The National Gallery of Victoria currently has three Peter Dombrovskis…
Exhibition: Exposed Lands – 100 Years of Tasmanian Landscape Photography
‘This exhibition is a survey of 100 years of photographic history depicting Tasmania’s nature, sharing perspectives of the island, Lutruwita, as Aboriginal Country, as well as terrain charted by colonists’ exploration, adventure and exploitation. These images reveal an island State through the lens of landscape, capturing meanings of place, nature’s beauty and resources, as well as exposing shifting conceptions of the natural world and boundaries of the photographic medium. This exhibition encompasses images developed from wet-plate processes and albumen prints, original cibachrome prints, as well as contemporary digital works, and is accompanied by selected photographic equipment from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection.’ TM&AG website.
Photograph above: Jackie H Robinson (1883 – 1953), Man on Horse, West Coast (Tasmania),1912-1935. Digital inkjet print from original glass plate negative.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart until 18 October 2026
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This looks to be a very interesting exhibition.
I understand that it includes photographs from the archives: original glass-plate negatives captured by early 20th-century amateur photographer Jackie H. Robinson between 1912 and 1935; the museum’s earliest photographic holdings feature 19th-century wet-collodion plates and albumen prints; original cibachrome prints—a mid-to-late 20th-century.
It also includes a counterbalance to the archives –eg., recent work by David Stephenson, namely Lake King William on the River Derwent, Hydro Electric Development, Tasmania (https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/93.1985/) and Styx Valley, Tasmania (2004).
For those interested the Brett Galley in Hobart had an exhibition in 2022 of David Stephenson’s photographs of trees entitled Survivors .
The photographs were made with a 5×7 wooden camera and b+w film. The film has been “solarised” during development by briefly flashing it with light causing a partial reversal of the photographic tonalities.
The link to the exhibition is below:
https://www.bettgallery.com.au/exhibitions/264-david-stephenson-survivors/