Photo-based artist Simone Darcy works with performance strategies within the still image. Along with abstraction and experimentation processes within the darkroom to give visual form to the intangible and invisible elements of our experience and the flow of time.
Simone has shown her work in Australia and Internationally, this has included Point North, exhibited at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography in Iceland; Verge Gallery Sydney; Arts System Wickham and selected as part of the Gaffa Experimental Photo Festival Award Sydney; Other notable exhibitions include Light Objects – Photography in the Expanded Field at Perth Centre of Photography; Eternity at Damien Minton Gallery; The Bus Stop Project at Maitland Regional Art Gallery and Absence at Span 1,2 & 3 Melbourne.
Simone has been selected in the The National Photographic Portrait Prize, The Portrait Gallery Canberra; Head On Portrait Prize, Australian Centre of Photography; The New York Photo Prize; The Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize; MAMA National Photography Prize, Melbourne Photobook Image Award and has previously won the Ilford CCP Salon best portrait award at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.