Eye on the Mallee
On Sunday, January 12th, 2020, with the closure of the Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, the collaborative part of Photographing the Mallee finally comes to an end after 3 years. The 2019/2020 Mallee Routes exhibition is the swan song of the collaborative project; a project which in the end, became non-collaborative. This picture is of Adam Dutkiewicz in the Jean Sims section of the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery… Read More
On the lack of independent art criticism
The third and last collaborative Mallee Routes exhibition is now showing at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery throughout December and early January. What is so noticeably missing in action is the local review of this body of work. With no catalogue essay the exhibition becomes situated in a critical art vacuum, and it gives rise to a sense of cultural loneliness and isolation–the distance between art’s production and its reception. Consequently, the… Read More
photobook: its dual character
This limited edition photobook, which was printed by Momento Pro in Sydney, arrived via TNT courier at the studio in Encounter Bay late Tuesday afternoon. This is one form of self-publishing in the age of post-digital publishing. There is a long history to photography coming into books. The book has been designed to supplement my prints in the forthcoming 2019 Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery. It has a… Read More
Mallee Routes exhibition 2019
As mentioned in this previous blog post the last collaborative exhibition of the 3 year Mallee Routes project will be held at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery. It involves the 3 original photographers– Eric Algra, Gilbert Roe and myself— plus two extra photographers— Stuart Murdoch and Lars Heldmann. I will have a limited edition photobook in the exhibition which supplements my prints. The exhibition opens on December 8th 2019 and it closes… Read More
The Mallee’s unknown futures
The photography in the forthcoming Mallee Routes exhibition in late 2019 will now be spread across the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery’s three galleries, namely, the small Jean Symonds Gallery, the large Main Gallery and the small Sculpture Court gallery. These three galleries are linked and this gives the exhibition a unity. The overall exhibition is organised in terms of past (in the Jean Symonds Gallery), present (in the Main Gallery) and future… Read More
summing up exhibition: Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
The exhibition at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in South Australia has been shifted to 2019/2020 and it has been given larger space–the main gallery. The exhibition is a summing up exhibition of the 1st 3 years of the collaborative Mallee Routes project between Eric Algra, Gilbert Roe and myself.
Mallee Routes photobook
I am currently working on making another Mallee Routes photobook. It includes 35mm black and white images of the South Australia Mallee that I made in the 1980s, and it will have a small introduction. At this stage I have the selected and edited a bunch of small prints that are currently spread out on the table in the office.
exhibiting Mallee Routes at Swan Hill
Exhibiting Mallee Routes at the wonderful Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery in Victoria opened on Friday the 23rd March, was a great experience. The exhibition was the result of a years work photographing the South Australian and Victorian Mallee by Eric, Gilbert and myself Mallee after our initial exhibition at Atkins Photo Lab in Adelaide in late 2017. It was a successful opening with Mark Thomson giving an excellent opening speech based around… Read More