About the artist
Cash Buck is multidisciplinary, Australian artist whose practice is rooted in a philosophy of subtraction, the deliberate removal of what is untrue, inherited, or imposed. His work responds to the void left by cultural erasure, where accurate reflection was withheld. In that absence, Buck developed a disciplined way of seeing, one that constructs clarity internally and recognises meaning through both presence and omission.
This foundation continues to shape the work. Buck examines what does not belong, sets it aside, and allows the remnant and the removed to speak with equal force. The practice is not tied to a single medium. It moves between photography, three dimensional form, and spatial composition, guided by intention, accuracy, and a refusal to accept imposed roles or expectations.
The work reflects a life shaped by questioning, refusal, and reconstruction. It carries the quiet authority of something built from the inside out, not handed down. What remains in the work is what has proven itself true. What is removed carries its own meaning. Together they form a visual and spatial language that reclaims the architecture the world denied.
Selected exhibitions
Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, Solo Show, ‘blindspot’
Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Adelaide, Solo show, ‘doc[u]mentaries: The Palestine Story’
Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Group show, ‘Broken Window Theory’
Fuji ACMP Photographers Collection 8, National touring exhibition
Melbourne International Chamber Orchestra, curated contributor, ‘Seeing Music’
Awards & achievements
TEDx Adelaide, invited speaker
Magnum Photos Workshop, Selected participant based folio on worldwide application, FotoFreo
AIPP & AADC, multiple national awards
Arts SA, Project Grant for blindspot
TiLPA (Timor-Leste Photographers Association), Co-Founder
Selected published works
Books: Magnum Photos - Fremantle WorkshopThe Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers Collection 8
Magazines/Newspaper/Journals: FlakFoto, The Australian Magazine, The Bulletin, The Australian Financial Review, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, The West Australian Magazine, Frankie, Australian Creative, Curve Magazine (Australia), Dumbo feather pass it on, Entropy
Media
Art Monthly Australia; ‘Blindspot’ exhibition review
Australian Art Review; ‘Through a Lense Darkly’
Australian Creative, ‘Leading Australian Photographers
Oz Photo News; ‘Blindspot’ exhibition, Robert McFarlane
Frankie Magazine; imag[in]e project, year long image a day series
The Photojournalist, Griffith University; photo essay from the doc[u]mentaries project
The West Australian Magazine; ‘Behind The Walls of Palestine’
Curve Magazine, 4 dps feature on work and time in Nigeria