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Richard Green: Wild Places
27th August - 27th September
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Richard Green visits the most remote parts of the Australian outback to capture the country’s majestic, untouched beauty unlike any photographer before. Opens at Byron McMahon Gallery, 27 August 2008.
The Sydney-based photographer’s first solo exhibition in Sydney is a provocative and intensely lyrical collection of landscape images showing the stark beauty of Australia’s most remote areas. Importantly, many of the regions he records have never previously been captured photographically.
Wild Places comprises more than 20 breath-taking Australian panorama landscapes and portraits. Large in content and scale, several of the images are more than two metres long to suitably depict the poetic beauty of the Australian bush in its majestic proportions. From the wide open skies of the Central Deserts to the heat-scorched Top End and the wind-stripped Tasmanian Wilderness, each is a testament to Australia’s natural environment which has stood the test of time.
“Richard Green’s photographs bring Australia’s landscape to life in a fresh celebration of the breathtakingly beautiful environment in which we live. Green’s images are aesthetically overpowering and a very humbling reminder of the pure, raw splendour of nature,” said Gallery Director Sandra Byron.
Born in England and trained as a physicist, Green sold his technology conventions business in the late 1980s to take early retirement. Soon after, he obtained his helicopter pilot’s licence and emigrated to Australia to further his two favourite passions, photography and flying. Thanks to his helicopter, he has been able to photograph the most remote parts of Australia, many of which are not accessible by land even with a four-wheel drive.
For the past 20 years he and his wife, Carolyn, have made regular trips exploring and photographing outback Australia. Surprisingly, this is Green’s first solo exhibition in Sydney. But the photographer says it is only through recent developments in digital technology that he has been able to achieve a level of quality which meets his satisfaction. Using 17 and 21 mega-pixel cameras, his preferred style is to merge multiple high resolution images to create one photograph of astounding depth and detail.
Green’s work is not without its dangers. “We spend a lot of time flying over 'tiger country' and the twin turbine helicopter gives us a good margin of safety. We are well aware that if we have a problem in most of these places there is no help for many hundreds of kilometres, so we need to be prepared for any eventuality. I have extensively modified the helicopter to incorporate full camping facilities including solar ground power, a fridge and deep freeze. I also carry a wide range of emergency equipment including spare parts and tools, and have been authorised by CASA to do all my own repairs on the helicopter. We carry over 40 litres of water and sufficient food to survive for several weeks out bush should we need it".
Fortunately, they have not needed it to-date. The risks he takes are, however, paying off. Having exhibited for the first time in 2007, Green is quickly building a reputation as an emerging and highly sought-after photographic talent. In the next six months, his works will go on display at the National Library in Canberra for the inaugural Vivid photographic festival. Several Richard Green landscapes will also be incorporated as large-scale backdrops into a new permanent display at The Australian Museum this June.
Green is hopeful that the popularity of his images will build environmental awareness. An active conservationist, he is passionate about the politics of climate change and commercialisation. “The potential impact of environmental damage is still not fully appreciated. I’d like to think my images may help convince politicians and the public that the environment’s protection is key to our continued existence on the planet. If significant changes are not made, in years to come my images will remain as a record of the magnificent wilderness that once existed.”
Richard Green’s images are in private collections in Canada, Germany, France, England, Africa and Australia.
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Richard Green: Wild Places 27 August – 27 September 2008
Byron McMahon Gallery, 88 George Street Redfern, Sydney
Open Wednesday – Saturday 11- 5pm, www.byronmcmahongallery.com.au
Media interviews and images
Gaby Wilson| 02 8904 0822 | 0433 972 915
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ABOUT RICHARD GREEN
Born and educated in England, Richard Green graduated from University with a degree in applied physics. He was working as a sales engineer in this field when, in 1967, he recognised that computers were about to take the world by storm. He returned to University at that time to begin research work for a PhD on the then novel concept of interactive computer graphics.
In order to tap into pioneering research in this field, in 1970 he organised a conference on computer graphics. It was the world’s first ever major technical congress and exhibition in this field. The industry response worldwide was phenomenal. Recognising an opportunity when he saw one, Green formed Online Conferences Ltd- a company which specialised in staging major international events in the field of computers and communications.
By the late 1980s the business had grown to one employing over 120 staff, with offices in London, New York and Singapore. Already passionate about helicopters, he signed up at a flying school and had his helicopter licence in three months. He emigrated to Australia in 1988, where he was able to take advantage of the vast wilderness and wide open skies to simultaneously pursue his two passions, helicopter flying and landscape photography.
Today, he and his wife make on average three helicopter trips to the Australian outback a year, each trip usually around five weeks in duration and covering thousands of kilometres. Green regularly visits Central Australia, the Top End, the Gulf Country, the Kimberley and Pilbara regions, and the Tasmanian Wilderness.
Green’s first public exhibition took place at Framed Gallery in Darwin in October 2007. The Australian Museum will incorporate several of his dramatic landscape images into its new permanent ‘Surviving Australia’ exhibit this coming June. He will also exhibit 24 works (eight of which are large-scale panoramas - up to 4 metres in length) at the National Library in Canberra as part of the inaugural Vivid photographic festival in July. He will follow this with his first solo show in Sydney at the Byron McMahon Gallery in August 2008.
MEDIA RELEASE
Byron McMahon Gallery, at 88 George Street, Redfern, will launch its exciting 2008 program of exhibitions at 6pm on Thursday 28th February when it premieres the exhibition Photo Fictions by Australian based artist Neil Bailey.
The artist will be present and media are welcome to attend.
Neil Bailey has a unique style, that draws on his technical expertise developed in the advertising industry, to create mysterious images which teeter between the real and fictitious . Bailey seems to revel in this ambiguity in these large colour photographs which enthrall the viewer with their quirky combination of the familiar and the unrecognizable. There is a narrative style to Bailey’s work however the stories are never fully revealed, with the images at times appearing like film stills or snippets of an unknown story.
While there is an eerie sense of danger in many of the works there is also a feeling of black humour to Bailey’s creations which see characters act out staged dramas or moments.
Bailey was born in the UK in 1969 and completed a BA (Hons) in visual communications. He has been working as a photographer for over a decade and for the last five years has been based in Australia where in addition to producing his personal artworks showcased in this exhibition he has also worked as a commercial photographer for major clients. He has also travelled extensively Auschwitz, India, Lapland, South Africa, Tibet and the USA. His work has been exhibited in London, Melbourne and Sydney and this exhibition is his first at Byron McMahon Gallery.
For further information and press images please contact
Sandra Byron
info@byronmcmahongallery.com.au
tel. 9318 0404
Please note our new Gallery Hours : Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm or by appointment.
The exhibition continues until 29th March and is followed by
Jeff Carter These Two Hands which opens on 3rd April.
OTHER NEWS
Stephen Dupont will give a free talk at the Australian Centre for Photography on
Wednesday 27th February for details please click here
Samantha Everton: Childhood Fears
17 July – 18 August 2007
Diva of the Digital Image, by Steve Meacham
published July 17, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald
Byron McMahon Gallery presents Everton’s third solo exhibition – a theatrical and surrealist display of the unconscious.
“The precision of Everton’s digital manipulation and her control of visual continuity through the Catharsis series is characteristically impeccable.” Australian Art Review, 22 October 2005.
In her new exhibition, Childhood Fears, Everton is primarily concerned with depicting an untouchable reality with elements of surrealism. She puts together images that show quiet, introspective and unconscious moments in daily life. Her creation of an image is an imaginative process in which she aims to give a physical texture to fleeting or unarticulated feelings.
Winner of the 2006 McGregor Prize for Photography, the 2005 Leica Documentary Photographic Award and the 2005 ‘Head On’ portrait prize at Michael Nagy Fine Art, Everton has achieved notable critical acclaim in just a few years. Her work recently featured in the NewYorker Magazine.
In Childhood Fears, the images are both hauntingly beautiful and deeply compelling. Their strength lies not only in their poignancy, but in their ability to communicate deep, profound messages to all that see them.
“It’s where our innermost childhood thoughts, emotions and fears are played out. I wanted to show that dangers of the imagination are just as potent as the fears felt in reality, and the affects are no less significant for a child,” says Samantha Everton. “They are universal, often not rationally understood or easily articulated, but span cultural and social divides, intrinsically connecting all in one common thread.”
Stephen Dupont- Panorama
25th May – 14th July 2007
Opening night Thursday 24th May at 6pm
The exhibition will be opened by Robert Pledge, President of Contact Images Inc.
From the 25th May until the 14th June 2007 Byron McMahon Gallery in George Street, Redfern will premiere Panorama by Australian photographer Stephen Dupont. This exhibition, by the internationally acclaimed award- winning photojournalist and documentary film maker, presents a selection of images from his visual diary of the world spanning six years from 1999 -2005. It is Dupont says the world as I saw it, touched it, smelt it and lived it. Humanity and inhumanity, from the innocence of birth to the horrors and debauchery of war. It is a little piece of history as I chose to capture it. Critic Robert McFarlane has praised Dupont’s works as remarkable for their blend of humanity and composition.
Describing his choice of the panoramic format Dupont explains that as a documentary photographer, I wanted to break away from the traditional 35mm look. Inspired by the cinematic form, its wide-scope and all-encompassing power, I wanted to stretch my photographic canvas.
Dupont specializes in long-term projects on conflict and global social issues. For the last 17 years he has worked in war and disaster zones around the world. including Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, India, Israel, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, and Zaire. His internationally acclaimed reportage work has earned him a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation, first place in World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International, while his documentary Brothers of Kabul recently won him a Walkley Award. He is an official war artist with the Australian War Memorial. In addition to his work in conflict zones Dupont has also produced bodies of published work on subjects as diverse as steam trains in India, wrestlers and barber shops. His works have been acquired for major public institutions both in the United States and Australia.
The show can be previewed online by visiting www.byronmcmahongallery.com.au and selecting exhibitions.
Stephen Dupont is available for media interviews and high resolution files
are available for reproduction please contact the Gallery on (02) 9318 0404
LEWIS MORLEY: PHOTOGRAPHS
12th -29th July, 2006
The exhibition Lewis Morley: Photographs will be on display Sydney's Sandra Byron Gallery from 12th-29th July and coincides with a major retrospective of his work Lewis Morley: 50 Years of Photographs at The Art Gallery of New South Wales which opened on 5th July and runs through until 10th September.
The show at Sandra Byron Gallery complements the retrospective exhibition by focusing on two lesser known aspects of Morley's work, his colour work and his photographs in France. Over 35 colour images, most never exhibited before, highlight Morley's long standing interest and mastery of both the photo documentary style of street photography and of working in colour. Produced in locations around the globe including India, the United States, Sri Lanka and Australia they provide a fascinating insight into Morley's interest outside of the studio environment and stand alongside his exceptional colour portraits of visual artists including Brett Whitely, John Coburn, John Firth-Smith and actors including Barry Humphreys and Nicole Kidman.
While the outstanding selection of his black and white photographs are a passionate testament to Lewis Morley's love affair with Paris which began in his early twenties and has endured over five decades through to today. Morley, whose images like his iconic portrait of Christine Keeler, came to epitomise Britain in the sixties, began visiting Paris while attending Art School in London in 1945. As his interest in painting was eclipsed by photography Morley regularly stayed in Paris working on magazine and commercial assignments for London based clients and photographing people and places. For over half a century Morley has continued to visit Paris and produce wonderful photographs there.
The exhibition also includes the images of Christine Keeler which have become icons of the 2oth century along with Morley's recent wry self portrait where he sits in the Keeler pose with a millstone around his neck. Trained as an artist and self taught as a photographer, Morley is in his 81st year and this exhibition Lewis Morley: Photographs provides an illuminating counterpoint to the extensive exhibition at The Art Gallery of New South Wales which showcases the 50 year span of Morley's career. For more information on the exhibition at The Art Gallery of New South Wales click here.
M E D I A R E L E A S E
The Photography Show, 2006, NYC
Sandra Byron Gallery is proud to be exhibiting at the 2006-02-03 AIPAD Photography Show at the Armory, NYC from 10th-12th February.
Our Booth is #411
For Fair details please click here
Foto Freo
Sandra Byron is delighted to be participating in the FotoFreo Festival in Freemantle to be held in March 2006.
For Fair details please click here
VANILLA & MISFORTUNE
Photographs by Lisa Tomasetti
Opening Saturday 24th September
Exhibition continues until 22nd October
SANDRA BYRON GALLERY
11/2 Danks Street
Waterloo, Sydney
Tel. +61 2 9318 0404
E.info@sandrabyrongallery.com.au
Gallery Hours
Tuesday Saturday 11am 5pm
Acclaimed Melbourne based photographer Lisa Tomasetti's exhibition Vanilla & Misfortune will open at Sandra Byron Gallery at 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, on Saturday 24th September.
A unique and compelling exploration of childhood this breathtakingly beautiful exhibition showcases the personal work of an artist best known for her remarkable career as a Stills Photographer. Lisa Tomasetti completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts, in photography & cinematography at The University of South Australia in 1988. As a Film and Television Stills Photographer for the past eleven years her credits, to name just a few , include Little Fish, Shine, Star Wars Episode Two, The Dish, Dirty Deeds, Bad Boy Bubby, Dead Heart , Looking for Alibrandi and Kath & Kim.
While Tomasetti's film stills, like her iconic image of Geoffrey Rush in Shine, may be familiar it is less widely known that throughout her career Lisa has maintained her commitment to her personal work. Her images are now represented in major private and public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australian, The National Gallery of Australia, Monash Gallery of Art, The Albury Regional Art Centre and The Art Gallery of South Australia. Tomasetti was the recipient of an Australia Council studio residency in Italy and her exhibition First Kiss was shown by Sandra Byron Gallery in 2002 to coincide with the launch by Allen & Unwin of the publication of the same name that Tomasetti coauthored with Nell Schofield.
For further information and to arrange interviews please contact Sandra Byron on Tel. (+61 2) 9318 0404 or email info@sandrabyrongallery.com.au
NICK BRANDT
On This Earth
SYDNEY
29th October 26th November
Sandra Byron Gallery
11/2 Danks Street
Waterloo,
SYDNEY, NSW
t. 02 9318 0404
Gallery Hours :
Tuesday Saturday 11-5
MELBOURNE
5-18th December
Sandra Byron Gallery @
Silvershot Gallery
3/167 FLINDERS LANE,
MELBOURNE, VIC 3000
t 03 9663 4991
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday Saturday 11-6
From 29th October through until 26th November 2005 Sandra Byron Gallery will showcase the work of the internationally acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt in his first Australian exhibition, the exhibition will then tour to Melbourne in December. This exceptional exhibition coincides with the launch by Chronicle Books of Brandt's first monograph entitled On This Earth.
As Alice Sebold explains in the forward The photographs of Nick Brandt are both beautiful and haunting. They come upon you in a flush of abundance that it is almost hard to recover from. . . . You are about to enter a world of the imagination, where all the animals are real, both fragile and full of grace." Nick Brandt's unique imagery goes far beyond the documentary realm of wildlife photography. His intimate portraits of the animals of East Africa transcend the genre of wildlife photography.
As Brandt explains Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of BEING.
I get extremely close to these very wild animals, often within a few feet of them. I don't use telephoto lenses. This is because I want to see as much of the sky and landscape as possible--to see the animals within the context of their environment. That way, the photos become as much about the atmosphere of the place as the animals. And being that close to the animals, I get a real sense of intimate connection to them, to the specific animal in front of me. Sometimes a deliberate feeling that they're almost presenting themselves for a studio portrait.
Nick Brandt has exhibited his photographs in solo shows around the world, including in London, Berlin, Hamburg, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and New York. Born and raised in England, he now lives in Topanga Canyon, California, with his wife and menagerie of adopted animals.
Gallery admission is free. The photographs and signed copies of Nick's book will be available for purchase at the Gallery.
For further information and to arrange interviews please contact Sandra Byron (02) 9318 0404
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