Emilio Cresciani

I'm an emerging photographer and live and work in Sydney, Australia.

I won the 2018 Dis-Moi Dix Mots Competition, Alliance Française Sydney; and was a finalist in the 2018 Mandorla Art Prize and the 2017 Bowness Photography Prize.

I was a finalist in the Chippendale New World Art Prize and the Agendo Art Prize in 2015, the 2010 National Youth Self Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in Australia and my work was featured in the People Gallery, National Geographic Magazine Photo Contest in 2010. I received a 2017 PhotoAccess Canberra Artist Support Package;

My artwork explores redundancy and urban change. My interest is in objects, structures, buildings and the urban landscape, and in particular the increasing number of ‘non-places’ that fill our environment. Waste centres, derelict service stations, road works, car parks and abandoned factories. Beauty is found in these places of repulsion, neglect or obsolescence. Inverted images of rubbish emphasise the negative side of consumerism, like an x-ray points out disease. Portraits of people with their weekly waste explored Italo Calvino’s suggestion that we are defined by what we dump. Cracked car windows and night road works are a metaphor for the central plac...

I graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2012.

Solo Exhibitions
2018 Through a glass darkly, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Through a glass darkly, gaffa, Sydney
FACE2FACE, Interlude Gallery, Sydney and Photoaccess Gallery, Canberra
Remains of the Day Museo Italiano, Melbourne; The Photography Room, Canberra
2015 Remains of the Day Carlton Project Space, Sydney
2014 Flight Patterns Mars Gallery, Toowoomba
2014 Cars Brides Pubs Parramatta Road Streetscape, Leichhardt Library
2014 Remains of the Day The Incinerator, Willoughby
2013 Remains of the Day PhotoAccess, Canberra; Leichhardt Library, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Dis-Moi Dix Mots Photography Competition Winners, Alliance Française Sydney
2018 Mandorla Art Prize Finalists
2017 Bowness Photography Prize Finalists, Monash Art Gallery, Melbourne
Fragments Shored Against the Ruins, Bluethumb Photography, Melbourne
2017 Maybe this is going Nowhere gaffa, Sydney
2016 Art Now Revisited, Kensington Contemporary, Sydney
2015 Agendo Art Prize Finalists Melbourne
2015 Chippendale New World Art Prize Finalists Sydney
2014 Mem...