Plein air explorers (2008)
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Siri Hayes 2008 Australia
Siri Hayes
born Australia 1977
type C photograph
104.3 x 134.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2009
Stormy Weather
NGV Australia, The Ian Potter Centre
Friday 24 September 2010 to Sunday 20 March 2011
Exhibition
previously on
at
NGV Australia, The Ian Potter Centre
in
Melbourne precinct,
Victoria,
Australia
The work of the contemporary Australian photographers highlighted in this exhibition comes from a profound engagement with the lived landscape around them. The quiet intensity of their work comes from their close and sustained relationship to particular environments.
These photographers may use that lived observation to reveal the layers of history in a landscape; to provoke ecological concerns; as the place for site specific performances; or to use the specific poetics of light to reveal the beauty of a place. However for all of them, the real world is the starting point for images of particularity.
Photographers include Rosemary Laing; Harry Nankin; David Stephenson; Richard Woldendorp; Nici Cumpston, Anne Ferran and Jill Orr.
Location
NGV Australia, The Ian Potter CentreFederation Square
Melbourne Precinct
Victoria
Australia
