Enter the unique urban world of Melbourne artist, Robert Clinch, whose meticulously detailed landscapes are imbued with poetry and disquiet, sentimentality and humour, silence and protest. Clinch’s work is accessible yet mysterious as he creates fascinating and compelling images from apparently ordinary urban scenes.

Insights into the world of an emerging artist

Over the last 10 years, Dutch photographer Marrigje de Maar has travelled through China, Laos, Thailand and Mongolia photographing interiors whose inhabitants are felt but rarely seen. Her images of Tibetan monastery kitchens, places between everyday life and religious life, the pots, hobs and smoked walls all speak of daily routines and the people who perform them and, in turn, are shaped by them. A core exhibition for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013.

The 2011 Christchurch earthquake lasted for 37 devastating seconds. New Zealand photographer Doc Ross. Whose work seeks to capture the sense of isolation in the transience of existence, has created 37 portraits of people affected by the earthquake. Each sitter was asked to sit for 37 seconds and the images are accompanied by their stories, told in 37 words. A core exhibition for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013.

Western Australian photographer Hewitt is fascinated and drawn to the elegance, purpose and beauty of the structures underlying the chaos of urban development, believing they form the physical foundations of not just where we live, but how we live.The exhibition title refers to the popular concrete formula of 3 parts gravel, 2 parts sand, 1 part cement.

For this project, Canadian photographer Sheena Macrae's tracked down projectionists who had souvenired 35mm frames from films they had screened, which she has then enlarged, including scratches and sprocket holes, evoking fragments of cinematic memory. A core exhibition for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013.

Meredith O'Shea's photographs are about people and their stories. She lives with her subjects and documents what she sees—nothing is premeditated. The images take the viewer to a place that is normally private, sometimes forbidden. Through her lens she reveals human beings at their most vulnerable. The photographs are confronting to some, but they are everyday realities to many.

Chris Nicholls lived in an isolated locality near the Grampians, surrounded by ancient eucalypts and flat, cropped fields. His landscapes show a strong connection with the natural world and a concern for the havoc wreaked by man in development and lack of care for the environment.

This exhibition celebrates 25 years of guiding at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. It brings together a selection of works from the Gallery collection which have particular associations for the Gallery Guides.

This major national touring exhibition of paintings from the National Gallery of Australia celebrates Australia's Federation and the significant era leading up to the founding of Canberra, the federal capital in 1913.