REVIEW: Sam Contis: Moving Landscape
Through a complex and nuanced investigation of movement and time, the photographic work of U.S. still-and-moving image artist Sam Contis, seductively unfolds across distinct landscapes. These populated terrains, as fragments, offer portals into worlds as different kinds of relationships to land, imbued with purpose and an experience of place. The images unpack the role that […]
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Hill End Analogue
Lauded for its higher dynamic range, analogue photography captures the ephemeral moment with all its nuance and detail. Colour for example is true to the moment, as are the idiosyncrasies of photographer, film, light, and exposure. It is also responsive to dark room process, where on-the-spot decisions influence tone, contrast and serendipity. As Hill End […]
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John Young
The youngest of four siblings, John Zerunge Young spent his childhood on the southern side of Hong Kong, in an art deco granite house that was scarred with Japanese bullet holes from the Second World War. As a child, looking out from the balcony he painted views of the sea and the sun setting over […]
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Helmut Newton
If you want a biography of Helmut Newton, look at the Helmut Newton Foundation official website or Wikipedia. It’s all there and it’s fascinating, but given I’m probably talking to a marginally informed audience let me summarise: Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest photographic artists and fashion photographers of the twentieth century. […]
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Bill Henson
Bill Henson is preparing for an upcoming show. He says that “new pictures grow out of old pictures. With these recently completed works there has been a twenty-two year gestation period.” Particular modes of figuration, themes, and textures have remained interesting to the artist over his career: young people in the fragile dawn of their […]
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Tracy Sarroff
With a self-proclaimed interest in science, Sarroff’s series Cyber Plants, 2017-21, examines the proliferation of growth in bioluminescence science, focusing on methods of genetic and fluorescent protein cloning from cellular organelles spliced into animals and plants to glow in the dark. With a haunting display of lit tentacles, and colourful celestial glows, the hybrid plant forms provide […]
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Julie Rrap
In front of Rrap’s Secret Strategies, Ideal Spaces series, 1987, viewers with an archival impulse might find themselves looking for wall text inside, or at the very least around, the image. In this photographic series, Rrap moves – usually naked to some degree, and often with markings on her body – in front of drawn reproductions of work from […]
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Tagged ARC ONE, ARC ONGE Gallery, feminist art, Julie Rrap, painting, performance, photography
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Imants Tillers: As soon as tomorrow
In a statement accompanying the exhibition, Tillers notes that “It all began with the shock of a fire in 2019 which destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Could this have been a portent of the coming apocalypse? The devastating fires in Eastern Australia followed soon after, only to be eclipsed by a plague which is still […]
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Naomi Hobson
The first thing that is surprising about Naomi Hobson’s Ritual – January First, currently exhibiting at Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, is that it is a show of photographs. Hobson, who has long painted intuitive, brightly coloured and somewhat abstracted landscapes (as described by the artist herself for Artist Profile), has become well-known for this work. Collected by […]
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Ballarat International Fotobiennale
What comes to mind when Ballarat, the regional Victorian town in the Central Highlands northwest of Melbourne, is mentioned? The gold rush of the late 1850s that swept this fledgling colonial outpost, and curiously Australia’s only attempt at a revolution: the fairly timid blink-and-you’d-miss-it Eureka Stockade uprising. Rebellion is a pretty neat thing to be […]
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Tagged Alix Marie, Ballarat International Fotobiennale, Linda McCartney, photography, Steve Arnold
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Samantha Everton
Anthea Polson Art surveys Everton’s photographic practice of post-colonial storytelling.
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Shoufay Derz
George Shaw writes about the poetry of Shoufay Derz’s latest series ‘In Memory of Water’.
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Tagged Australian Photography, Manly Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, photography, Shoufay Derz
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Lisa Reihana | Cinemania
Lisa Reihana’s survey exhibition‘Cinemania’ charts the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with the complexities of cultural identity,
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The photography of Raphaela Rosella
Raphaella Rosella sees things as they are, instinctively, without embellishment. She’s a gifted visual storyteller, never allowing her images to stray into patronising or exploitative territory.
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NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize
This year sees the inaugural NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize. With its theme asking artists to explore New South Wales landscape in focus, the prize was established to compliment the three year old NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Painting Prize. Chair of the Community Relations Commission, Stepan Kerkyasharian, saw the competition as an opportunity to explore not only the […]
PIETER HUGO @ GREENAWAY, ADELAIDE
ONE OF THE most celebrated African photographers of his generation, Pieter Hugo will soon be showing work from his Nollywood series at Greenaway Art Gallery in Adelaide. Read more about the artist and his fascinating subject matter from the Nigerian film industry in our 8-page feature article in AP Issue 10, where Hugo speaks with […]
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Tagged Adelaide, Africa, Greenaway Art Gallery, Nollywood, photography, Pieter Hugo
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