How to Find Your Own Voice in Photography, with Pixy Liao

Photographer and Her Muse (2014) by Pixy Liao

Born in Shanghai, China and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York, Pixy Liao is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation, and performance. She is most known for her staged and often humorous photographs that feature herself and her boyfriend-turned-muse, Moro.

Join Pixy Liao for a two-hour workshop and explore how the artist has developed her project, Experimental Relationship. Selected participants will be given a unique insight into Liao’s process and approach, followed by an opportunity to have their photography portfolio reviewed by the artist.

The Powerhouse is inviting expressions of interest from emerging photographers who are studying photography, visual communication, fine arts or equivalent.

To register your interest in this workshop please complete an EOI. Workshop spaces are strictly limited and open to tertiary students only. Applications close March 31, 2023. If you are successful, you will be notified by April 7, 2023.

Prior to the workshop, all participants are invited to join Liao’s public artist talk and audience Q&A at 10.30am.

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February

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

May

Sydney: Until 16 August 2026. PIX, Australia’s first pictorial news weekly, is brought to life in this exhibition, showcasing its archived images and stories for the very first time.

Melbourne: Until March 2027. Rehearsing the City presents archival photographs from Victoria’s government collections, alongside new work by contemporary street photographers.

Coffs Harbour: 28 May – 29 June 2026. West Of Somewhere East is a photographic series tracing a cinematic journey through the interior of New South Wales, shaped by long drives, fleeting encounters, and the reflective rhythm of return.

June

Sydney: June 6 – 19 July 2026. The World Press Photo Exhibition 2026 is returning to the State Library of New South Wales from 6 June to 19 July, offering Sydney audiences an uncompromising view of of the unending challenges that humans, and our planet face.

Melbourne: 6 June – 20 August 2026. Brook Andrew is an artist whose conceptual practice shifts across photography, performance, moving image, installation, public space and research, often through deep collaboration with artists, communities and friends.

Melbourne: 6 June – 28 June 2-26. We Built a House Out of Water is a deeply personal body of work that draws on memory, family, and culture – while understanding healing as an ongoing process.

Melbourne: 26 June – 2 August. Through analogue photographic processes, Dylan Negri aims to immortalised fragments of life that would otherwise disintegrate.