Join exhibiting Australian artist Helen Grace for Time is a developing agent, a lecture charting key projects in her esteemed five-decade practice. Addressing ranging sociopolitical issues concerning women’s and workers’ rights, housing, and representation, among others, Grace has long worked with the possibilities of film and photography for documenting local and personal histories. Grace’s renowned suite of photographs, And awe was all we could feel documents her visits between 1978 and 1980 to the women-only community Amazon Acres, and is included in Photosynthesisers: Women and the lens (until 25 May). 

Helen Grace (b.1949 Gunditjmara Country) is an artist, writer, and teacher based in Sydney (Wangal Country) and (formerly) Hong Kong. She was the Founding Director of the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong and is now Associate, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. In 2012-13 she was Visiting Professor in the Department of English, National Central University, Taiwan on a National Science Council Fellowship. Helen is an award winning filmmaker and new media producer, with works held in the collections of Artbank, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of South Australia, and Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as private collections nationally and internationally. Recent projects include Photosynthesisers: Women and the lens, Te Uru, 2025; Justice for Violet and Bruce, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2022; The Housing Question (with Narelle Jubelin), Penrith Regional Galleries, Home of the Lewers Bequest, 2019; Thought Log, SCA Galleries, Sydney, 2016; and Map of Spirits, Gallery 4A, Sydney, 2015. Her recent books include Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image (Routledge, 2014) and Technovisuality: Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of Technology. (Co editors, Amy Chan, Kit Sze and Wong Kin Yuen) IB Tauris, 2016).