Younghusband x QUID PRO QUO Curated by Tameka Cater Kensington, Naarm/Melbourne January 2026 In Quid Pro Quo , Ali McCann re-presents Songs and Pictures , a photographic series that interrogates photography’s historical entanglements with desi
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / Younghusband x QUID PRO QUO (2026)
Ali McCann / Return to Social Curated by Emma Thompson correspondences, Naarm/Melbourne 19 July to 17 August 2024 Ali McCann / Return to Social revisits the artist's performance,  SOCIAL , co-presented with musician/composer Mat Wa
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / RETURN TO SOCIAL (2024)
Sentimental Pictures is an ongoing photographic project first presented in Not for the sake of something more , curated by Kiron Robinson and shown at Sarah Scout Presents as part of PHOTO 2021: International Festival of Photography. The project
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / SENTIMENTAL PICTURES (2023)
Ali_McCann_Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops_2022.jpg
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / JOY (2022-2023)
O Jenny G , 2023 In a 1995 essay, the art historian Jennifer A. González coined the term ‘autotopography’ to describe how the accumulation of personal objects – heirlooms, mementoes, travel souvenirs and photographs – become physical extensions of
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / O JENNY G (2023)
SOCIAL_PROMO.jpg
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / SOCIAL (2022)
Songs & Pictures is a study of photography’s history, desire, and the tensions between the male and female gaze. My image making methodology involves appropriating images of young, conventionally attractive women, sourced from my late grandfa
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / SONGS & PICTURES (2022 - 2023)
Ali_McCann_The Alps_2020.jpg
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / NOT FOR THE SAKE OF SOMETHING MORE (2021)
ST FRANCIS , Temporary warehouse site, Collingwood, Melbourne 19.10.2019 Over a number of weeks I restaged and documented selected photographic works from recent solo and group shows in a disused (and since demolished) warehouse in Collingwood, M
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / HAVING AN EXPERIENCE/ ENERGY ORGANISATION (2019)
Faye , 2019 Οι νέοι Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne/Naarm 08.02.2019 – 23.03.2019 Οι νέοι is a photographic exploration of adolescence, nostalgia and the aesthetics of pedagogy. The Greek title, derived from Hannah Arendt’s seminal essay
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / Οι νέοι (2019)
Ali McCann_The Importance of Nature.jpg
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / MASKS FOR MAGICIANS (2018)
Diminished Knowledge, 2018 Patinated bronze, 18.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / DIMINISHED KNOWLEDGE (2018)
Polytechnic Tristian Koenig, Melbourne 15.03.2018 – 14.04.2018 Curated by Tristian Koenig Taking aesthetic cues from outmoded art-and-design text books, science teaching aids, 70s amateur photography magazines, educational films, and inaccura
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / POLYTECHNIC (2018)
Untitled 1 , 2017
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / AN INTRODUCTION TO LIMINAL AESTHETICS (2017)
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / TOWARD NEW KNOWLEDGE (2017)
Throwing Off The Hump Kings Artist Run, Melbourne 08.04.2017 – 29.04.2017 Deriving its title from a labour-efficient potting technique, Throwing Off the Hump is a multi-channel video installation that ruminates on the Sisyphean burden of mem
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / THROWING OFF THE HUMP (2017)