Working through Surrealist Score (with apples) is from a larger series of photographs developed during an arid Summer spent undertaking the Cortex Frontal Residency in Arraiolos, Portugal in 2019. The series is a meditation on the artist’s sense of self, as a woman. Working through notions of surrealist visual lineage, self-portraiture and still-life photography, she considered the possibilities of being alone, of defining the self through the image, and of the temporal potentials and problems imbued in a photograph.

Josephine Mead is a visual artist, writer and curator based on the land of the Boon Wurrung language group in so called Melbourne (Australia). She works through photography, sculpture, installation and writing to explore personal notions of support. Her recent work has positioned female family members as support-structures, considered the body as a site of discursive practice, explored notions of deep listening, and examined the temporal and sonic nature of writing and photography. She has held solo exhibitions at c3 contemporary art space, TAB Gallery (Turkey), Bus Projects, Stockroom and the Monash and RMIT faculty galleries. She has shown work in group exhibitions at a wide range of venues, including BLINDSIDE, Stockroom, Craft Victoria, Stacks Projects, Counihan Gallery, Five Walls, St Heliers Street Gallery, Kings Artist Run, Seventh, Blue Oyster Space (New Zealand) and as part of the TOMI Arts Festival (Japan). In 2018 she undertook the Arquetopia Foundation Residency (Puebla, Mexico), the Kings Emerging Writer’s Program, the Macfarlane Fund Residency (Kyneton, Victoria) and was published by Art+Australia and un projects. In 2019 she was awarded a Career Development Grant through the Australia Council for the Arts to undertake the Tasarim Bakkali TAB Residency (Istanbul, Turkey) and the Córtex Frontal Residency (Arraiolos, Portugal). In 2020 she commenced the ZK/U Residency at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin, Germany). She is a current Room to Create studio artist at Collingwood Yards (supported by City of Yarra), is a member of the Image Collective, and is an Artistic Director for BLINDSIDE Gallery. In 2020, with Christine McFetridge, Josephine founded Co- : a Collaborative Publishing House, interested in bringing diverse voices to the fore.