Narelle Autio

Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she often collaborates.

Career

Autio was born and raised in Adelaide, completing her Visual Arts degree at the University of South Australia. She began her career as a photojournalist at the Adelaide Advertiser before leaving Australia in 1994. Autio travelled extensively throughout the USA and Europe. In England she worked for numerous UK national newspapers as well as Australia’s News Limited London bureau. Returning home in 1998 she worked as a staff photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald until 2003, winning Walkley Awards in 2000^[1] and 2002.^[2]

Autio has won national and international awards, including the Oskar Barnack Award^[3][4] for her series Coastal Dwellers.

Autio began exhibiting in 2000, collaborating with her husband Trent Parke on The Seventh Wave. This was followed in 2002 by the series Not of this Earth. Her solo show in 2004, Watercolours, continued her exploration of Australians at leisure. She has followed this in 2009 with the show The Summer of Us, a document of what is left behind on the beach, naturally and by humankind.

In 2001^[5] and 2006,^[6] Autio was selected in the Australian Art Collector Magazine’s "Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists".

Her work has been exhibited throughout the world and is held in numerous institutions as well as many private and corporate collections.

Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective.^[7] She is a founding member of Oculi, an independent, collective photographic agency. Her work is distributed by Agence Vu.^[8] She is based in Adelaide, South Australia.

Publications with contributions by Autio

• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9563322-1-9.
• The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0-500-29130-6. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Autio.

Awards

• 2001 – First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Trent Parke (for "Australian Roadkill" series).^[9]
• 2002 – First prize, Arts and Entertainment category, World Press Photo Award 2001.^[10]

Exhibitions

• 2000: The Seventh Wave (with Trent Parke). Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[11]
• 2002: Not of this Earth.
• 2002: Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please) (with Trent Parke). Stills Gallery, Sydney^[12]
• 2002–2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Trent Parke). Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 2002;^[11] FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, 2004;^[11] Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2004.^[11]
• 2010: The Summer of Us. Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.^[13]
• 2012: Water hole. Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.^[14]
• 2013: To the sea (with Trent Parke). Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.^[15]

References

1. ↑ "Autio, Narelle (1969 - )". womstralia.info. Retrieved 27 December 2011. 
2. ↑ "Herald cleans up in Walkleys, taking gold". smh.com.au. 29 November 2002. Retrieved 27 December 2011. 
3. ↑ "Narelle Autio" (PDF), Michael Reid. Accessed 18 May 2014.
4. ↑ "Beach pictures: It's just another prize-winning day out there", Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 2002. Accessed 24 May 2014.
5. ↑ "Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists". artcollector.net.au. Retrieved 27 December 2011. 
6. ↑ "50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists". artcollector.net.au. Retrieved 27 December 2011. 
7. ↑ "Narelle Autio". In-Public. Retrieved 12 February 2015. 
8. ↑ "Photographers". Agence Vu. Retrieved 23 February 2015. 
9. ↑ "2000, Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, 1st prize, Nature stories". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015. 
10. ↑ "2001, Narelle Autio, 1st prize, Arts and Entertainment". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015. 
11. 1 2 3 4 "Narelle Autio". Stills Gallery. Archived from the original on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 27 December 2011. 
12. ↑ Exhibition notices, Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August
13. ↑ Hugo Michell Gallery https://www.hugomichellgallery.com/exhibition/2010-exhibitions/narelle-autio-the-summer-of-us/.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
14. ↑ Hugo Michell Gallery https://www.hugomichellgallery.com/exhibition/2012-exhibitions/narelle-autio-ray-harris/. Retrieved 9 May 2015.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
15. ↑ Hugo Michell Gallery https://www.hugomichellgallery.com/exhibition/2013-exhibitions/narelle-autio-trent-parke-to-the-sea/. Retrieved 9 May 2015.  Missing or empty |title= (help)