Izabela Pluta

Izabela Pluta is a Polish-born, Sydney-based artist working with photography as a way of interpreting and re-conceptualising the function that images have in the present – how they might depict the world they operate within, not only in relation to the mobility of images, but in response to the movement of people and the experiences they embody. Her works examine the visual, material and conceptual nuances of expanded forms of photography to explore processual phenomena and our engagement with the uncertainty of the ecologies of relation and place.

Pluta has exhibited widely in Australia at Australian Centre for Photography, 55 Sydenham Rd, UTS Gallery and Galerie Pompom, Sydney; Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane; 24 HR Art, Darwin; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Canberra Contemporary Art Space; The Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery; and Westspace, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre and Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, among many others. In 2012, she was commissioned to create Unset Typologies, a public artwork for the City of Melbourne. In 2017, Pluta was a finalist in the Bowness Photography Award at the Monash Gallery of Art, and in 2018 was shortlisted for the MAMA Foundation National Photographic Award. She is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert and is a lecturer at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney.