Rosemary Laing 'Flight ResearcH # 5'
EXHIBITION REVIEW // LIGHTNESS & GRAVITY
Callum Ross reviews Lightness & Gravity at GOMA.
While twentieth century concerns redefined the notion of gravity, it can be said that more contemporary artists are in search for lightness, as a reaction to the weight of living.
The exhibition, Lightness and Gravity at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) on show until the 5th of November, engages with these opposing characters, meditating between the weighty and playful, the meaningful and arbitrary to gesticulate the possibility of life’s weight and meaning.
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Published on May 10, 2012 2:43 pm.
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Shen Wei 'Chinese Sentiment'
REVIEW // SHEN WEI “CHINESE SENTIMENT”
Book review by Callum Ross.
Born and raised in Shanghai, Shen Wei is a fine art photographer currently based in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of the City of New York, Griffin Museum of Photography, the Harn Museum of Art and the Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Shen Wei has recently been included to the Queensland Centre for Photography’s international artist page.
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Published on May 10, 2012 2:02 pm.
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Trine Søndergaard 'Strude' 2007-2009
INTERVIEW // TRINE SONDERAARD
Callum Ross interviews Danish artist Trine Søndergaard
Trine Søndergaard (b. 1972) is a Danish photography based artist. Søndergaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Trine Søndergaard’s work is marked by a precision and a sensibility that co-exists with a rigorous interrogation of the medium of photography, its boundaries and what constitutes an image. Layered with meaning and quiet emotion, her works are highly acclaimed for their visual intensification of our perception of reality. Trine Søndergaard has recently been included to the Queensland Centre for Photography’s international artists page.
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Published on May 10, 2012 12:13 pm.
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Cuba on the Cusp of Change – Jacques Maudy
Sunshine Coast photographer Jacques Maudy says Cuba is on the cusp of extraordinary change. He states that the communist government wants to move a quarter of the country’s population into private enterprise over the course of the next 12 months. Maudy travelled to Cuba to document the people and its places first-hand in a stunning range of photographs. These will be showcased at the Queensland Centre for Photography from May 5 to June 3. The exhibition is titled “A Pain That Doesn’t Kill You Doesn’t Last Forever…”
The ABC caught up with Maudy to gain an insight into his project. Click the image for the link to the interview .
Published on May 3, 2012 2:18 pm.
Filed under: EVENTS
NOTES // WINNER OF QFP4 PORTRAIT PRIZE
Announcement of the winners of the first QFP4 Portrait Prize.
Sunday 1 April, the 4th Queensland Festival of Photography (QFP4) was officially launched at Queensland Centre for Photography in Brisbane.
In addition to the opening of the exhibition South of the Border, the top 50 finalist portraits in the QFP4 Portrait Prize was displayed in the QCP Window galleries. Victoria Garnons-Williams announced the five winners of the prize:
1st Prize Louis Lim
2nd Prize: Simone Darcy
Runner Ups: Charmaine Heyer, Ian English and Mark Lehn
We congratulate the winners! To see all the top 20 finalists visit the QCP website.
Published on April 14, 2012 1:54 pm.
Filed under: EVENTS
REVIEW // DIANE ARBUS
Anamaria Pazmino reviews Diane Arbus: a new retrospective at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
The Diane Arbus exhibition at the Museum Jeu de Paume in Paris just closed last month. The exhibition ran from the 18th October 2011 to the 5th February 2012, before traveling across Europe: Fotomuseum, Winterthur (3 March – 27 May 2012). Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (22 June – 24 September 2012). Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (26 October 2012 – 13 January 2013). In Paris, the exhibition was a complete success; more than 215 000 visitors came to see the first French retrospective of the American photographer.
What was so amazing about this exhibition to attract more people than Richard Avedon or Claude Cahun’s exhibitions? Let’s try to figure out…
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Published on March 21, 2012 4:42 pm.
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Lyndal Petzke, Hermes Birkin Bag, 2011
INTERVIEW//LYNDAL PETZKE
Sancintya Simpson interviews Lyndal Petzke: QCP Profile of the Month
Lyndal Petzke is an emerging artists based in Brisbane, Australia. She has completed a Bachelor of Photography with Honours (first class) and has exhibited throughout Australia and the USA. Petzke’s digital images ask the viewer to not only question the authenticity of a photograph but the authenticity of consumer culture through digital constructing images from photographs. She’s interested in the cultural value of objects, aiming to highlight the relationship between material and monetary value and questioning globalisation in relation to Western society.
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Published on February 26, 2012 12:29 pm.
Filed under: ARTIST PROFILE, INTERVIEW
Gerwyn Davies 'The Gloves' 2011
INTERVIEW//GERWYN DAVIES
Sancintya Simpson interviews Gerwyn Davies: QCP Profile of the Month
Gerwyn Davies is an emerging photographic artist based in Brisbane. He has completed a Bachelor of Photography with a double major in Artistic Practice and Creative Advertising at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University where he is currently completing his Honours program as well as sessional teaching. Gerwyn has exhibited throughout Australia, the USA and Chile, as well as curated for and produced several public photographic projects in Brisbane. Gerwyn’s work lingers between art and advertising with a shifting focus upon non-traditional photographic processes woven with craft and fashion, the construction of abstract costuming as well as the exploration of the construction and performance of queer masculinities.
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Published on February 5, 2012 10:48 am.
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Sancintya Simpson 'Self II' from 'Syncretism' 2011
INTERVIEW//SANCINTYA SIMPSON
Maurice Ortega interviews Sancintya Simpson: QCP Profile of the Month
Sancintya Simpson is a Queensland artist, currently completing a Bachelor of Photography from the Queensland College of Art. She was the recipient of the 2011 Ipswich Arts Foundation Scholarship, and her exhibition Notions of Difference will be showing at the Ipswich Art Gallery from 22nd December 2011 – 22nd January 2012.
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Published on January 7, 2012 11:58 am.
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Sarah Oxenham, Subterranea, 2011
INTERVIEW//SARAH OXENHAM
Sancintya Simpson interviews Sarah Oxenham: QCP Profile of the Month
Sarah Oxenham is an emerging photographic artist who lives and works in Brisbane. She has a Bachelor of Photography from Queensland College of Art (2011) and was recently awarded the QCP Graduate Award for her series Subterranea. Oxenham’s photographs predominately question the relationship between the body (either absent or present) and space (urban/natural/domestic). She critiques these spaces in order to deconstruct the way we look at physical forms and spaces, primarily the female body versus domestic environments.
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Published on January 1, 2012 10:25 pm.
Filed under: ARTIST PROFILE, INTERVIEW
