Wentworth photocamp
I am planning to go on a photocamp at Wentworth and the lower Darling River next Thursday (25th of April) for the Mallee Routes project. I want to travel slowly to Wentworth as I need to spend time in the Wimmera Mallee region, retracing my steps from an earlier exploration. I will probably stay over night at Murtoa or Donald before going onto Wentworth. My plan in the Wimmera is very dependant on the… 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
a Wimmera detour through historical traces
I am off to Melbourne to attend the Melbourne Art Book Fair 2019 at the NGV and to see what is happening in the world of Photobooks. I plan to make a detour via the Wimmera Mallee as the weather forecast is for overcast cloud cover and cool conditions around the Horsham region. It is forecasted to be hot and sunny on the return leg to Adelaide, which is not good conditions… 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.
interiors
This kind of late photography in the era of television and newer technologies turns up late, wanders through the places where things have happened, and explores the effects of the activity of a world gone. Though people are absent in this photography of traces, fragments, empty buildings there is a lot of remnants of activity
Yanga Station: woolshed and homestead
On my last photocamp at Balranald I photographed in and around the Yanga Station including the Woolshed and the homestead.
second roadtrip to Balranald
I leave for another road trip to Balranald early Tuesday (11th September) morning. I need to build up some large format images for the forthcoming collaborative Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery early in 2019. I just don’t have enough work for this last collaborative exhibition, and I need to make the pictures before it becomes too hot to photograph in the northern Mallee. I plan to camp… Read More
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.
Balranald photocamp: pastoralism
The winter photocamp at Balranald with Gilbert Roe consisted of photographing on the property of John and Marita Standen’s Rosenhoe farm, which is on the Wakool River, and scoping the area around Balranald itself, which is is located in Mutthi Mutthi traditional country. I would have liked to extend the photocamp to do more exploring and some large format photography, but I had to return to Adelaide to prepare for the Collaboration: Interrogating Melbourne’s changing urban… Read More
roadtrip to Balranald, NSW
In a couple of days I am off on a roadtrip to Balranald in NSW for a winter photocamp with Gilbert Roe. I need to make some photos for the forthcoming exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in February 2019. I am squeezing the roadtrip inbetween finishing working on the photos for the SALA festival exhibition and the opening of the actual exhibition with Stuart Murdoch on the 3rd August at the… Read More