Artitst Statement

From the series ‘8 Months’, 2021 – ongoing

‘8 Months’ is an ongoing project consisting of images taken throughout the pandemic years in Sweden. The series takes its departure from Littlewood’s personal experience of the uncertainty of being able to stay in Sweden, but at the same time not being able to return to Australia. The photographs of friends and places capture what has become a long goodbye.

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. Her works are presented in exhibitions as both still photography and moving image, installation and within a variety of published formats such as photo books and artist’s books under the imprint of The Lytlewode Press (Stoke-on-Trent, Melbourne & Gothenburg).

Littlewood is based between Gothenburg and Melbourne. In 2021 she was awarded a one year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden/the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and is a finalist in the 2022 National Photography Prize in Australia at Murray Art Museum Albury.

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