), 2003. Evoking a spectral yet bodily presence through this photographic technique, Ferran speculates on the history and life of the garment and its owner in this evocative work in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collection.
Radical Textiles Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarndanya/Adelaide 23 November 2024 – 30 March 2025
Anne Ferran’s iconic photographic series Scenes on the death of nature (1986) is included in the major exhibition Namedropping, recently opened at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Nipaluna/Hobart.
Bringing together over 200 artworks and objects, the sprawling exhibition emerges out of an interest in the nature of status and its preoccupations.
Namedropping Museum of New and Old Art (MONA), Nipaluna/Hobart 15 June 2024 – 21 April 2025
Anne Ferran in ‘Australian Female Photographers’ at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Anne Ferran’s seminal diptych Scenes on the Death of Nature (Scene I & II), 1986, is currently featured in a group exhibition Australian Female Photographers: From the Collection. The exhibition highlights forerunning women artists who have experimented and made decisive contributions to develop and further the rich tradition of photography in Australia throughout the past century.
Australian Female Photographers: From the Collection Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC 17 February – 16 June 2024
Anne Ferran in ‘Photography: Real and Imagined’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Anne Ferran’s photographic work ‘Scenes on the Death of Nature III’ is included in the group exhibition ‘Photography: Real and Imagined’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Showcasing more than 200 works sourced from the NGV’s extensive photography collection, the exhibition interrogates the proposition that photographs are either grounded in reality – a record, a document, a reflection of the world – or the product of imagination, storytelling and illusion.
Remarking on the acclaimed series ‘Scenes on the Death of Nature’ in 1987, Anne Ferran has said, “In their size and scale, their period connotations, their employment of classical conventions, the photographs are reminiscent of monumental sculpture which is, out of all art forms, the most public. It could be said of these photographs that the language they “speak” is so much a part of our culture that the audience already knows how to interpret them, even if it doesn’t “know” that it knows.”
Photography: Real and Imagined The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia 13 October 2023 – 28 January 2024
Anne Ferran is currently included in Return to nature, Monash Gallery of Art, 8 July -18 September 2022, and Robert Wilson: Moving portraits, Art Gallery of South Australia, 9 Jul – 3 Oct 2022.
‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’ by Anne Marsh
Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups including Catherine Bell, Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Sara Hughes, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Lindy Lee, Rosslynd Piggott, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Jane Trengove, with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique.
Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women’s art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the contemporary art landscape in Australia and internationally.
7 Sutton Gallery artists featured in landmark National Gallery of Australia initiative ‘Know My Name’
Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Helen Johnson, Lindy Lee and Rosslynd Piggott are included in Know My Name: Australia Women Artists 1900 to Now. A gender equity initiative of the NGA, Know My Name features a program of exhibitions, events, commissions, creative collaborations, publications and partnerships that highlight the diversity and creativity of women artist throughout history and to the present day.
