Flinders Street, 2017
(2017)
Medium
digital type C photograph
Measurements
110.4 × 77.8 cm (image) 112.0 × 82.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2025
© Ruth O'Leary
Gallery location
Gallery 14
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Ruth O’Leary works across photography, video art, installation and performance. After the birth of her first child, O’Leary found it challenging to continue staging traditional photography shoots as she had done in the past. Determined to maintain her art practice, she began taking the train to Melbourne's Flinders Street Station with her baby, along with costumes and backdrops, and transformed the photobooth nearby into a makeshift studio. Captured in a single take, this photograph and other works from this series marked a turning point in O’Leary’s practice – where motherhood and artmaking were no longer in conflict, but rather, in dialogue.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Accession Number
2025.685
Department
Australian Photography