photo by Damien Laing
I’m an artist using photography, video, sound and material processes. I work with visual languages to explore speculative outcomes of failing human-centeredness and eurocentrism.
I am from Larrakia Country in the Northern Territory, and work between here and Naarm (VIC).
I acknowledge the First Nations sovereign custodians of the lands and waters I live and work on and honour their elders, culture and connection to country. This includes the Larrakia people (NT) and the Eastern Kulin nations (VIC). First Nations sovereignty was never ceded.
lissfenwick@gmail.com | 0413428938
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 sorry Dad, Conners Conners gallery, VIC
COLONY, Ballarat Art Gallery, Art Screen program, VIC
FEED, Ordinance Gallery, VIC
Humpty Doom, Mibu Gallery, Japan
2024 The colony cares for everyone, Jhana Millers gallery, Aotearoa
The colony cares for everyone, Former Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, VIC
2023 Mastotermes Darwiniensis/mɑːstɒtɜːmz ˈdɑːwɪŋ.ɪen.sɪs, MARS Gallery, VIC
Humpty Doom, Hillvale Gallery, VIC
2022 BACK OUT, Lennox St Gallery, VIC
2021 Natural History of Destruction, Stockroom Gallery, VIC
2017 Wrought, Testing Grounds, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Publishing as Art Practice and Ecological Practice, Celadon Center, Cyprus
On Country: Photography From Australia, Immigration Museum, VIC
Jakarta International Photo Festival, curated by Yoppy Pieter, Indonesia
Fly Specks, curated by Vaari Claffey, Kunstverein Aughrim, Ireland
Nuit de la Photo, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
The Velvet Ant, The Flower and The Bird, curated by Chus Martinez, Potter Museum of Art, VIC
2025 Cecchele showroom, curated by Jack Wansbrough and Melissa McGrath, WA
Protest is a Creative Act, curated by Kelly Gellatley, Museum of Australian Photography, VIC
On Country: Photography From Australia, Rencontres d’Arles, France
From the Ground Up, curated by Joanna Barrkman, Midpul Gallery, NT
2024 Paris Aperture photobook award, Tenderbooks, London, UK
Contemporary photobooks from Australia, V&A, London, UK
Partial Vision, curated by Ren Gregoric, Kingston Arts, VIC
2023 Paris Photo- Aperture First photobook award, Paris Photo, France
Bad Flowers, curated by Stephanie Martin, Coconut Studios, NT
Das Kapital, curated by Amanda Morgan, Kieran Boland and Brie Trenerry, The Bank, VIC
Walking Through Darkness, curated by Catlin Langford, Centre for Contemporary Photography, VIC
2022 Retribution, curated by Carlo Ansaldo, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, NT
2021 Satan’s Tears, curated by Mikala Dwyer, Mejia Gallery, VIC
Not Fair Art Fair, Windsor warehouse, VIC
2020 Group Hug, Coconut Studios, NT
Twenty: Two decades of Queensland photography, State Library of Queensland, QLD
2019 Animal Nation, curated by Simon Perichich, Stockroom Gallery, VIC
Plants + Humans, curated by Allison Holland, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2018 australische botschaft (embassy), Spreewald Tunnel, Germany
Territories, curated by Shane Hulbert, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
Cattle and Cane, curated by Brigid Hansen, Dirty Dozen gallery, VIC
2017 Der Greif thread count, Unseen Photo Festival, CO-OP Space, Netherlands
Something is Trying to Tell Us Some Things, curated by Kieran Boland, Five Walls Gallery, VIC
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026 Finalist, Louis Roederer Foundation Sustainability prize, Frace
2025 Creative Australia International Market Engagement Grant, $10,000
2023 Finalist, Paris-Photo Aperture first photobook award, Paris Photo, France
2022 Watch This Space, Traveling artist in residence, NT
2021 Fineman New Photography Award, $10,000, Ballarat International Festival of Photography, VIC
Finalist, Bowness Art Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
Finalist, Incinerator Art Prize, Incinerator Gallery, VIC
Finalist, Libraryman Photobook Award, Paris, France
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, VIC
Regional Arts Fund career development grant, $5000
2020 Winner, Contemporary Landscapes in Photography Award, Perth Centre for Photography, WA
2018 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, $15,000
Finalist, Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy, SA
2017 Finalist, Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, QLD
Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
Writing
2026 OVER Journal, Regenerative Consumption, Aidan Kelly Murphy
2025 Beaux Arts Magazine featuring On Country: Photography from Australia
In the Termite Colony by Rex Butler
2023 The Art Show interview by Rosa Ellen (from 37min), Radio National
2023 Giles Fielke’s essay on Humpty Doom, ‘Typical Landscapes, Adequate Figurations’
2022 Damien Laing’s essay ‘Memory and Redemption’
2019 Ash Crawford’s essay on Grim Purpose ‘The Outsider’