[inline\:Centenary for web.jpg]
With more than a reverential nod to Katsushika Hokusai and his 100 Views of Mt Fuji\, PhotoAccess is pleased to announce its major Centenary of Canberra project\, 100 Views of Canberra.
Supported by the ACT Government’s Community Centenary Initiatives Fund\, 100 Views of Canberra is a project inviting Canberra region photographers to submit images showing Canberra in all of its guises—the public face\, the homely\, the grungy\, the youthful and everything that makes our vibrant contemporary city tick.
100 images by 100 photographers will be selected for an August 2013 exhibition in the HUW DAVIES GALLERY at the Manuka Arts Centre accompanied by a high quality book.
Entries will be received from 9 July to 30 November 2012.
Terms and conditions and instructions for submitting entries\, including image requirements\, are in the [inline\:100 Views of Canberra information.pdf=100 Views of Canberra information sheet] you can download here.
Entry is free but entrants must be or become PhotoAccess members and agree to comply with the PhotoAccess Constitution and Code of Conduct. If you are not a current member you will need to apply for membership and pay the $20 membership fee at Enrol Now.
If you are a current member or have applied for membership and paid the membership fee you can submit one image and your brief biography and artist statement by email to 100Views@photoaccess.org.au (copy this address to your email account)
Please put 100 Views of Canberra in the subject line.
We look forward to seeing your take on the Canberra only Canberrans really know.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20130523T123725Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120726T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120812T160000Z UID:http://www.photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/372 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/372 SUMMARY:Winter Postcards 2012 DESCRIPTION:[inline\:Postcards for web.jpg]
Images\: Alan Charlton and Judy Parker
Members have opportunities to show work in three group exhibitions this year. 'Winter Postcards' is the second members’ exhibition for 2012\, giving everyone a chance to share their work and the incidents and emotions of their recent winters.
'Hang it yourself 2012' is the next exhibition open to all members\, beginning on 18 October and running to 4 November. Our major Centenary of Canberra project\, '100 Views of Canberra'\, is also open to all members. I encourage you to read the detailed information on the PhotoAccess website and join in this exciting effort to tell the story of Canberra only Canberrans know.
As with last year’s 'Winter Holiday Snaps'\, some members have stayed local and some have brought back images from far away holidays\, sharing a mix of exotic places and faces with us. Karen Dace\, Elizabeth Casling\, John Boyd Macdonald and Alan Charlton’s evocative landscapes couldn’t be more reminiscent of the chill of winter. As too Judy Parker’s beautiful abstractions of cold\, hard machinery parts made elegant by frost. Ginette Snow’s 'Stacks'\, with hints of Rosemary Gascoigne’s famous found object works\, suggest the cool of winter in meticulous patterning and colour choices. Julie Garran\, Shan Crosbie and Darren Weinert have shown us faces of winter in other countries.
But not everything is so literally representative of winter. Hayley King’s series suggests a memorable time in her life\; Kerry Baylor’s grim images allude to holidays in warmer places. As with 'Winter Holiday Snaps' last year there is diversity and plenty to admire and think about in 'Winter Postcards 2012'.
David Chalker
[inline\:Postcards catalogue.pdf=Catalogue]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20130523T123725Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120726T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120812T160000Z UID:http://www.photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/373 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/373 SUMMARY:Peri genesin - Laila Kazak DESCRIPTION:[inline\:Laila for web.jpg]
We first saw Laila Kazak’s work at the end of 2011 in the graduating students’ exhibition at the ANU School of Art. Leila completed her Bachelor of Arts (Digital Arts) with Honours at the ANU in 2011.
We were struck by the conceptual and technical innovation of Laila’s work and thought it should be made available to a wider audience. Laila was invited to show the work in the HUW DAVIES GALLERY Multimedia Room this year and this is its first showing in a public art gallery. Laila has described the project in these terms\:
'For my Honours practice\, I attempted to remove the reliance on the ‘camera’s eye’ in video-art. By projecting and re-filming footage until it lost all clarity\, and through the use of large lenses\, the resulting works were devoid of any explicit relation to ‘what’ the works were recordings ‘of’\; that is\, what the camera originally captured.
In revisiting the works\, I have removed them further from video and towards photography. I have converted each video (which is an infinite loop) into a colour paper negative\, and used an enlarger to project the image. This broadens the scope of my original aims to include comment on the comparisons between the photograph that can be made explicitly tactile through the enlarger\, and video\, which may end with the projection\, on screen or otherwise'.
'Peri genesin' is presented here through the lenses of two large format enlargers operated by control panels. The interplay of the enlargers and the sounds of filters changing brings a new dimension to this exhibition of the work.
PhotoAccess is delighted to present Laila Kazak’s 'Peri genesin' to visitors to the HUW DAVIES GALLERY.
David Chalker
[inline\:Laila Kazak room sheet.pdf=Catalogue]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20130523T123725Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120816T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120902T160000Z UID:http://www.photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/375 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/375 SUMMARY:I closed my eyes and saw this - Dan O'Day DESCRIPTION:[inline\:Dan for web.jpg]
Wedding photography seemed an odd career choice for Dan O’Day following his very successful 2006 exhibition 'Still' in the HUW DAVIES GALLERY. Variously a painter\, singer in a rock band\, occasional bureaucrat and emerging photo artist at that time\, 'Still' looked set to put him on course to a different career.
We can be grateful O’Day’s runaway success as a wedding photographer over the past six years hasn’t distracted him from the importance of creating and showing evocative new work. 'I closed my eyes and saw this' is the result of his latest imagining\, an imagination he applies to and which is\, I am certain\, the reason for his success as a commercial photographer.
In a conversation with him some years ago O’Day said he approached all of his weddings as if he was shooting for an exhibition. This approach has resulted in a large body of outstanding wedding images that could themselves make for an inspiring exhibition.
Canberra continues to provide a base for O’Day when he is not travelling in Australia and overseas for wedding assignments or to pick up awards. He has maintained contact with PhotoAccess and contributes to our work generally and to group exhibitions from time to time. His solo exhibitions have kept him in touch with the gallery world\, particularly in Melbourne through the CATHERINE ASQUITH GALLERY\, and his work is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.
Writing about his 'Still' exhibition in 2006 I said that\:
'While the tradition of storytelling in photography is a time honoured one\, going back almost to its beginnings\, Dan O’Day’s approach to pictorial narrative is unmistakeably of his time … While there is beauty on the surface of these evocative\, occasionally menacing and at times whimsical images\, they are richly suggestive of the vast dimensions of stillness and being alone— and of the occasionally dark implications of both. … Questions of meaning and intention can’t be avoided in the face of Dan O’Day’s images'.
Those comments apply equally to the work in 'I closed my eyes and saw this'\, where O’Day continues to reflect on life and his experience of it. Perhaps things are improving\: as he says in his brief Artist Statement ‘To be here in this moment is easier than it used to be\, and that ‘stillness’ I used to run from\, I now find myself running toward’. We are pleased Dan O’Day continues to embrace life in all its light and darker dimensions and delighted to welcome him back to the HUW DAVIES GALLERY at the Manuka Arts Centre.
David Chalker
[inline\:Dan O'Day catalogue.pdf=Catalogue]
[inline\:Dan O'Day small prints list.pdf=Small prints list]
END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR