lily frances dowd

lily dowd is a contemporary photography-based artist situated in pōneke. she works primarily in medium format film photography, and camera-less techniques called lumen prints. currently going into the final year of her master's in fine arts, lily completed her bachelor of design with first class, majoring in photography in 2021.

Dowd often gravitates to themes and ideas surrounding memory and personal experience. asking questions to how we return back to moments through photographs and remember through them. using cameraless techniques, dowd feels an organic connection to the lived experience captured directly and abstractly on the surface of the gelatin silver paper.

her current research asks questions of what a photograph means and if her work fits into this category. moving into a collaboration, dowd and the paper move in front of one another, marking, exposing, aging, changing and disappearing…

Qualifications

Uncompleted – Currently in her final year, Masters in Fine arts

2021 Bachelor of Design with Honours, First Class Honours in Photography

Solo and Group Exhibitions

2022 Potluck, Play_station Gallery, Volunteer Show 

2021 Comma, Twenty-Six Gallery Newtown

2021 Exposure Graduate Exhibition, Massey Wellington College of Creative Art

Publications

2021 Yesterday Home, Finalist in Photobook NZ, Sits in

Te Papa’s rare books collection

Awards

2023 Massey University Master's Research Scholarship

2023 graduate Women Manawatū Postgraduate Scholarship

2022 Massey University Scholar Award

2022 Photobook NZ Finalist (Yesterday Home)

2022 CATEGORY WINNER- Print finishing award, The Pride In Print Awards, Printed and Entered By: Wakefields Digital (Yesterday Home)

2021 SELECTED ANZ STUDENT PHOTOBOOKS (Yesterday Home)

2020 Massey University Undergraduate Scholarship

2018 Massey University Vice Chancellor’s High Achiever with Distinction Scholarship (Academic and Arts)

internships

2022 Peter turner lecture internship

2022 Inhabit, Inhabit inaugural activation in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Created by Holli McEntegart

Workshops/ Interviews

2023 Lumen Printing, Susurrations, a vibrant celebration of Women in Photography NZ + AU in collaboration with Twentysix Gallery and sponsored by Splendid. 

2022 Women In Photography NZ & AU, Instagram Take Over and Interview

2021 Comma, Twenty-Six Gallery Newtown

Current Employment:

Te Whare Hēra Assistant

The programme is a Massey University College of Creative Arts, Whiti o Rehua (School of Art) and Wellington City Council initiative