Provenance – Geoffrey Dunn
Provenance is an exhibition by Canberra-based mid-career photographer Geoffrey Dunn showcasing black and white portraits of Canberra photographers and artists.
“We can be familiar with people’s work but not the individuals creating it. Provenance illuminates the ‘Artists behind the Art’ in a series of intimate portraits of 8 Canberra artists.”
The exhibition opens at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre at 6pm, Thursday 17th August and runs to 10th September.
Braidwood Gum III – Janita Byrne
Nature’s Patterns is the culmination of a 100-day art project, with artist and educator Janita Byrne producing a pattern image, natural or hand made, and posted to her Instagram page Janita’s Studio. An exhibition of works from this project opens at Braidwood Community Art Gallery at 6pm, Saturday 25th March. Gallery hours are 10am-3pm for the weekend of 25th & 26th March.
Reproductions of some of Janita’s pastels were printed on Epson Cold Press Natural.
David and I – Casey Crockford
Collective Rhythm is a social documentary project exploring Canberra’s swing dance community by emerging artist Casey Crockford.
“From dance halls to homes, my photographs and video work explore how this recreational activity permeates the lives of those enamoured by its charms. In all its energy and excitement, the collective love of the dance has formed a solid community based on shared learning and individual expression – one of which I am myself involved in and enraptured by – and therefore wish to capture and share with the world outside of it.”
The exhibition opens at 6pm Thursday 1st December at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and runs to 11th December.
Something that I looked at in the landscape 2016 – Annika Harding
In the Landscape has emerging artists Amy Dunn and Annika Harding use the photograph as a starting point and add paint to explore the relationship between the artist or figure and the landscape.
“Photography is the means by which I observe and record my interactions with the landscape. While the digital photographic image usually informs paintings in my practice, in this body of work, I have explored this process in a different way. The photograph is printed, and then paint is used to record and highlight my interactions with the landscape. As well as flat colour and metallic paint, the paint that I have used in this work includes interference paints, which at certain angles appear almost transparent, but at others lights up with iridescence. These works each explore one particular way that I interacted with a particular landscape: things that I looked at, things that I touched, the way that I walked through the landscape, things that I put into the landscape, or things that I thought or said.”
The exhibition is showing at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre until 2nd October.
Slater – Brenton McGeachie
In the exhibition Preset Memory five well-established Canberra artists: Blaide Lallemand, Ellis Hutch, Brenton McGeachie, Mark Van Veen and Lee Grant use experimental approaches revealing intriguing individual viewpoints expressed as photography. Brenton’s intriguing photographs of the shells of insect bodies invite viewers to take a close look at the subtle complexities of their architecture.
The exhibition opens at 6pm on 8th September at M16 Artspace and runs to 25th September.
Untitled – Thea McGrath
BULB, a PhotoAccess members’ exhibition, is now showing at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre. The title of the show comes from “bulb” mode, namely where a camera’s shutter will remain open for as long as the photographer’s finger remains on the shutter release button. The exhibition runs until 7th August.
Blessings of the Triple Gem – Chris Whitelaw
Inspired by a journey through Sri Lanka at the time of the Buddhist New Year (Aluth Avurudhu), Blessings of the Tripe Gem explores the nature of Buddhism and the traditions that permeate the contemporary culture and daily lives of the Sinhalese people.
The exhibition is showing at the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Pialba from 26th March to 8th May. The opening is at 6pm on 1st April.
Undertoe (detail) – Dörte Conroy
Undertoe is a photographic exhibition by Canberra-based artist Dörte Conroy, showcasing graphic glimpses of the ground plane around Hobart’s waterfront and in Sydney’s older areas. Conroy says:
“walking, looking and seeing… I have a fascination with the endless variety of patterns, shapes and colours right at my feet – infinitely diverse patterns in the urban environment. As I wander, I observe the ground; focusing on a small segment of the bigger picture.”
The exhibition opens at M16 Artspace at 6pm on Thursday 11th February and continues to 28th February.
Addict, 2013 – Shintaro Marky
And the Monkey Flips the Switch, works in ink and watercolour by Mark Sullivan (aka Shintaro Marky), opens at the Barthe House Gallery in Woolloomooloo, Sydney at 6pm on Thursday 6th August. The show runs to 30th October.
The morticians, 2014 – Rohan Thomson
Congratulations to Rohan Thomson who was selected as a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) for 2015. This annual exhibition reflects the distinctive vision of Australia’s aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. The exhibition is currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and runs to 8th June.
