Hilary Wardhaugh’s Urban opens at The Artists Shed, Queanbeyan at 6pm on Saturday 25th May.

“I have focussed on the idea of public space, places where anyone can do anything at any given moment; work, play, create art, fight, discard, drink. Humanity creates spaces of beauty within the urban environment; but left, it decays. This beauty and subsequent decay reveals a generic feel to urban community even though these images are captured in different spaces around Australia. There were many people using the spaces at the time but as I prefer to quietly observe from a distance, it intrigues me that the resulting images lack human involvement and have a sense of stillness too.”

The paper selected by Hilary for these prints was Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth.