As a part of the Australian Heritage Festival @jtoohey929 and I have an exhibition on at UWA’s Cullity Gallery (Clifton St, Nedlands)
“Terra / Kalgoorlie” is on weekdays until May 8. The only weekend date is Saturday May 9th from 11am. John and I will be doing artist talks and Q&A at 2:30 that day.
‘Terra’, features panoramic scenes created with a half frame film camera accompanied by text panels based on news stories from the West Australian interior from around 1910 to 1950. The images are from standard single shot panoramas, bringing time into play through sequences of images which, though continuous, involve brief but discrete moments of time.
‘Kalgoorlie’ is a modest survey of Kalgoorlie’s built form. The images were made over the course of a single cloudy day in the immediate post Covid period. They present an unusually quiet and detailed perspective of the goldfields hub.
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TERRA/KALGOORLIE
Exhibition by John Toohey and Rob Frith
23 April - 8 May
Weekdays 10am - 4pm
Cullity Gallery Bay 2 and 3
UWA School of Design
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Additional Weekend Opening:
Saturday 9 May, 10am - 4.30pm
Artist Talk: Saturday 9 May, 2pm
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Ever since European settlement, Western Australia’s interior has been a contentious site, an obdurate landscape either heroically conquered or violently destroyed. Behind these positions lie a series of statements that define their advocates rather than the arguments. One of the most insidious is the notion that the character of the early colonists defined our own today, we are who we are because of them. Bearing in mind that very few of us have any continuous link back to those generations, even when we do our own family histories are conditioned by disparate elements; class, ethnicity, gender, so many that often enough the only common bond is period or territory.
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Or as John Toohey thinks of it in his panoramas, space and time. Panoramic images were always intended as conceptions of space. By constructing his from half-frame film cameras, he brings in concepts of time as well. Each frame of the overall image belongs to a period of time, different to those on either side of it.
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Rob Frith’s images of Kalgoorlie are more recognizable, but they also represent a rupture. For how many of us do these aspects of ornate, Victorian extravagance recall traditions in our own cultural viewpoints? In that sense they also represent aspects of colonization often hidden in debates.
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The exhibition is free and open to the public.
*Closed on Monday 27 April Public Holiday.
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Images: (Top) Rob Frith, Kalgoorlie. / (Bottom) John Toohey, Parker Point Road.
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More from the Freo Traffic Bridge replacement; it has been fascinating to watch. I’ve particularly enjoyed watching the effect of deck and tower lighting on the cranes in the evenings and have made a couple of visits to capture this on a variety of film cameras. This shot is from a roll put through a c. 1955 Russian Moskva 5, an adaptation of the Zeiss Super Ikonta C. The Moskva was designed to shoot either 6x9 or 6x6 formats on 120 film, the latter with a mask. Leaving the 6x6 mask out but advancing the film the shorter distance required for that format results in overlapping 6x9 frames - partial multiple exposures that I get unreasonably excited about.
#freo #fremantle #film #blackandwhite #BW
The Fremantle Traffic Bridge replacement construction has been fascinating to watch. It’s rare to be able to get close to these sorts of projects, but there are some very good proximite vantage points. I’ve particularly enjoyed watching the light on the cranes from the deck level and towers in the evenings and have made a couple of visits to capture this on a variety of film cameras.
#freo #fremantle #film #blackandwhite #B&W
The sun sets on the 21st year of @sculpturebythesea at Cottesloe Beach. So great to have this fabulous event back after a year’s hiatus in 2025.
1. @gregjohnssculpture - Seaing the Land -Feeling the Land (Shedding Figure)
2. @modnprimitive - The Ghost of Van Eileen
3. Richard Hammer - Did You Ever See a Lassie
#sxs #sculpture #sculpturebythesea #cottesloebeach #sunset
Angles plus anglers.
It’s the last day of @sculpturebythesea Cottesloe
Kaoru Matsumoto (Japan) Cycle-90° ‘Wind of the Sea’ + fisherfolk
#sxs #sculpture #sculpturebythesea #cottesloebeach
Yuko Takahashi’s sculpture Serenity at Cottesloe Beach for this year’s Sculpture by the Sea.
#sculpturebythesea #sculpturebytheseacottesloe #cottmain #sunset #sculpture publicart 6011 cottesloe iwanttoridemybicycle bicyclelove
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