Gallery Representation
ReadingRoom
186 High Street, Northcote
Melbourne / Naarm
+61 (0) 424 627 751
office at areadingroom.com
www.areadingroom.com
Education
2017
M.F.A, University of Hartford, Hartford, U.S.A
2010
B.A (Photography), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2024
This time last year (how to make a picture), ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
2019
Too Much to Dream, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Greetings, CAVES, Melbourne, Australia
2016
A light on the wall, neospace, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Salt, Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, Yunnan, China
Salt, Edmund Pearce gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibitions [selection]
2023
On Holy Water, Platform Art Space, Geelong, Australia
2022
Group Exhibition, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
You See What She’s Saying, curated by Emma Neale & Francis E. Parker, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2021
Salt-Loving; Halophile, curated by Josephine Mead, Blindside, Melbourne [online presentation]
Surreal Landscapes, curated by Danny Lacy, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
2020
What’s outside the window?, curated by Olivia Radonich, ReadingRoom, Melbourne [online presentation]
In praise of care, curated by Isobel Parker Philip, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney [online presentation]
Shadow catchers, curated by Isobel Parker Philip, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia
National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, Australia
2019
Bodies of Work, curated by Benison Kilby, Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Stories we tell ourselves, curated by Ashlyn Davis, Earl & Virginia Green Gallery, La Mirada, U.S.A
2018
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA, Gold Coast, Australia
Stories we tell ourselves, curated by Ashlyn Davis, Wrong gallery, Marfa, U.S.A
The Art of Collecting, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2017
CAVES Fundraiser, CAVES, Melbourne, Australia
An unorthodox flow of images, curated by Naomi Cass & Pippa Milne, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
CAVES offsite @ Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Establishment Hotel, Sydney, Australia
13, curated by Robert Lyons, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, USA
Specimen, curated by Giles Fielke, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2013
lose/you, curated by Jordan Sullivan, The Jane Hotel, New York City, U.S.A
The Wild & The Innocent, curated by Jordan Sullivan, Clic bookstore & gallery, New York City, U.S.A
Grants, Prizes
2020
C/O Berlin Talent Award [nomination]
Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation, National Assistance Program for the Arts
National Photography Prize [finalist]
2019
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize [finalist]
2018
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award [finalist]
National Photographic Portrait Prize [finalist]
MACK First Book Award [nomination]
2017
Stanley Fellman Award, University of Hartford
2015
Australian Photobook of the Year [finalist]
2014
Golden Peacock nomination for excellent photography works, Xishuangbanna Foto Festival
2010
Irwin & McLaren landscape award, RMIT University [finalist]
Residencies
2019
Metro Tunnel Creative Program Artist in Residence, Melbourne
Police Point Artist in Residence Program, Mornington Peninsula
Teaching, Readings, Talks [selection]
2024
Sessional Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Visiting Critic, RMIT University, Melbourne
2023
Sessional Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
2022
Anatomy of a Portrait, Penumbra Foundation, New York City
When your identity is no longer your own, 7am podcast, Melbourne
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture, Northern College of the Arts & Technology, Melbourne
Surreal Landscapes Artist Talk, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne
Anatomy of a Portrait, Penumbra Foundation, New York City
Visiting Artist Lecture, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
In-converstation with Ziga Testen & Dan Rule, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2020
Nearest Truth Podcast with Brad Feuerhelm, London
Spring Semester Visiting Critic, Penumbra Foundation, New York City
Ongoing Mentor, Image Threads, New York City
Visiting Artist Lecture, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
M.A Mentor, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Technology, Sydney
2019
Too much to dream bricolage poetry reading, ReadingRoom, Melbourne
Heavy III with Jack Harries, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
To Become Two with Alex Martinis Roe, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
2018
Soft Copy with Brian & Amy Kanagaki, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
Libraryman — A selection from a decade with Tony Cederteg, ReadingRoom, Melbourne
In-conversation with Tony Cederteg, University of Technology, Sydney
Curating for publication with Elias Redstone & Hannah Mathews, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
Negative Press with Rose Nolan, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
Filling in the gaps — photography, writing & context with Daniel Palmer, Pippa Milne & Dan Rule [facilitating]
2016
Start Something New with Apple, Flagship Apple Store, Sydney
2015
On self-publishing, Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Photobook Melbourne panel discussion, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Writing [selection]
2022
Losing my identity, published in The Saturday Paper, Melbourne
2018
Interview with Matthew Genitempo, published in Heavy III, Sydney
Book Review: Chikara Umihara — Whispering Hope, published in Perimeter x Heavy [online]
2017
Book Review: Seiichi Furuya – Why Dresden, published in Perimeter x Heavy [online]
Bibliography [selection]
2021
Dunne, Matt. “Emma Phillips - Send me a lullaby.” c4 Journal
Emma Phillips: Send me a lullaby. Text by Elias Redstone. Perimeter Books x PHOTO 2021, Melbourne
Emma Phillips & Jenia Fridlyand: Distant Zine. Distant Zine, Illinois
A New Nothing 00. Text by Ben Alper & Nat Ward, Sleeper Studio, Minnesota
2020
Boetker-Smith, Daniel, “Five photographers you should know from Melbourne’s PHOTO 2021.” British Journal of Photography
Soft Copy #003, Soft Copy, New York City
2019
Cattach, Ella. “Emma Phillips: Too Much to Dream.” Memo Review
2016
Gillespie, Katherine. “Gently Unsettling Small Town Photographs.” Vice Magazine
Emma Phillips: A light on the wall. Text by Dan Rule. Perimeter Books, Melbourne
2014
Rich, Conor. “The Value of Self-Publishing.” Photo District News Magazine
Competitions Judged
2020
Photo 2021 x Perimeter International Photobook Prize
2019
Perimeter Small Book Prize
2018
Perimeter Small Book Prize
2016
Australia & New Zealand Photobook Award
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Victorian Department of Education
ReadingRoom
186 High Street, Northcote
Melbourne / Naarm
+61 (0) 424 627 751
office at areadingroom.com
www.areadingroom.com
Education
2017
M.F.A, University of Hartford, Hartford, U.S.A
2010
B.A (Photography), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2024
This time last year (how to make a picture), ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
2019
Too Much to Dream, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Greetings, CAVES, Melbourne, Australia
2016
A light on the wall, neospace, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Salt, Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, Yunnan, China
Salt, Edmund Pearce gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibitions [selection]
2023
On Holy Water, Platform Art Space, Geelong, Australia
2022
Group Exhibition, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
You See What She’s Saying, curated by Emma Neale & Francis E. Parker, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2021
Salt-Loving; Halophile, curated by Josephine Mead, Blindside, Melbourne [online presentation]
Surreal Landscapes, curated by Danny Lacy, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
2020
What’s outside the window?, curated by Olivia Radonich, ReadingRoom, Melbourne [online presentation]
In praise of care, curated by Isobel Parker Philip, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney [online presentation]
Shadow catchers, curated by Isobel Parker Philip, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia
National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, Australia
2019
Bodies of Work, curated by Benison Kilby, Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Stories we tell ourselves, curated by Ashlyn Davis, Earl & Virginia Green Gallery, La Mirada, U.S.A
2018
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA, Gold Coast, Australia
Stories we tell ourselves, curated by Ashlyn Davis, Wrong gallery, Marfa, U.S.A
The Art of Collecting, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2017
CAVES Fundraiser, CAVES, Melbourne, Australia
An unorthodox flow of images, curated by Naomi Cass & Pippa Milne, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
CAVES offsite @ Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Establishment Hotel, Sydney, Australia
13, curated by Robert Lyons, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, USA
Specimen, curated by Giles Fielke, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2013
lose/you, curated by Jordan Sullivan, The Jane Hotel, New York City, U.S.A
The Wild & The Innocent, curated by Jordan Sullivan, Clic bookstore & gallery, New York City, U.S.A
Grants, Prizes
2020
C/O Berlin Talent Award [nomination]
Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation, National Assistance Program for the Arts
National Photography Prize [finalist]
2019
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize [finalist]
2018
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award [finalist]
National Photographic Portrait Prize [finalist]
MACK First Book Award [nomination]
2017
Stanley Fellman Award, University of Hartford
2015
Australian Photobook of the Year [finalist]
2014
Golden Peacock nomination for excellent photography works, Xishuangbanna Foto Festival
2010
Irwin & McLaren landscape award, RMIT University [finalist]
Residencies
2019
Metro Tunnel Creative Program Artist in Residence, Melbourne
Police Point Artist in Residence Program, Mornington Peninsula
Teaching, Readings, Talks [selection]
2024
Sessional Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Visiting Critic, RMIT University, Melbourne
2023
Sessional Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
2022
Anatomy of a Portrait, Penumbra Foundation, New York City
When your identity is no longer your own, 7am podcast, Melbourne
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture, Northern College of the Arts & Technology, Melbourne
Surreal Landscapes Artist Talk, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne
Anatomy of a Portrait, Penumbra Foundation, New York City
Visiting Artist Lecture, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
In-converstation with Ziga Testen & Dan Rule, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2020
Nearest Truth Podcast with Brad Feuerhelm, London
Spring Semester Visiting Critic, Penumbra Foundation, New York City
Ongoing Mentor, Image Threads, New York City
Visiting Artist Lecture, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
M.A Mentor, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Technology, Sydney
2019
Too much to dream bricolage poetry reading, ReadingRoom, Melbourne
Heavy III with Jack Harries, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
To Become Two with Alex Martinis Roe, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
2018
Soft Copy with Brian & Amy Kanagaki, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
Libraryman — A selection from a decade with Tony Cederteg, ReadingRoom, Melbourne
In-conversation with Tony Cederteg, University of Technology, Sydney
Curating for publication with Elias Redstone & Hannah Mathews, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
Negative Press with Rose Nolan, Perimeter Books, Melbourne [facilitating]
Filling in the gaps — photography, writing & context with Daniel Palmer, Pippa Milne & Dan Rule [facilitating]
2016
Start Something New with Apple, Flagship Apple Store, Sydney
2015
On self-publishing, Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Photobook Melbourne panel discussion, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Writing [selection]
2022
Losing my identity, published in The Saturday Paper, Melbourne
2018
Interview with Matthew Genitempo, published in Heavy III, Sydney
Book Review: Chikara Umihara — Whispering Hope, published in Perimeter x Heavy [online]
2017
Book Review: Seiichi Furuya – Why Dresden, published in Perimeter x Heavy [online]
Bibliography [selection]
2021
Dunne, Matt. “Emma Phillips - Send me a lullaby.” c4 Journal
Emma Phillips: Send me a lullaby. Text by Elias Redstone. Perimeter Books x PHOTO 2021, Melbourne
Emma Phillips & Jenia Fridlyand: Distant Zine. Distant Zine, Illinois
A New Nothing 00. Text by Ben Alper & Nat Ward, Sleeper Studio, Minnesota
2020
Boetker-Smith, Daniel, “Five photographers you should know from Melbourne’s PHOTO 2021.” British Journal of Photography
Soft Copy #003, Soft Copy, New York City
2019
Cattach, Ella. “Emma Phillips: Too Much to Dream.” Memo Review
2016
Gillespie, Katherine. “Gently Unsettling Small Town Photographs.” Vice Magazine
Emma Phillips: A light on the wall. Text by Dan Rule. Perimeter Books, Melbourne
2014
Rich, Conor. “The Value of Self-Publishing.” Photo District News Magazine
Competitions Judged
2020
Photo 2021 x Perimeter International Photobook Prize
2019
Perimeter Small Book Prize
2018
Perimeter Small Book Prize
2016
Australia & New Zealand Photobook Award
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Victorian Department of Education