Camille Perry is a queer artist whose practice explores the entanglements of photographic processes, ecological ethics, and the landscapes shaped by these intersections. Her work navigates the photo as both a tool for preserving memory and a medium reliant on exploitation and ruination, using her professional experience in a film-developing lab as a lens through which to question the cultural obsession with searching for permanence in an impermanent world. Perry’s research-based practice considers the material contradictions of photographic and moving image production, engaging with themes of time, the archive, and the fragility of human memory.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023: 'For Want Of Eternity', Conners Conners, Fitzroy Town Hall
2023: '[Re]Collection', Seventh Gallery, Richmond
EXHIBITIONS
2018: ‘Make Your Best Work Move’, Blindside, Melbourne CBD
2019: ‘Headway’, Gallery St.144, Curated by Camille Perry, St Kilda
2019: ‘Can I Please Have a Minute?’, VCA Artspace
2019: ‘We’ve Got Chemistry Baby’ Noir Darkroom, Brunswick East
2020: CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
2020: ‘Pure Nowhere; Backyard Show’, Frankston
2020: ‘Fire Relief Fundraiser and Festival’ at 79 Beauchamp St
2020: ‘Resolutions’ Gallery 17, Curated by Nixie St Clair, St Kilda
2020: ‘VCA Graduate Exhibition’, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank
2021: ‘Freighted Specs, of Bio-Dwellings’, VCA Artspace, Curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk, Southbank
2021: ‘An Ode To Time’, Assembly Point, Southbank
2021: ‘VCA Graduate Exhibition’, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank
2022: ‘Moving Visions’, LOOP Projection Space, Melbourne CBD
2022: ‘A Diachronic Wind’, MADA Gallery, Curated by Tim Riley Walsh, Caulfield East
2022: ‘The General Public’, 99% Gallery, Melbourne CBD
2022: 'After Hours’, Hillvale Gallery, Curated by Sarah Pannell, Jason Hamilton, Andy Johnson, Brunswick
2023: ‘AN/ARI Fundraiser’, AN/ARI, Balaclava
2023: ‘Fossilised Sunshine’ as part of Collective Polyphony Festival, Blindside ARI, Melbourne CBD
2024: ‘Lateral Roots and Thermochromatic Feedback’ Comma Collective Gallery, Brunswick East
2025: ‘Big Lesbian Fundraiser for Palestine’, Unassigned Gallery, Nour Abdullatif, Brunswick
2025: ‘Hands For Two Reasons’, Changing Room Gallery, Carlton
2025: ‘The Silver Curtain’ Grant Acquittal Screening, Mixed Zoning, Brunswick East
WORKSHOPS
2022: ’Collective Agitation’ Alternative Film Processing Workshop, Held at Woven Projects, East Brunswick
2022: ’Collective Agitation’ Alternative Film Processing Workshop, Held at ‘Uninstructing Photography’, KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent, Belgium
2022: ‘Collective Agitation’ Alternative Film Processing Workshop, Held at APAX Warehouse, Preston
2023: ‘Collective Agitation’ Alternative Film Processing Workshop, Held at Blindside ARI, Melbourne CBD
2024: Alternative Film Processing Workshop, held at Joya:AiR, Los Vélez, Andalucía, España.
EDUCATION
2017-2020: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts
2020-2021: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
LECTURES
2022: ’Collective Agitation’ Alternative Film Processing Lecture, Held at ‘Un-instructing Photography’, KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent, Belgium
2023: ‘Fossilised Sunshine; The materiality of Memory’ Lecture, Held at Melbourne University for The Masters of Architecture
2023: ‘The History of Alternative Photographic Practice’ Lecture, Held at Victorian College of the arts for the Photography Department
PUBLICATIONS
2021: ‘Freighted Specs, of Bio-Dwellings’, Zine designed and curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk, Naarm
2021: ‘Afterlives’, Journal of Art Criticism, Barnard College, Alex Foo and India Halsted, New York
2022: ‘Temperature’, Journal of Art Criticism, Barnard College, Edited by Alex Foo and India Halsted, New York
2023: ‘On Contemporary Photography; The Analog Resurgence In A Digital World’ Demure Magazine, Edited by Eliza Byrne, Melbourne
REVIEWS
2020: Mass MeMo, Photography, Victorian College of the Arts, Claire Osborn Li
2021: Mass MeMo, Honours, Victorian College of the Arts, Eliza Baker.
AWARDS
2017: Peoples Choice Award, CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
2020: Roger Davies Social Justice Award, Victorian College of the Arts awarded by The University of Melbourne, Southbank
2020: Best Analogue Print Showing Technical Skill, CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
2022: NGVWA Award, Victorian College of the Arts awarded by The NGVWA
2024: VCA50 Development Grant Award by the VCA Foundation