I guess it was in my DNA as I can always remember being interested in how photos were made. My mother recalls, at the age of 6, asking her if it was a special kind of paper that had to…
View Camera Australia is seeking submissions from large format photographers working in Australia and New Zealand for the sixteenth online exhibition. Previous exhibitions can be seen here. Please get in touch via the contact page here for a set of…
‘On the street where I live showcases the photography of artist Viva Jillian Gibb (1945–2017). Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s she documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived. For nearly two decades, this was the primary focus of her work. Jewel-like portraits predominate, with her subjects set in a distinctive inner-suburban landscape. Grounded in her strong social and political convictions, Gibb created a sympathetic portrait of the community during a…
Melbourne Dry Plates is a new venture by photographer Bianca Conwell, to supply handmade photographic Dry Plates to large format photographers in Australia and beyond. Small batch Silver Gelatin emulsion is made in her darkroom in Melbourne, and glass plates…
'Flowers have long stood in for what could not be spoken aloud: sex, death, longing, defiance. Soft in appearance yet potent in meaning, they are among art history’s great deceivers. Across centuries and cultures, the bloom has functioned as a visual…
White Peony. 9.6 x 12 cm carbon single transfer print Using flowers as a subject has been an ongoing project of mine for several years. My aim has been to create portraits of flowers, combining traditional representation with macro imagery…
‘Almost alone amongst artists and quite rare amongst modern photographers, he takes us to the natural world without artifice, without emphasis, without decoration, without altering a thing. And he opens our eyes and our hearts to something enduring, something very…
Colour Factory Gallery. Fitzroy “Icelanders know that the recent chaos caused to air travellers around the world after the volcanic eruptions by Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull could…
This exhibition is part of an ongoing series of major retrospective exhibitions at Western Australia's Bunbury Regional Art Gallery by some of the most…