STUDIES

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 1993)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

• Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, New York, 2010
• Hijacked 2, Big City Press, Perth, 2010
• Anne Marsh, Australian Photography and Photographers, MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2009
• Glenis Israel, Artwise Contemporary 2, Jacaranda, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, Milton, Qld, 2009, pp. 43-50
• Rachel Power, The Divided Heart: black dog books, Melbourne, 2008, pp. 167-176
• Anne Higonnet, Rachel Lafo , Kate Dempsey (ed.), Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts, 2008
• Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2007, pp. 260-265
• Adrian Martin, ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2007, pp. 260-265
• Susan McCulloch, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The Meigunyah Press and Aus Art Editions, 2006, pp. 754-5, p.776
• Nikos Papastergiadis, Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday, Rivers Oram Press, London. 2006, p. 104-107
• Martha Langford, ‘Mirroring Ourselves, Recasting Otherness, After Alice: Angela Grossman and Polixeni Papapetrou’, Image and Imagination, ed. Martha Langford, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2005, p. 2, 75-80
• Anne Marsh, ‘The Child and the Archive’, The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 249-259 and illus. figs.65-68)
• Barry Divola, ‘The Day the Music Died’, Fan Club, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998 pp. 216- 222

Catalogue Essays

• Susan Bright, Between Worlds, 2009
• Dr Youngsil Sohn, ‘Image and Imagination’, Alice’s Mirror, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul, Korea 2009
• Dr Youngsil Sohn, Humanscape, Seoul International Photography Festival, Seoul, Korea 2008
• Yusuke Minami, Artist File 2008, The National Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan 2008
• Natalie King, Games of Consequence, 2008
• Catherine O’ Donoghue and Steven Tonkin and ‘When Visual and performing arts align’, Silver-Lined: Contemporary artists and the Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2008
• Penny Teale, FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne, 2008
• Eiichi Tosaki, The Specter in Presence: Polixeni Papapetrou’s "Haunted Country" insert in Games of Consequence, 2008
• Suzanne Davies and Peter Barnes, Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2007
• Emma Bugden, Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Mythology, Fairytales and the Occult, Te Tuhi Gallery, Manukau City, New Zealand, 2007
• Robert Nelson, ‘Haunted Country: The Secret History of the Australian Bush’, Haunted Country, 2006
• Alasdair Foster, Changeling: Childhood and the Uncanny, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2005
• Alasdair Foster, Beyond Real, Dressing Up, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2005
• Kyla McFarlane, The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2004
• Vivienne Webb, ‘Mystical Places’, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2004
• Ross Moore, ‘Olympia, Faciality and the Punctal Play of Darkness’, Phantomwise, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, 2004,
• Bronwyn Rennex, Makebelieve: Photographic Fictions, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2004
• Anonda Bell, Fair Game, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003
• Alasdair Foster, Photographica Australis, Asia Tour, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Asialink, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003
• Zara Stanhope, ‘Serious play’, Saturday’s Child, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, 2003
• Rex Butler, Phantomwise, Stills Gallery, Sydney 2003
• Stephanie Lindquist, When I was young: Artists’ Impressions of Childhood, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland, 2002
• Play, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2002
• Rex Butler, Olympia Masked, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 2002
• Adrian Martin, ‘Legend’ Searching for Marilyn, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2002
• Nikos Papastergiadis, ‘Passing’, Authority, 2001
• Robert Nelson, ‘Pose-Impose’, Authority, 2001
• Robert Nelson, Authority, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2000
• Anne Marsh, ‘Light writing desire and other fantasies’ Telling tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 2000
• Nikos Papastergiadis, Editor, What John Berger Saw, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, 1999
• Striking, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 1999
• Jennifer Phipps, Elvis Immortal, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 1997
• Robert Nelson, ‘The Australian Agonies of Hellas’, Neophytes Retrospective, 1997
• Robert Nelson, ‘Pillars of Society’, Fallible Archetypes, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1997
• Anne Marsh, ‘Faking it: Notes on Interpretation’, Curated Bodies, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 1996
• Robert Nelson, ‘Gender Hacking’, Curated Bodies, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 1996
• Kevin Murray, ‘Three Child Proofs’, The First Age, 1995
• Susan Fereday, Immortality, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 1993

Articles

• Yena Ku, ‘Reinstatement of Lost Childhood’, PHOTONET, Seoul, Vol. 124, September 2009, pp. 108-113
• Martha Langford, “Down the rabbit hole-redux”, Exit #33 ‘Once Upon a Time’, Madrid, February-April 2009, pp. 24-36, pp. 43 & 47
• Dimitris Politakis, ‘The children who got lost in fairytales’, Tahidromos Magazine #463, Ta Nea, Athens, 10 January 2009, pp. 42-47
• Cristina Franzoni, ZOOM International, Milan, Italy, September/October 2008, p. 73
• Emma Pearce, Manhattan Magazine, New York, September/October 2008, pp. 82-84
• Emma Pearce, New York Magazine, 'Vulture', 2 September 2008
• Robert Nelson, 'Haunted Country' Heat, Issue # 16, Sydney, Australia, pp. 97-112
• Corrie Perkin, 'Consequence of images', The Australian, August 22, 2008, p. 10
• Corrie Perkin, 'Offence is in the eye of the beholder', The Australian, 8 July 2008, p. 14
• Corrie Perkin, 'The rise of the art police', The Weekend Australian, 12-13 July 2008, Inquirer, p. 26
• Asterope Lazaridou, 'Australia's Alice', TO BHMA, Athens, 20 July 2008, B2, p.7
• Katrina Strickland, The Australian Financial Review, 8 July 2008, p.10
• Gerard Vaughan, 'Protecting art for art's sake', Herald Sun, 8 July 2008, p.19
• Martin Jolly and Denise Ferris, 'Collateral Damage', Art Monthly, July 2008, pp. 5-7
• Cristina Franzoni, ‘Polixeni Papapetrou’, ZOOM, Milan, March/April 2008, p. 26-31
• Robert Nelson ‘Haunted Country’ Heat, Issue # 16, Sydney, 2008
• Alasdair Foster, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 82, Summer 2008 pp. 20-25
• Wendy Walker, Contemporary, 2007 Annual (August), London, pp. 78-79
• Fotis Kapetopoulos ‘Polixeni's dreamscapes lead to international recognition’, Neos Kosmos, English edition, 17 December 2007, p. 17
• Adam Gifford, ‘Vanishing into the landscape’, New Zealand Herald, 23 August 2007. p. B5
• Siobhan Duck, ‘Loss of Innocents’, Herald-Sun, 14 February 2007, p.61
• ‘Elvis Immortal’, Esquire (Russian edition), February 2007, pp. 134-45
• Philippa Hawker, ‘Little and lost to the land’, The Age, A2, 10 February, 2007, p. 19
• Anonda Bell, 'Haunted Country', Aperture New York, #184, Fall 2006, pp. 58-63
• Terry Ingram, 'Big Apple shines bright for expats' The Australian Financial Review, 2 November 2006, p.26
• French Photo, 'Les Terribles histories de Polixeni Papapetrou', September 2006, p. 13
• New Yorker 18 September 2006, p. 12
• Silvia Sorelli, 'Anglela Grossman's and Polixeni Papapetrou's Adventures in Wonderland', The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 113-119
• Karen Vanmeenen, ‘A hunger for images’, Afterimage, Volume 33, Issue 4, 2006
• Sunanda Creagh 'Haunted Country', Sydney Morning Herald, Arts & Entertainment, July 8-9 2006, p. 16
• Emma Gravagnuolo, 'La Covata Malefica', Arte #384, Milan, August 2005, pp. 65-70
• Georgina Jerrums, 'Principal artists' Sunday Life Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald / The Age, 12 December 2004, p.28
• Adrian Martin, 'Strike a Pose', Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April - June 2004, pp102-106
• Louise Nunn, 'Alice's wonder years', Adelaide Advertiser, 19 April 2004, p. 84
• Adrian Martin, 'Australia's 50 most collectable artists, Australian Art Collector, p.95, Issue 27, Jan-March 2004
• Dominque Angeloro 'Malice in Wonderland' Sydney Morning Herald, 10-16 October 2003, Metro, p. 26
• Katrina Strickland, 'Eye of the beholder', The Australian, Weekend Review, 16-17 August 2003, pp16-17
• Rebecca Lancashire, 'Exploring Wonderland', The Age, 10 May 2003, Review, p.7
• Andrew Frost, 'Phantomwise', Australian Art Collector, Issue 24, April-June 2003, pp103-4
• 'Elvis Immortal' River City, University of Memphis, Memphis, Vol. 22 #2 Summer 2002
• Margaret Moore, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, No. 65, 2002 p. 57
• John McPhee, 'ARCO' 2002, Art Monthly, March 2002, pp8-11
• Gael Newton, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, No. 64, 2001 pp22-23
• K.P.Hall, 'Teenage riot: representations of adolescence in contemporary art', Artlink, Vol 21 no. 2 June 2001, pp. 42-47
• Anne Marsh, Telling tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Eyeline, No. 46, Spring 2001
• Anne Marsh, Antithesis (Sex 2000), pp. 32-40
• ‘Elvis’ Heat, Sydney, first series, Vol. 7, 1998, pp. 35-47
• Rebecca Lancashire, 'Loyal to their Royal', The Age, 27 April, 1998, p.16
• Robert Rooney, 'Down at the end of lonely street' The Australian, 16 January 1998, p. 19
• Zelda Cawthorne, 'Elvis Lives-on paper', Herald-Sun, 20 December 1997, p.115
• Artlink, Autumn 1996, Vol.16 No., p.35
• Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 38, 1993, pp. 24-29
• Isobel Crombie, Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990

Reviews

• Jerry Saltz, ‘The Year in Art: Best Photography Shows that Slipped under the Radar - Rachel Sussman and Polixeni Papapetrou’, New York Magazine, New York, 15 December 2008, pp.52 & 54
• Robert McFarlane, ‘Games of Consequence’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September, 2008, p. 10
• Ric Spencer, ‘Eerie portraits of childhood’, The West Australian, 16 April 2008, p.7
• Penny Webb, ‘’Ways of holding a mirror to the past’, The Age, 29 April 2008, p. 13
• Darren Tofts, ‘Living Elvis’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 82, Summer 2008, pp. 65-66
• Adam Gifford, ‘Vanishing into the landscape’, New Zealand Herald, 23 August 2007, p. B5
• Adam Gifford , ‘Mythology and fairytales reign’, New Zealand Herald, 21 March 2007, p.B4
• Siobhan Duck, ‘Loss of Innocents’, Herald-Sun, 14 February 2007, p.61
• Robert L. Pincus, ‘Narrative is making a comeback’, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 February 2007
• Robert McFarlane, ‘Landscape in a new light’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 July 2006, p15
• Melissa Miles, ‘The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 56, Summer 2004/05, pp. 50-51
• Kerstin Westphale, ‘The Line between Us’, Kunststoff, Issue 1/05, Germany
• Ric Spencer, The West Australian, 27 August 2005, (Weekend Extra), pp.12-13
• Ron Banks, ‘Delicate Subject’, The West Australian, 23 August 2005, Arts, p.2
• Tessa Dwyer, ‘The Line Between Us’ The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 73, 2004, pp. 70-71
• Anne Marsh, ‘The Plot Thickens- Narratives in Australian Art’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 73, 2004, p. 73
• Peter Hill, ‘Sticks and bones’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2004, p. 20
• Katrina Strickland, ‘Raw images via a maternal lens’, The Australian, 30 September 2004, p. 14
• Chris Boyd, ‘Mapping mother-daughter terrain’, Australian Financial Review, 18 September 2004, p. 32
• Penny Webb, ‘Every picture tells a tale’, The Age, 13 August 2004, A3 p.8
• Penny Webb, ‘Phantomwise’, The Age, 16 June 2004, A3 p.8
• Robert McFarlane, ‘Moments of fantasy and grace’, Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, 1 June 2004, p17
• Andrew Sellon,’ ‘Picturing Dreams’, Knight Letter, The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, California, USA, Winter 2003, Vol II, Issue 2, No. 72, pp. 43-46
• Anne Marsh, ‘Home of the Brave’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, # 70, 2003, pp. 71 &73
• Penny Webb, ‘Posed for adventure, The Age, 29 May, 2003, A3 p.12
• Marielle Juchau, ‘Photography’s phantasmagorias’, Real Time, June–July 03 No. 55, p. 14
• Peter Hill, ‘The child within’, Sydney Morning Herald, May 9-15, 2003, Metro, p. 26
• Peter Timms, ‘Life Rehearsal’, The Australian, 1-2 March 2003, Weekend Review, p. R21
• Philippa Hawker, ‘Images of an ambiguous world’, The Age, 4 September 2002, The Culture, p. 6
• Philippa Hawker, ‘Finding signs of Marilyn in life and art’, The Age, 3 May 2002, The Culture, p. 4
• Felicity Allen, Herald Sun, 12 February 2002, p.53
• Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 19-20 May 2001, pp. 12-13
• Philippa Hawker, ‘Baby, look at you now’, The Age, 20 November 2000, Today, p. 6
• Felicity Allen, review, 'Authority', Herald Sun, 9 September 2000, p.111
• Felicity Allen, 'Childhood Focus'; Herald Sun, 7 August 2000, p. 97
• Suzanne Spunner, review of Olympia’s Clothes, Art Monthly, April 1999, p. 17
• Peter Timms, ‘Something New’, The Age, 13 May 1998, p.17
• Charles Green, Art Forum, New York, March 1997, XXXV, Vol. 7, p.103.
• Robert Nelson, ‘Behind the Chauvinism of Adulthood’, The Age, 2 August 1995, p. 19
• Anne Marsh, ‘Violence of Child’s Play’, Herald-Sun, 26 July 1995, p. 56
• Susan Fereday, ‘Elvis Lives’, Agenda Contemporary Arts Magazine, #20/21, 1991, p. 41

COLLECTIONS

• Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
• Art Centre, Melbourne
• Artbank, Sydney
• Austcorp Group, Sydney
• Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
• Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
• Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Melbourne
• Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, Australia
• Corrigan Collection, Sydney
• Edith Cowan University, Perth
• Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
• Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
• Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
• Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
• LaTrobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
• Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
• Murdoch University, Perth
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• National Library of Australia, Canberra
• Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
• Wesfarmers Art Collection, Perth
• Private collections in Australia, England, France and USA

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