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| Artist Talk, Subiaco Library, 30 August 2011 |
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| 7x7x7 artist talk, 7 July 2010 |
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| 6x6 artist talk, 18 May 2010 |
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| Eva Fernandez, Saddle, 2009, (from series Memento Mori) Giclee print, 100x70cm Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery |
Transient States
10 May - 12 July 2009
Curator: Sally Quin
Kevin Ballantine
Rebecca Dagnall
Eva Fernandez
Karin Gottschalk
Michael Gray
Mark McPherson
Graham Miller
Tony Nathan
Max Pam
Juha Tolonen
Toni Wilkinson
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| Transient States - Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery |
Transient States presents a range of creative responses to the urban landscape of Perth, a city whose physical fabric appears to be in a state of continual and often radical transition. This exhibition considers how this phenomenon manifests itself in the work of eleven photographers whose work reflects a sustained meditation on place, memory, and collective and individual identity.Exhibiting photographers document the shifting landscape in a variety of ways: recording disused or decaying spaces or the suspended moment prior to an object’s collapse; presenting the architecture of the city or domestic environment as the framework within which the human condition can be analysed; and focusing on physical environments which question current taste and notions of comfort and authenticity.
The urban landscape is frequently depicted as a somewhat malevolent backdrop to human activity but, equally, environments of unexpected beauty and refuge are also pictured. Approaches range from a formalist arrangement of architectural elements to a fantastical approach to the possibilities of the spaces in which we live. A number of series of works from the 1980s are included and act as a counterpoint to contemporary explorations of the city, underlining themes of transience and memory.
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| Ric Spencer, West Australian Newspaper, Friday May 22, 2009 |
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| catalogue Diagram exhibition, curated by Perdita Phillips and Stuart Elliot. |
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| telopea speciosissima, 2009, card board, film and glue, 25 x 15 cm. |
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| CLIP Award, |
