Maudie Palmer AO
Portraits 2022 / 2023
These portraits explore presence, memory, and the passage of time, considering portraiture not as a fixed likeness but as a trace of lived experience. I first met Maudie Palmer in 2021 at Glendale, her home of more than forty years. Across several meetings and eventually a sitting, I sought to record the continuity between the woman before me and the life she had shaped through art, curatorship, and generosity. In the Good Room, Maudie appears repeatedly within the space she curated over decades, her presence embedded in its objects, light, and rhythms. The work seeks to honour Maudie’s profound contribution to Australian art while reflecting on photography’s ability to hold presence against inevitable absence.
Bronwyn Kidd
With gratitude to Maudie Palmer AO
2022 / 2023
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Maudie Palmer AO No.1 2022
Printed 2023
C-type hand print, Kodak Endura Premier matte paper
65cm x 80cm, edition of 8 + 2 AP
Maudie Palmer AO No.2 2022 (In The Good Room, Glendale)
Printed 2023
C- type hand print, Kodak Endura Premier matte paper
Image size: I49cm x 68cm
Paper size: 170cm x 76cm, edition of 8 + 2 AP
Maudie Palmer AO No.3 2022 (In The Good Room, Glendale)
Printed 2026
Ilford warm tone fibre gloss, hand print
Image 47cm x 47.8cm
Paper size 52.7cm x 53.7cm, edition of 8 + 2 AP
Maudie Palmer AO No.4 2022 (In The Good Room, Glendale)
Printed 2026
Ilford warm tone fibre gloss, hand print
Image 47cm x 47.8cm
Paper size 52.7cm x 53.7cm, edition of 8 + 2 AP
Artworks featured: Patrick Caulfield, James Morrison, Linda Marrinon, John Scurry, Danie Mallor