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| Simone Douglas - Ever series |
Simone was one of my tutors during my Fine Arts degree at COFA. She was massively influential on encouraging and developing my work at an early stage, and I still feel such affinity and resonance with her work. Her work investigates "...the photographic in relation to the sublime, to excess and immateriality and the perceptual uncertainty of the photographic". ("Ever" catalogue quote from Artereal Gallery)
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| Simone Douglas - Ever series |
She's currently showing at both
Artereal Gallery in a solo show called
"Ever", and also in
"Photography and Place" at the Art Gallery of NSW. They are both fantastic shows - "Ever", to me was like stepping into some sort of elemental crucible - fire and ice shifted, bubbled and cracked. The images draw the viewer in by virtue of their small scale, and their stunning beauty, and then challenge the viewer with the almost harsh and monumental view. A true meditation on the sublime if there ever was one.
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| Simone Douglas - Ever series |
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| Simone Douglas - Ever series |
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| Simone Douglas - Blind Series |
"Photography and Place" is a sort of retrospective of Australian Landscape Photography from 1970 to the present day. The show is curated in such a way as to guide the viewer from a formalist, mainly black and white suite of images, very "Australian" in their subject matter - gum trees, vast outback plains etc - to a more abstract meditation on the landcsape. Favourites were Simone Douglas' "Blind" series and Anne Ferran's "Lost to World's" series.
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| Anne Ferran - from Lost to Worlds series. Image via here. |
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