Juno Gemes

Juno Gemes’ studies in photography include attending a masterclass with Lisette Model “Incontra Personale” at Venice Biennale in 1979. She was also awarded a British Arts Council Grant in 1979 to attend The Oxford Photography Workshop with Aaron Siskind, David Hurn, and Brian Griffin. In 1998, Gemes was awarded a Fellowship from AIATSIS to document her archive In Our Time Photographs and Texts from the Movement 1974 – 1994. In 2016, she attended a workshop with Luther Gerlash at The International Centre for the Arts, Monti Castello de Vibio, Italy, concentrating on processes used in the first fifty years of photography.

Juno Gemes has had 20 solo exhibitions in Sydney, London, Budapest, Paris, and at St. Louis University, USA, where during the Evidence exhibition, she was The Kristin Peterson Speaker on Photography in 2015.

Between 1986 and 2010, Juno Gemes and her partner poet Robert Adamson were Co-Directors of Paper Bark Press. In 1998, The Language of Oysters poems by Robert Adamson, photographs by Juno Gemes, was published by Craftsman House. This acclaimed publication was launched in London at Australia House by Robert Whitaker and in Australia at The State Library of NSW by David Malouf.

Juno Gemes’ works are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Australia, AIATSIS, National Library of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland State Library, State Library of NSW, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of South Australia, Macquarie University Art Collection, Churchill College Cambridge Collection, Lord Grey Gowrie Collection Wales UK, Kluge-Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia USA.