Media Release
Powerhouse Photography Commissions Announced
Powerhouse has today announced the recipients of two major photography commissions, the Powerhouse Photography Architectural Commission and the First Nations Right of Reply Photography Commission. Guwa-Koa, Gungarri, and Kuku Yalanji photographer Jo-Anne Driessens and Architecture photographer Tasha Tylee have each been awarded a $20,000 photography commission, which will see them collaborate with Powerhouse over the next 12 months to develop major new works.
The First Nations Right of Reply Photography Commission invites an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander photographer to undertake a commission that responds to the Powerhouse Collection with the intent to Indigenise, counter and investigate narratives of the applied arts and sciences through a First Nations lens.
Jo-Anne Driessens has developed her photography practice documenting community and place in urban, remote and regional Aboriginal communities over the past 30 years. Since completing a photography cadetship at the State Library of Queensland in 1999, Driessens has worked in various photography and curatorial roles with a focus on archival and anthropological research exhibition programs and Aboriginal Family history support.