Trained at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW and at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Simone Douglas has been exhibiting since the late 1980s.
Her photographs have been exhibited at and are held in the collection of the V&A Museum, London; the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and the National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. In addition they are in the collection of the Tate Modern, London, and have also been exhibited at the Photographers Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, among others. She was project director and curator for Picture Sydney: landmarks of a new generation at the Australian Museum; has been a guest scholar at Köln International School of Design; initiated the international art and design collective Conjecture and served on the Board of Directors at First Draft Gallery, Sydney.
Douglas has been on faculty for institutions internationally
including: Parsons School of Design New York, The New School
University; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney;
the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW and the National
Art School, Sydney.
Douglas’s work is increasingly concerned with the destabilising of form such that its resultant appearance is one of uncertainty.
Wendy Cavenett, for black+white magazine (1998) noted that “by slurring colour and form, Douglas has evolved an approach that eliminates the certainty of conventional photographic depth and clarity: the subject seems familiar, yet ultimately remains unknown.”
Much of Douglas’s work is influenced by the relationship with landscape.
The new works featuring in Sky of the Skies further explore the above themes and have been influenced by her Blind series (2002–2003), which will also feature in this exhibition.
