Polixeni Papapetrou

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Australian | 1960 - 2018

Polixeni Papapetrou was an Australian photographer who was born in 1960. Numerous key galleries and museums such as NGV Australia & The Ian Potter Centre have featured Polixeni Papapetrou's work in the past.Polixeni Papapetrou's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 82 USD to 3,168 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,168 USD for Beating Drums, sold at Leonard Joel, Melbourne in 2022. Polixeni Papapetrou has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Sydney Morning Herald in August 2024. The artist died in 2018.

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Animalesque ,2000

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Prize Thimble (Wonderland) - Polixeni Papapetrou

Prize Thimble (Wonderland) ,2004

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Olympia as Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Xie Kitchin as a Chinaman (off duty) - Polixeni Papapetrou

Olympia as Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Xie Kitchin as a Chinaman (off duty) ,2003

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In the Keilor Plains 1895 #2 2006 (from the Haunted Country series) inkjet print - Polixeni Papapetrou

In the Keilor Plains 1895 #2 2006 (from the Haunted Country series) inkjet print ,1895

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Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Brook Kitchin as St. George, 2003 - Polixeni Papapetrou

Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Brook Kitchin as St. George, 2003 ,2003

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Olympia as Alice Dreaming by the Riverbank 2003 - Polixeni Papapetrou

Olympia as Alice Dreaming by the Riverbank 2003 ,2003

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Past Exhibitions

Polixeni Papapetrou

Foley Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

04 Sep, 2008 - 11 Oct, 2008

Defining Place/Space: Contemporary Photography From Australia

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

San Diego | California | USA

06 Mar, 2019 - 22 Sep, 2019

Mirror Mirror

Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University

Newark | New Jersey | USA

08 Feb, 2018 - 20 Dec, 2018

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Articles

It鈥檚 Helped Launch Some of Our Biggest Names in Photography. Now It Faces a 鈥楧isaster鈥�

Sydney Morning Herald 23 Aug, 2024

One of Melbourne鈥檚 most important arts spaces, an incubator for photographic talent for almost 40 years, has lost its government funding, putting its future in doubt.

Giant Trees and Sugar Thrones: Inside the Dark World of Fairy Tales

Sydney Morning Herald 08 Mar, 2024

Most fairy tales were written for adults. When Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was compiling the stories we know today as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Puss in Boots, the very idea of 鈥渃hildhood鈥� was relatively new.

National Gallery of Victoria Opens the Most Comprehensive Explorations of Portraiture Ever Mounted in Australia

ArtDaily 04 Apr, 2022

WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture ever mounted in Australia and the first鈥痚xhibition鈥痶o bring together the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Portrait Gallery,鈥疌anberra.

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鈥� ..Capturing the playful and sometimes emotional exchanges of her adolescent models, Papapetrou cinematically portrays a freedom and self-determination that children once experienced... 鈥�
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Stills Gallery

鈥� .. Papapetrou鈥檚 art practice has involved an intimate collaboration with her children and their friends for over a decade... 鈥�
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Benalla Art Gallery

鈥� ..celebrated for an oeuvre that has consistently tested the boundaries of performance and photography, reality and fantasy, childhood and adulthood, Lost Psyche marks a significant return for Papapetrou... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Papapetrou, photographed flowers obtained from the cemetery against a black backdrop to invoke ideas about mourning and remembrance... 鈥�
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鈥� ..For Papapetrou, whose own plot is in the cemetery, and who, through illness, has faced her own mortality, it was a challenging and thought provoking assignment... 鈥�
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