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This week we are joined by Bronwyn Kidd!

Bronwyn is an Australian photographer known for fashion and portraiture. She built her career through hands-on industry experience before moving to London in 1992, aged 23. There, her work quickly gained attention, leading to an exclusive commission with Sir Hardy Amies for his Savile Row collections.

Drawing on the legacy of haute couture photography, her images blend nostalgia, wit and cinematic atmosphere, and are held in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London.

@bronwynkidd

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Portraiture is a collaboration - capturing a moment in time. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. A portrait can feel right in one moment and uncertain in another. When I am making it, I don’t realise its future importance.

There is pressure when making a portrait - I want it to be right. But right for when? Right for now, or for another time? Does it honour the past? Does it show the person as they should be shown? These questions constantly circle my mind while I am preparing, while I am photographing the portrait, editing, printing, and finally presenting it to the sitter.

With this portrait; Maudie Palmer AO No.2, The Good Room At Glendale, I took a gamble. The image required considerable technical and emotional thought. This room had never been photographed before -it was Maudies favourite. We placed a clay pot made by Maudie on the mantle, and the fifty-year-old native maidenhair that usually lived by the side entrance joined other treasured, memory-laden objects.

After editing and presenting Maudie with large contact sheets, I travelled to Sydney to print with Sandy. From three chosen frames, we decided to cut the film and reassemble it as a triptych panorama. It was risky, in truth, Sandy did the cutting, not me. The final print is large - and it needed to be. Maudie needed to have a presence in The Good Room, Glendale - an extraordinary place, an historic home filled with art and stories.

It was Andy Dinan who kindly introduced me to Maudie - with the idea to photograph her. Maudie was the second portrait of my series, Women in Art. We arranged to meet in between lockdown restrictions, we talked openly for hours - about art, life, history, about woman. It was a gift to be in her presence and to hear so generously, her stories.

I didn’t bring my camera that day, a process I deeply value: spending time talking, before making the photograph.

Maudie offered me a Glendale sapling River gum, in our garden it stands as a living memory of my time with Maudie - and these portraits, a still moment, preserved.

Journey well, wonderful Maudie.

Maudie Palmer AO, No.2 2022
The Good Room At Glendale

‘Through Her Breath’ — Bronwyn Kidd @bronwynkidd

Bronwyn Kidd’s black-and-white photograph depicts two dancing bodies folded together, suspended between shadow and light. Working with layered analogue and digital processes, Bronwyn traces a cinema of memory, womanhood and community through gesture and atmosphere.

Here, body, breath and earth converge into a quiet archive of presence; an image that feels both timeless and tender, radiating a deep, feminine resolve.

EMBER
Visit Lander—Se this weekend to catch the final days of EMBER and experience this work in person.
Open weekends 11–4pm | 585 Dunns Creek Rd, Red Hill
Explore the exhibition online: landerse.au/ember

#landerse #bronwynkidd #ember #fineartphotography #womensstories #artistrunspace #morningtonpeninsula #groupexhibition #blackandwhitephotography

‘Through Her Breath’ — Bronwyn Kidd @bronwynkidd

Bronwyn Kidd’s black-and-white photograph depicts two dancing bodies folded together, suspended between shadow and light. Working with layered analogue and digital processes, Bronwyn traces a cinema of memory, womanhood and community through gesture and atmosphere.

Here, body, breath and earth converge into a quiet archive of presence; an image that feels both timeless and tender, radiating a deep, feminine resolve.

EMBER
Visit Lander—Se this weekend to catch the final days of EMBER and experience this work in person.
Open weekends 11–4pm | 585 Dunns Creek Rd, Red Hill
Explore the exhibition online: landerse.au/ember

#landerse #bronwynkidd #ember #fineartphotography #womensstories #artistrunspace #morningtonpeninsula #groupexhibition #blackandwhitephotography

Acclaimed Australian photographer Bronwyn Kidd spoke exclusively at T3 Collingwood on Wednesday, 15 October at 12:30 PM. Known for her evocative portraiture and fine art photography, Kidd will share insights into her creative process, artistic influences, and the stories behind her celebrated body of work.

Want to hear more?
Find the chat on our website @ link in bio

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photography #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists @australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @ballaratfoto @bronwynkidd

Acclaimed Australian photographer Bronwyn Kidd spoke exclusively at T3 Collingwood on Wednesday, 15 October at 12:30 PM. Known for her evocative portraiture and fine art photography, Kidd will share insights into her creative process, artistic influences, and the stories behind her celebrated body of work.

Want to hear more?
Find the chat on our website @ link in bio

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photography #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists @australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @ballaratfoto @bronwynkidd

Acclaimed Australian photographer Bronwyn Kidd spoke exclusively at T3 Collingwood on Wednesday, 15 October at 12:30 PM. Known for her evocative portraiture and fine art photography, Kidd will share insights into her creative process, artistic influences, and the stories behind her celebrated body of work.

Want to hear more?
Find the chat on our website @ link in bio

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photography #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists @australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @ballaratfoto @bronwynkidd

Acclaimed Australian photographer Bronwyn Kidd spoke exclusively at T3 Collingwood on Wednesday, 15 October at 12:30 PM. Known for her evocative portraiture and fine art photography, Kidd will share insights into her creative process, artistic influences, and the stories behind her celebrated body of work.

Want to hear more?
Find the chat on our website @ link in bio

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photography #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists @australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @ballaratfoto @bronwynkidd

Join acclaimed Australian photographer Bronwyn Kidd at an exclusive Artist Talk at T3 Collingwood on Wednesday, 15 October at 1:00 PM.

This special event offers audiences a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of Australia’s leading photographic artists. Kidd has perfected portraiture by understanding the subject within the frame thereby providing depth, clarity and connection to the viewer.

The talk will include a discussion of:
Kidd’s background and career reflections and highlights, Practice and how identity has informed her projects, The details - how subjects are sourced, framed, considered, and why and what materials are used and conclude with an open Q&A session.

Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: T3 Collingwood, Melbourne. Suite 6.01, Level 6
BYO Lunch with non-alcoholic drinks provided.

Book your free ticket in bio or with this link:
https://events.humanitix.com/artist-talk-bronwyn-kidd/tickets

#artist #arttalk #photographer #satelliteprojects #satelliteprojectsmelbourne #melbourneartist #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartist
@satelliteprojectsmelbourne @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @australianwomenartists @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices
T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood

Satellite Projects and T3 are proud to present “IDENTITY: Quiet Acts, Strong Voices”, an exhibition showcasing three artists whose image-making is a way to explore and express the layered connections between identity, expression, and freedom which are constantly shifting. The question of what it means to be an artist—and whose stories get to be told—remains vital, with each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists: Ramak Bamzar, Bronwyn Kidd, & Nani Puspasari

Image 1-2: Ice Queens: Claire Collins and Chelsea Scanlon No 2 by Bronwyn Kidd In Collaboration with Virginia Dowzer (detail)
Image 3: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.3 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 4: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.8 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 5: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.11 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 6: Sea Lion Sisters Untitled No.12 by Bronwyn Kidd (detail)
Image 7-8: In situ – T3 Foyer, 36 Wellington St. Collingwood
Image 9: Bronwyn Kidd

#satelliteprojectsmelbourne #loveitbuyitsatelliteprojects #melbourneartist #fineart #photographer #wonderfulwomenartists #supportlivingartists
@australianwomenartists @australian.women.artists @womensartregister @satelliteprojectsmelbourne @yarracityarts @bronwynkidd

Saltlines for Sealion Women - A site specific performance on St Clair Beach in Ōtepoti, Dunedin.

Local female performers respond to climate breakdown and rising tides of global violence drawing courage and inspiration from the sealion community.

Creative Team:
Carol Brown(Choreographer)
Fiona Graham (Dramaturg)
Russell Scoones(Composer)
Anna Noonan/Dance Ōtepoti (Producer)
Bronwyn Kidd (Photographer)
Jac Wilson, Cassidy Scoones (Rehearsal Assistance)
Miriam Noonan (Stage Manager)
Giuliana Bolletta (Make Up assistant)
Leah Haskell, Nikitia Vercoe Still, Tessa Conijn, Regan Stacey-Vince (Hair assistants) supported by Diane Griffin @otagopolytechnic

Performers: Carol Brown, Emily Campbell, Hahna Briggs, Suzy Fox, Ali East, Yanling Sun, Nicole Rogers, Anna Noonan, Eleanor Riley, Caitlin Lester, Teresa Nel, Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Julie Cuthill, Jenny Munro, Marika Thomson, Laura Watkins Eva Te Hui, Melinda Geary, Miriam Marler, Annie Sutherland.
Narrators: Melinda Geary, Emily Campbell, Terry MacTavish, Moyra Daisy Brown and Nahoa Fox.

Made possible through the support of the Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellowship 2025 @universityofotago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Victorian College of Arts University of Melbourne and Moyra Daisy Brown.

Saltlines for Sealion Women | Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature 10-22 April 2025

Congratulations to Bronwyn Kidd, the winner of the 2025 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, for her portrait of renowned photographer Polly Borland.

“This portrait is homage and exchange, intimate and engaged. Polly costumed as a silhouette beneath flying cape conjures the super-heroic, the oracle, trickster—all herself.
“In the quiet studio, with light honed to the exact timbre of our friendship, we built this portrait in awareness of beloved past technologies; originally shot on negative, I scanned the film, retouched, leaving tape marks intact as evidence of process, then made negatives and printed them in the darkroom.” - Bronwyn Kidd, 2025 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize winner.

📷 @astridmulder.photography

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@bronwynkidd

I’m thrilled to be part of the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize with my new portrait of Polly Borland @polly_borland - Polly Borland No.1 2025, 20 finalists have been announced in The Guardian, it is fantastic to be amongst such wonderful photographers and photographs.

Polly and I have shared a long-standing friendship born out of photography, it’s a great joy to be able to honour that connection through this work.

..We met in London in 1992 where I began my career, assisting Polly. That grew into decades-long friendship and still I am captivated by how she conjures the uncanny with such effect, how she distorts and reveals, in the same moment, the psychological layers. As we two women navigated image-making, I watched Polly claim her space through invention and risk..This, my new portrait is homage and exchange, intimate and engaged. Polly costumed as a silhouette beneath flying cape conjures the super-heroic, the oracle, trickster—all herself.

The exhibited print will celebrate Polly on the last of Kodak metallic, thank you @sandyprints1 for all that you bring that shines, and thank you to @visualthingstudio for your continuing dedication to beauty.

Thank you Polly 🪽✨🤍

Martin Kantor Portrait Prize 2025 @ballaratfoto

I've really been enjoying the Bella Freud podcast ‘Fashion Neurosis’.

Each week Bella 'invites a special guest to lie on the couch and explore the connection between fashion and identity', please tune in on Apple and Spotify.

This portraitof Bella was shot in her Islington studio in 1997. This and another from the series are housed in the archives of National Portrait Gallery, London, since 1998.Thank you @terencepepper @nationalportraitgallery for collecting this portrait, one of my most favourite portraits of fashion, history and photography united.

Becoming Sealion

Saltlines for Sealion Women - A site specific performance on St Clair Beach in Ōtepoti, Dunedin.

Local female performers respond to climate breakdown and rising tides of global violence drawing courage and inspiration from the sealion community.

Creative Team:
Carol Brown(Choreographer)
Fiona Graham (Dramaturg)
Russell Scoones(Composer)
Anna Noonan/Dance Ōtepoti (Producer)
Bronwyn Kidd (Photographer)
Jac Wilson, Cassidy Scoones (Rehearsal Assistance)
Miriam Noonan (Stage Manager)
Giuliana Bolletta (Make Up assistant)
Leah Haskell, Nikitia Vercoe Still, Tessa Conijn, Regan Stacey-Vince (Hair assistants) supported by Diane Griffin @otagopolytechnic

Performers: Carol Brown, Emily Campbell, Hahna Briggs, Suzy Fox, Ali East, Yanling Sun, Nicole Rogers, Anna Noonan, Eleanor Riley, Caitlin Lester, Teresa Nel, Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Julie Cuthill, Jenny Munro, Marika Thomson, Laura Watkins Eva Te Hui, Melinda Geary, Miriam Marler, Annie Sutherland.
Narrators: Melinda Geary, Emily Campbell, Terry MacTavish, Moyra Daisy Brown and Nahoa Fox.

Dance Artists pictured: Carol Brown and Alison East

Made possible through the support of the Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellowship 2025 @universityofotago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Victorian College of Arts University of Melbourne and Moyra Daisy Brown.

Saltlines for Sealion Women | Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature 10-22 April 2025

Changing the map

Saltlines for Sealion Women - A site specific performance on St Clair Beach in Ōtepoti, Dunedin.

Local female performers respond to climate breakdown and rising tides of global violence drawing courage and inspiration from the sealion community.

Creative Team:
Carol Brown(Choreographer)
Fiona Graham (Dramaturg)
Russell Scoones(Composer)
Anna Noonan/Dance Ōtepoti (Producer)
Bronwyn Kidd (Photographer)
Jac Wilson, Cassidy Scoones (Rehearsal Assistance)
Miriam Noonan (Stage Manager)
Giuliana Bolletta (Make Up assistant)
Leah Haskell, Nikitia Vercoe Still, Tessa Conijn, Regan Stacey-Vince (Hair assistants) supported by Diane Griffin @otagopolytechnic

Performers: Carol Brown, Emily Campbell, Hahna Briggs, Suzy Fox, Ali East, Yanling Sun, Nicole Rogers, Anna Noonan, Eleanor Riley, Caitlin Lester, Teresa Nel, Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Julie Cuthill, Jenny Munro, Marika Thomson, Laura Watkins Eva Te Hui, Melinda Geary, Miriam Marler, Annie Sutherland.
Narrators: Melinda Geary, Emily Campbell, Terry MacTavish, Moyra Daisy Brown and Nahoa Fox.

Dance Artists pictured: Carol Brown and Alison East

Made possible through the support of the Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellowship 2025 @universityofotago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Victorian College of Arts University of Melbourne and Moyra Daisy Brown.

Saltlines for Sealion Women | Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature 10-22 April 2025