Wanderings - Digital / Film & Polaroid
Personal Work | Catherine Black
Alongside commissions, Cat maintains an active personal practice, experimenting with alternative and analogue photography.
President of Offline Photographic Inc. & Resident Artist to District Darkroom in Coburg North.
Offiline is an artist-led photography NFP organisation, supporting traditional and alternative photographic practices, with a particular focus on analogue photography and printing.
Working towards opportunities for photographers to collaborate, develop, exhibit, present, publish, promote and distribute work through exhibitions, workshops, publications and collaborative projects.
Support - Encourage - Develop - Experiment - Exhibit.
Artist CV.
2026 Creatives for Creatives | XYZ Gallery. ‘Nitida’ and ‘The Love of a DOP & his first assist’
2026 Rejected | Coburg Studios, co-curator and exhibitor with District Darkroom Co-op.
2026 Magnet Gallery | Summer Salon. Photographs from New York.
2025 Ballarat Bienalle Open Program | Come Sit With Me | Solo works at Aunty Jacks
2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize | Finalist June 2024 | ‘Holly’
2024 Australian Photography Awards | Shortlist | ‘Danielle’
2023 The Capture Awards, 2023 | Placed Top 10 - Fashion and Advertising category for ‘Il dolce far niente,’
Published print and online Summer 2024 issue of Capture magazine.
2023 Ballarat International Foto Biennale | Finalist for Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, Ballarat Town Hall. ‘Holly’
2023 F-Stop Photography Mag, Issue #121 October - November 2023 | Catherine Black & Valentina Casalini — A Perpetual Season / Pas de deux
2021 Monash Gallery of Art | Open call exhibition, STAGES: Life in Lockdown. Atrium Gallery.
2018 ILFORD CCP Salon / Centre for Contemporary Photography AUS | Group Exhibition | Photograph subject: Framed 20x30’’ Titled ‘The Bodyguard.’
2018 Part 1 | Goons, Marfa Gallery Melbourne AUS | Personal photographic exhibit focusing on a small isolated ‘alternative living’ community in East Gippsland. Raised over $1400 for wildlife carers in Victoria.
2014 The Bernard Shaw, Dublin IE (Personal Exhibition with Graciela Vilagudin) Duo exhibition | Featuring 20x30’’ mounted photographic portraits of the locals in Portobello, Dublin.
2013 See Me, Times Square NYC (Group Digital Show) Group Exhibition | Varied images and photography subjects.
2012 Head On Portrait Prize | Finalist AUS Photograph subject: Documentary style of hipsters dancing. Titled ‘House of Love.’
Cat Black + Josh Lynott
Microsm
work in progress / coming 2026