Preparing new work for the upcoming exhibition ellipse: a project between two points with friend and artist Taryn Raffan, opening next week at GAFFA.
DARKROOM SOCIAL
Richard Hancock, Rachael Ireland, Cameron Longshaw, Koji Makino, Adam North, Jeremias Zylberberg
30 October - 29 November 2015
In conjunction with The Alchemists: Rediscovering Photography in the Age of the Jpeg in the main galleries, the Social Gallery upstairs presents the group show Darkroom Social. This year the ACP began Darkroom Social, a group of like-minded, analogue-inclined photographers that meet once a month in the ACP darkroom to discuss, experiment and inspire. After a year’s work, the group exhibit the fruits of their diverse practice.
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Rachael Ireland untitled (combination print) 2015
Artist Statement:
Begun during a residency at Hill End, this work in progress explores domesticity, industry, human mortality and the endurance of the land in a response to place. Using the darkroom technique of combination printing, these prints conflate still life and landscape imagery into a single photograph. There is a blurring at the thresholds between home and non-home, the personal and the social, past and present. The specifics of time and place dissolve, creating an expanded reality.
Sunday afternoon in the ACP darkroom printing for Darkroom Social group exhibition opening later this month at the Australian Centre for Photography
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Curated by Talia Smith & Liz McCrystal
Featuring: Naomi Riddle, Amanda Williams, Amanda Mason, Zoe Wong, Nichola Palazzi, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, Eliya Cohen, Kate Disher-Quill, Katelynn-Jane Dunn, Lydia Dowman, Noura Gauper, Rachael Ireland and Stephanie Simcox.
A Room of One's own is a contemporary photography exhibition featuring Sydney based female artists whose practices are pushing the boundaries stylistically and conceptually. Themes within the works range from identity, the changing landscape, the female experience and the everyday. What brings the group together - identifying as female, is also essentially what sets them a part from others. It is how these artists have framed their experiences, challenging what it is to be a contemporary female photographer today.
Opening this Saturday 26 September 3pm-5pm at Maitland Regional Art Gallery as part of their Spring Program launch. Details can be found here
SHADOW HOUSES
Rachael Ireland
26 September - 29 November 2015
Shadow Houses explores shifting and multiple perspectives of home and place. Rachael Ireland uses photography to investigate the intangible relationship between places lived and travelled. In constructing her work Ireland reflects upon and critiques how cultural perspectives, social histories and tourism continually define and redefine her experience of place and understanding of home within Australian society.
Rachael Ireland The Never 3 2013-2015