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By Caitlin E.Littlewood
Artist Bio
Caitlin E. Littlewood is a Melbourne-born visual artist working in artistic research, photography, installation, publications and moving image. She has a foundation education in fine art, having received Honours in Arts (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2013 and a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT University in 2017. More recently she completed a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden (2020), for which she received the Theodor and Hanne Mannheimers Scholarship for her work, ‘Decay Theory’. 
 
 As a practitioner, Littlewood’s imagery involves investigating archives and collections that form part of our collective past. Her academic research explores who has agency over colonial photographic collections with a focus on knowledge production, institutional critique and archive theory.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
In the series Robyn's Hasselblad (2018-2019), the artist began using Robyn Beeche’s camera upon moving to Sweden in autumn 2018. Initially, the Hasselblad felt cumbersome, with one film magazine frequently jamming and resulting in unexpected double and triple exposures. Instead of discarding these “faulty” images, the artist embraced the unpredictability.
 
 Without a written diary, the artist used photography to capture personal explorations of youth, beauty, imperfection, and fleeting relationships with people and places. After a year—the longest time spent away from Australia—the artist returned Robyn’s camera to her family. Robyn Beeche (1945-2015), an influential Australian fashion photographer, was celebrated for her avant-garde work in 1980s London, treating the body itself as a canvas.