Gregory Ackland

GREGORY ACKLAND

Gregory Ackland b.1976 is an Adelaide based photographer. Gregory Ackland is an artist, interested in digital media practices, conceptual photography and the moving image. He is influenced by the history of landscape painting and philosophy, in particular how experience might be rendered in an image.

His work two recent bodies of work feature the photographic series ‘Habitus’ , which references the traditions of Romanticism, but Ackland’s photographs also reflect the idea of a retreat inwards. A contemplation of the experience of place elevates these images beyond the picturesque to highlight an emotional response to the landscape.

The artist’s second series of works 'Heaven, Man & Earth’, depict exquisite floral arrangements in the style of Ikebana as a response to recent environmental disasters in Japan, New Zealand and Australia. The series is "about finding beauty even in tragedy, about picking yourself up, looking within to find the strength to go on…"

EDUCATION

current - DFEEST Leadership program, TAFE SA.

2011     
Double Diploma of Government and Government (Project Management)

2009        
Graduate Diploma of Education (Adult, Vocational & Workplace Learning), University of South Australia.

2004        
Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design. Photography Major, Adelaide Centre for the Arts.

1995        
Advanced Diploma of Visual Art and Applied Design. Photo/Video Major, North Adelaide School of Art.

EXHIBITIONS

2017
Illuminance, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2015
Heaven, Earth & Man, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Transit: Pictures for a Hotel Lobby, Level One Gallery, Adelaide Hilton

2014
Habitus, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2013/2015
Full Spectrum, Country Arts SA - touring exhibition program

2012
Heaven, Man & Earth, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2011        
Full Spectrum, Light Square Gallery, SA.
Curious Wonders, Light Square Gallery, SA.
Undercurrent – Before Today, SAWTOOTH, TAS

2010        
Undercurrent 2010, MOP Projects, NSW

2008        
Uneasy, Eye2eye Fine Art Gallery, SA
Undercurrent 2008: Underlying Landscapes, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA.  
Quidnunc, Light Square Gallery, SA
Urban Differences, Vitamin [Online] Gallery, SA.

2007   
Undercurrent, Queensland Centre for Photography, Bulimba, QLD.
Fifth Floor, Adelaide City Council, SA
Undercurrent, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA

2006        
A4 Play, Grenfell Centre, Adelaide, SA. Curator.

2005      
Hatched 05, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA
National Graduate Visual Art Exhibition.

2004        
Meta, Light Square Gallery, SA
Prohibited Exposure, Area 101, SA, SALA Festival. Guided walks with artist talks.
Affiliated 2, Forest One Artspace, Adelaide, SA
Light And Dark, Zuma Caffe, SA
Synecdoche’ Synagogue Place Art Studios, SA.  Adelaide Fringe Event. One Day Photographic Installation.

2003        
Affiliated, Pseudo Space, SA
Friends Of The Forest, Forest One Artspace, SA

1997        
Pixels, Click, Print, Ngapartji, SA.
Helpmann Academy Recent Graduates Exhibition.
Satellite, Adelaide Festival Centre SA
Inaugural Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition.

1996       
Surveil, Carclew Youth Arts Centre, SA. November.

BIOGRAPHY

2011    
Gregory Crewdson (USA) Master class and Public Lecture, coordinated and facilitated a master class and public lecture open to photography graduates nationally.

2010        
Arts Careers Day: Art Gallery South Australia. Presenter and panelist.

2009        
Generation C: Contemporary Chinese Photomedia at Artspace, Festival Centre.Presented opening speech and guided floor talk.
World Pinhole Day. Co-delivered a series of workshops with Toby Richardson from South Australian School of Art for Helpmann Academy Visual Arts partner school photography students.

2008    
Marian Drew (QLD) Master class, coordinated and facilitated a master class for Helpmann Academy Visual Arts partner school photography majors.
Vincent de Rooij (NL) Video Workshop coordinated and facilitated a one-week intensive live video workshop for Bachelor Visual Art & Design students at AC Arts.

2007        
Hasselblad Masters, semi-finalist in worldwide photography competition.
Undercurrent, curated and toured a photomedia exhibition to Queensland Centre for Photography, QLD.

2006        
The Phone Book Limited (UK) & ANAT, mobile phone workshop participant, AC Arts
Australia Council for the ARTS – New Media Scoping Study, ARTS SA, Adelaide.
A4 Play, coordinated a collaborative exhibition of Helpmann Academy Visual Arts partner schools responding to the Adelaide Festival of Arts, 25 Grenfell St.

2005    
Time Place Space 4, participant in two week New Media Arts workshop at AC Arts, SA.
Absolut (DE) ‘Cuts’ commissioned photographer for advertising & exhibition campaign.
NAVA: A Day in the Life of an Artist – respondent and panelist with Tamara Winikoff, Greg Mackie OAM, Bridget Currie, and Stephanie Radok, Nexus Art Space.