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As The World Falls Down #4
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Dress & War

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SANCTUARY, 2018
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Utero, 2018
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Lilli Waters



Melbourne-based Lilli Waters was raised in a handbuilt, mudbrick home on a commune in New South Wales. There was no running water or electricity, but she had the bush as her closest companion. The urge to be close to water and the natural world has stayed with her ever since – and today, she expresses her connection through her fine art photography.


She comes from a family line of women artists. Her mother is a well-regarded botanical artist, and her grandmother was a photojournalist during the Vietnam War and a former Australian of the Year. Both had a strong sense of social activism and a love for nature, and Lilli’s unusual upbringing instilled those same values in her.


A Lilli Waters image has a painterly quality, with macabre or off-kilter elements enlivened by emotion, a sense of movement, jewel-like colours and deft use of light. Although her personal art practice explores many different subjects, an ongoing preoccupation is capturing women in landscape. With their identities hidden and glowing bodies melding into the natural world around them, they encourage the viewer to look twice, beneath the surface of the work. She photographs women to empower both them and herself, bringing forth their strength and raw, honest edges.


Lilli brings the power of her fine art photography to a diverse range of commercial and private commissions. Her work has been published in magazines such as Elle, Yen, Art Aesthetica, Vogue Living and Real Living, and her photographs featured in the films Fifty Shades Darker in 2017 and Fifty Shades Freed in 2018. She was also invited to show works as part of the Venice Biennale Festival in 2017 and 2019, The Other Art Fair in Melbourne in 2019 and created a self-portrait for the ABC Art Bites documentary series: Mirror in 2018.



Selected Solo Exhibition


2019

Solo Show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

Others Dream, Modern Times, Melbourne, VIC

Things of Fire and Ash Remembered, Melbourne Museum, VIC


2018

Coral Lands, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, NSW


2017

Plastic Fish, Junior Space, Melbourne, VIC


2015

Anja, Red Gallery, Melbourne, VIC


2013

Things of Fire and Ash, Victoria Police Museum, Melbourne, VIC, touring Nationally


2012

She Raw, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

She Raw, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, VIC


Selected Recent Group Shows



2019

National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, NSW, touring Nationally

Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery


2018

PCP Collective, Perth Centre for Photography

ILFORD CCP Salon, Contemporary Centre of Photography

Summer Group Exhibition, Metro Gallery

The Luxury of Landscape, Pilazzo Pandolfini, Tuscany, Italy

The Last Line of Defence, Besser Space, Melbourne

Candyland for CanTeen Art Auction, NAB Graduate Fundraiser, Melbourne

Hyper, 222 Roslyn Gallery, Melbourne

Contemporary Art Awards Finalists, online group exhibition

STILL, National Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW


2017

Click 17 Photographic Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery

Her Way, 5 Rankins Lane Gallery, Melbourne


2016

BlümchenSex, Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany

Phantom Paradise, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney


2015

Keeping Company: Saltwater, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney Unreal, Head On Photo Festival, M2 Gallery, Sydney

ANJA Pop-Up Exhibition, Leonard St, Melbourne


2014

Finalists, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney


2013

Stockroom, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne

Art in Mind, The Brick Lane Gallery, London

Head On Photo Festival, State Library of NSW

The Kinglake Project, The Cube Gallery, Melbourne


2012

SUB 1000, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne

Kodak Salon, CCP, Melbourne

Doug Moran House Contemporary Photographic Exhibition, NSW, touring Nationally


2011

The Collective, Off The Kerb Gallery, Melbourne


2010

Snapshot 10/10, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne




Awards and Prizes


2019

Finalist, National Photographic Portrait Prize


2018

Finalist, Australian Photography Awards

Finalist, Art Aesthetica Art Prize, UK


2017

Finalist, Contemporary Art Awards

Top rated entries, Lens Culture Portrait Awards

Finalist, National Still Life Award

Finalist, Click 17 Photographic Art Prize, Brunswick St Gallery

Semi-Finalist, Head On Portrait Prize, Museum of Sydney


2015

Semi-Finalist, Head On Portrait Prize, Museum of Sydney

Top rated entries, Lens Culture Portrait Awards


2013

Finalist, Head On Portrait Prize

Highly Commended, Qantas Soya Award


2012

Highly Commended, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize

Semi-Finalist x 2, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize

Highly Commended, Qantas Soya Award


2011

Winner, She Raw Focus Project People's Choice


2003

Best Photographic Folio, Photographic Imaging College


2001

Atom Awards, Finalist, Senior Secondary Music Video Diegesis Award, Winner of Secondary Music Video



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