Frédéric Mouchet’s photographic exhibition 7 Mythical Places opens at the Kaori Gallery in Civic, Canberra at 5:30pm on Thursday 10th May. The exhibition runs until 5th June. Read the rest of this entry »

Vikky’s second show at the Queensland Centre of Photography opens at 5pm on Saturday 5th May and continues until 3rd June.

“The oft-quoted ‘children can be so cruel’ is beautifully illustrated in the concept of the Chinese Burn, a seemingly innocent game kids have played for generations. In addition to the issue of ideologically unsound language, there is something inherently nasty in what is put forth as a simple little twist but in reality finds it origin in torture. It is said that these activities develop important life skills in both the perpetrator and the victim, it just may be several years before benefit may be gained in learning to navigate one’s group of peers become apparent.” Read the rest of this entry »

Access all areas 2012: The PhotoAccess Members Show opens at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre at 6pm on Thursday 3rd May. The exhibition continues until 20th May.

Artists with works printed by Macquarie Editions include: David Chalker, Alan Charlton, Jane Duong, Daniel Evans, Jane Greagg, Chris Jones, Jo Kamira, Kate Luke, John Macdonald, Nadia McLeish, Bhavana Moylan, Barbie Robinson, Richard Scherer, Tony Stewart, Ed Whalan and Josh Wodak.

Saturday Morning Water is a collection of modern but timeless images from Newcastle’s beach-side Merewether Baths.

“My family practically lived at Merewether Baths. Everything appeared hazy and blurred through stinging saltwater-filled eyes. Mum, Dad and the regulars swam laps … I admired their discipline. I learnt to swim there. I almost drowned there. Safety was the teacher’s matronly bosom and floral bathing cap. I floated and daydreamed. I got my first kiss there … it was a stolen one, underwater. I giggled and gossiped and made lifelong friends. My camera is guided by these memories.”

The exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday 5th April at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and continues until 29th April. Read the rest of this entry »

Jon’s images document the human side of work undertaken by the company Silver Raven: firstly the rehabilitation of an old coal silo at Ravensworth in the Hunter Valley, and secondly the pumping out of the Baralaba Coal Mine that filled with water during the Queensland floods of 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Josh Wodak’s Sense of Surroundings is an exhibition of street photography and candid portraiture of Spain from 2010.

“It explores the boundary between sensing and making sense of one’s surroundings. The series concerns the complex interplay between humans and urban landscapes, to depict slithers of understanding from looking amidst the flux of surrounding humans. Human subjects appear to relate to their surrounding environments as seemingly small elements in the compositions, to express the relationship between the photographs as infinitesimal life slices amidst the flux of the wider world.”

The exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday 15th March at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and continues until 1st April. Read the rest of this entry »

Sekala: ritual and ceremony in Bali is a collection of images made when John and his wife were working for a year in a textile arts foundation in Ubud, Bali. It shows traditional ceremonial life not typically seen by tourist visitors.

“Generations of western artists and diverse other visitors have been captivated by the Balinese people, their culture and landscape. There are many ways for the visitor to see Bali – as a palm-fringed tourist resort, as an exploited third-world economy with a culture under threat, or as some idealised spiritual oasis in an otherwise materialistic world. The reality of course is much more complex and multifaceted – our stereotypes may tell us more about ourselves and our own cultures than about the real Bali.”

The exhibition opens at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre at 6pm on Thursday, 23rd February and runs until 11th March. Read the rest of this entry »

Memories from Fire is a heritage project encouraging grandmothers and grandfathers to explore their family oral histories, stories and memories. Belinda’s images document the event held around a fire at Lake Ginnindera. The exhibition is showing at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre until 19th February. Read the rest of this entry »

Alternatives is a group exhibition of work by Andrée Lawrey, Susan Henderson and Lorna Sim, exploring alternative imaging techniques and processes, mixing and matching plastic cameras, medium format film, digital capture, traditional sun prints, digital stitches and montages, retro phone camera apps etc. The exhibition is now showing at Abell’s Kopi Tiam restaurant in Manuka. Read the rest of this entry »

Homelands is an exhibition of photographs by Nadia McLeish and paintings by Kate Carruthers. The show opens at 3pm on Saturday, 26th November at the Old Cheese Factory, Reidsdale and runs to 19th December (weekends only). Read the rest of this entry »