Piggott at Citylights

• The Age

The outdoor artis-trun exhibition space Citylights recently turned five-years-old and one of its celebratory exhibitions is a series of four photographs by the lauded Melbourne artist Rosslynd Piggott.

While Citylights usually shows the work of less established artists, Piggott's studio is in a building adjacent to the Citylights light boxes in Centre Place, off Flinders Lane, and she says it has been her desire to show in them ``for years'' but she has been ``a bit busy''.

Piggott, who is also preparing for an exhibition of paintings at Fitzroy's Sutton Gallery in April and earlier this year exhibited in Antwerp and Tokyo, has produced a series of landscape photographs taken in Chinatown photobooths for the Citylights show. ``I felt like I really wanted to put energy into the local community. It's a very vital community down there at the moment. It's a forum for experimentation and resistance; this is resisting the niche of the established artist.''

Piggott's show, Storm, runs until December16 at the Centre Place site. Citylights also exhibits in light boxes in Hosier Lane.

Megan Backhouse