Last Days

My exhibition finishes up this Sunday 15th May. Open 10-5 every day until then. I will be sitting the gallery most of the weekend - come say hello!

I hope you choke

I have an exhibition of new photographs opening this week, at C3 Contemporary Art Space. 

“The farm, to me a playland, was to those who lived on it an onerous dead-end. Everything I observed as a marvel, was a back breaking chore to those who had to perform it everyday”

Peter Conrad ‘Down Home, Revisiting Tasmania’

'I hope you choke' is a photographic documentary of Tasmanian roadside produce stands and farm gate landscapes. It is a collection of photographs loaded with contradictions. A romanticised social commentary of a dying concept, despite the growing popularity and need for self sustainable living.

These images are faithful and Australian. Even more so these scenes are unique to Tasmania. An offshore island of an offshore continent, regularly omitted from maps of Australia – a lonely and savagely beautiful place, severed from the main land by a rising sea level over 10,000 years ago. Such isolation produces an ache of self doubt, a suspicion of solipsism which has the tendency to evoke an air of unease and discontent.

C3 Contemporary Art Space
27 April - 15 May 2011

Opens Wednesday 27 April, 6 - 8pm
Gallery 1, Space A

There are shows opening in the 5 other galleries at C3 on Wednesday too, and I'm pretty excited to be exhibiting alongside all of these artists.

Thank you to Threethousand  and Broadsheet Melbourne for giving me a plug this week! For those who like to organise their personal schedule via their Facebook account, an event page has been created here. If you are in Melbourne on Wednesday, by all means come to the opening and have a glass of wine! The grounds and gardens of the Abbotsford Convent which surround the gallery are stunning, and worth a visit.

Two x Two - C3 Opening Wednesday 23 June 2010

Portrait Exhibition

In just a few short weeks a new exhibition will open at C3 Gallery in Abbotsford, Victoria.

Two x Two is a collaborative portraiture project by Melbourne photographers Karl Scullin and myself, Lauren Bamford. Each of us presenting a unique portrayal of the coterie of Melbourne's emergent artistic subculture - with the common theme of 'two'.

I will be exhibiting 34 environmental portraits - in pairs. The similarities and dissimilarities between the paired photographs may allude to the personal relationship between each individual and myself, the photographer.

Karl's series of colour portraits depict two individuals within every frame. They are images taken from 10 years of documenting subjects from very different projects, be it CD covers or family. The strength and interest of these images comes from the dynamic between these characters.

It opens on Wednesday 23rd June, at 6pm, and runs for 3 weeks. If you are in the Melbourne area - please come along! The gardens and buildings at the Convent are truly lovely, and if you have never visited - now could be the time.

My lovely Keith was kind enough to create an event over at Facebook if you are so inclined.