If you are a regular reader of this blog and based in Melbourne please consider coming to Monash Gallery of Art to the opening of my exhibition “Woven in Nature”, at 2:00PM on the 11th July. My work is being displayed on the Ramp Gallery, which is also the access to the MGA cafe. At the opening I will be demonstrating how I do my Photo “Impressions” Mosaics.
My exhibition runs from the 2nd July to 13th September.
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Monash Gallery of Art is recognized as having one of Melbourne’s leading Photo Collections. Other exhibitions running at the same time are “Presentation/Representation” Photography from Germany” (works of ten of Germany’s best contemporary photographers) and “David Hempenstall : Camp Slayer” (comprising 165 polaroid photographs from Camp Slayer inside the Abu Ghurayb Complex)
I’ve just been to the 25th birthday party of the monash gallery of art and shared some of the yummy birthday cake. Best of all the place was buzzing and not just with friends of the gallery, lots of kids where enjoying the photobooth and other activities or just running around in the wonderful surrounding outside. Not a soul with their eyes glued to their phone or iPad.The current exhibitions brings together some highlights of the mga photographic collection, which in turns includes many key photos in the Australian photography. The photos are hung in salon style and their physical presence is very powerful, and yet they display much originality and clarity in the essence of the subject captured. This is a very welcome change when so much of what is promoted as art is gobbled up on social media and small screens. Yet it is dominantly just look at me, wanna-be celebrity, copy cat stuff. It is a pleasure to step back a pace or two and contemplate good photography hung large (well 10” by 8” up) on a wall.
