Chris Womersley
Steve Womersley
Chris Womersley [detail] 2025
Portrait of Chris Womersley
Silver Gelatin print
68 x 54 cm
About the Artwork
In 2025, I photographed my brother, the novelist Chris Womersley, during the auction of our late mother’s house. Judy Womersley was also a life-long writer. She penned countless newspaper articles, poems, fiction, and non-fiction works, many in the very room from which we followed the auction underway outside. The auction promised us a degree of financial security we’d never experienced as independent adults—a privilege, as mum would have rightly noted, not afforded to every Australian. The auction also heralded the farewell to a home around which our little family had orbited for 30 years, itself the wellspring for endless stories that we now carry forward without our mother.
About the Artist
Steve Womersley is an award-winning photographer who lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria. He is an occasional contributor to The Guardian Australia, was a finalist in the 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, and was nominated for the 2025 Prix Pictet International. In 2020, he was Runner Up in the Portrait category of Capture magazine’s Top Emerging Australasian Photographers.