Curated Creatives 14/16
02 2016
Having been a commercial photographer for over thirty five years, in three different countries, the opportunity to relocate to Paris, France, opened up a whole new genre of photography for Des Harris. Des found poignance in both origins of the city’s label La Ville Lumière, the city of lights.Both enlightenment in turning his technical craft toward more artistic applications after being constantly surrounded and inspired by visual imagery, and in finding illumination throughout the city at all hours of the night. Photography requires light to define shape, and form and sometimes in the case of his current exhibition “Lumière - The Guiding Lights of Paris”, the light also becomes the subject.
12 2015
This exhibition is part of a larger body of work on festivals which has continued since Sophie Howarth's early career where I worked solely in the music industry, largely at 'Rock' festivals.The creation of my book Peace Love and Brown Rice: A Photographic History of the Big Day Out allowed her to see a reverence that is inspired at audience level. Opening December 10, through til February 12, 2016.
The Eagle as a symbol of transformation, our higher selves that fly, expand in time space. The Celtic Rune Perth is symbolised by the flight of the eagle, soaring flight, free from entanglement lifting oneself above the ordinary acquiring a broader vision.
10 2015
What happens when you mix the philosophy of a luddite with the quest to capture light in it’s many permutations?
What you get? Aside from shear awesomeness, mind boggling mayhem and beautiful accidents you also get… a Ludlite.
We are just that, and on a quest to defy the perfection of digital photography to make room for the joys of shooting on film. A true Ludlite becomes one with their camera, knows all the chinks and creaks in each camera, knows what every noise means and what it will do to their favourite roll of film. Dedicated Ludlites don’t feel the need to keep checking the screen on the back of their cameras after every frame, (largely because there is no screen) and we believe above all else good Ludlites shoot exclusively on film.
The Ludlites come from all kinds of backgrounds, some of use are professional photographers with long, respected careers who shoot digitally and love their plastic medium format cameras as freedom from the rigidity of perfection. Others are graphic designers, architects, film makers, publicists, fathers, mothers and all come together annually to celebrate the joys of the ludlite lifestyle… exhibition style!
05 2015
Julia Charles is a Sydney based photographer. She usually photographs people and places. This series was born out of a desire to humanize the story of those seeking asylum. Originally from Melbourne, she has been working in art and design for over 25 years. She currently teaches at the UNSW Art & Design. In 2013 Julia was awarded 5 Bronze and in 2014 one Bronze in International Loupe Awards and in 2012 she was a Semi-Finalist with 2 Images in the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
04 2015
Matthew Vasilescu’s background of commercial photography, often with not for profit organisations, has enabled him to see the beauty and value in the things we take for granted, things we assume will always be part of out geographical and cultural landscape, his eye and interpretation of each scene in Disappearing Dream opens the narrative for the viewer to recall the history of the house and it’s occupants both past and present. Show Disappearing Dream is instore at Published Art from March 26th to April 26th 2015.
03 2015
“I grew up watching my father draw the landscape. Every weekend he would head somewhere. While he talked about the light, my sister and I would play games. Exploring old abandoned sheds, looking for precious relics or climbing hills looking for our views. Watching him as a child ingrained in my memory a relationship with the landscape that is now impossible to deny. I am constantly drawn back to its dream-like qualities and emotional resonance. It is this subconscious, silent conversation that I find myself always drawn back into time and time again. In a way it is the only place I feel truly relaxed. On my own, in a kind of meditation of sorts, I find myself wandering from place to place looking for images that remind me of old paintings or childhood memories. I look for paintings, historical reflections that echo both the history of the genre and also how I feel about my childhood, fully immersed in the scenery and dreaming in the presence of it”.
01 2015
Sassy says, "Books are making a come-back in my life. Google search just doesn't do everything for me and I predict a rise in books and library research in the next decade. I haven't chosen any books by painters and drawers as I couldn't choose favourites from the span of my divergent attention." Sassy Park is the kind of woman who is bursting to create, and the ideas she bristles with are joyful and exciting from Jewellry to ceramics and beyond.
11 2014
Dean’s works delve into themes of ritual, intimacy and decay set within the contemporary Australian landscape. Her beginnings were in the ephemeral yet intimate portrayal of her immediate youth documenting her relationships living on the cultural fringe and her transient lifestyle. Later her documentary work would delve deeper into subcultures, social rituals and portraiture which continue to inform on-going themes in her evolving photographic practice.
09 2014
Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy met while studying painting and drawing at art school in Sydney, Australia.
Originally selling hand painted fabrics and jewellery, Dinosaur Designs now sells a large, constantly evolving range of handmade resin and sterling silver jewellery and resin homewares in their seven stores in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and New York and through stockists world-wide.
08 2014
Phillippa Carnemolla is an industrial designer, jeweller and PhD scholar based in Sydney, Australia. Her work is inspired by the geometry of nature.
Her range of fine jewellery is creted using 22k gold, sterling silver, diamonds, topaz and other precious gemstones and reflect the mapping of nature across the plant, animal and mineral domains.
