RICHARD BILLINGHAM
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People, Places, Animals
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20 December 2007 - 24 February 2008
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"... before Billingham, only photojournalists - all bush jackets and social conscience - had penetrated the drab world of the high-rise and the council estate. Billingham's work is, as it were, anthropology by a member of the tribe ... Billingham's photographs come straight from life." - Robert Chesshyre, The Telegraph
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A major survey of work by acclaimed British artist Richard Billingham, whose real-life photos of his family became a notorious part of the 1997 Saatchi exhibition Sensation. Billingham was a short listed artist for the 2001 Turner Prize. This exhibition includes a selection of previously unexhibited early photographs of father Ray, as well as key works from the series, Ray’s a Laugh, the Black Country series, early video works including Fishtank, commissioned by ArtAngel, and Billingham’s most recent series of videos and photographs of animals in captivity, ZOO
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Click on the press links below for the latest reviews and radio interview
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Richard Billingham, Catherine Deveny & Suzanne Donisthorpe - ABC Radio National
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Robert Nelson - The Age
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Catherine Deveny - The Age
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Corrie Perkin - The Australian
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