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Narelle
Autio

biography

Narelle Autio was born in 1969 and lives in Adelaide. She holds a degree in visual art from the University of South Australia. Now based in Sydney, Narelle is a photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald, after working at the Adelaide Adviser. She was the main photographer of the News Limited London office, and worked as a freelancer in the United States. Even today, his photos are sometimes published in American and Australian magazines.

In her personal photographic research, Narelle Autio likes to study the human body when it is in relation to water, carried by it, deformed, surrounded by a cloud of air bubbles that make it a surreal figure, at the limit of abstraction.

In 2001, Narelle temporarily moved away from her work on the water to do two series, one on the Melbourne School of Dance, and Not of this Earth, which brings together strollers’ views taken from the Sydney Bridge. In 2009, in the continuity of her photographs of beaches and the ocean, Narelle produced The summer of us, a series in which she focused her attention on the waste or natural elements that litter the sand, documenting each of her finds with the same attention to detail.

Her new work, Water Hole 2012, celebrates the supernatural beauty of the dark waters she encountered while travelling in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Mainly exhibited in Australia and the United States, she also presents her works in Europe. In 2000, her work was awarded the Walkley Photojournalism Award and in 2001, she won first prize at the World Press Photo Awards in the Nature and Environment category. In 2002 she received the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her series Coastal Dwellers, as well as the World Press Photo First Prize for her work on the Melbourne Dance School. In 2001, L’Art Collector Magazine selected her as one of the 50 most collected Australian artists.

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