CMAG (Exhibition 10)

It's the future... well holograms didn't quite make their way into our daily lives in this brave new world, but they have found a home in gallery 1 at CMAG. I'm not sure exactly what David Warren was trying to say with his works but I think it had something to do with technology dehumanising communication. I enjoyed the main piece with a running SMS style conversation accompanied by holograms.... only it was let down by a poor quality hang.

Blacksoil Country

To me, what tied the story together was the Mother. Ever loyal and unquestioning. She is also what holds the family together. I have represented the Mother by using washing on a clothes line and overlaid the images onto 3 pictures that represent different parts of the story.

Showcase gallery ACMP (Exhibition 9)

ACMP, hmmmm..... For the most part i'm not really into advertising style photography,
The exhibition seemed a bit of an ego stroking exercise to me but there were some brilliant portraits on show as well as the standard advertising filler. I particularly liked Monalbetti and Cambells portrait of Geoffrey Rush and the portrait of Dr Fred Hollows. The rest of the show to me just looked like a demonstration of what photoshop is capable of. However my opinion of the show doesn't reflect the talent of all of the photographers, I'm just not sure I'd want to seem them on the gallery wall instead of the glossy magazine that they came out of.

Picture paradise (Exhibition 8)

Vast, big, extensive.
How to put 100 years of photography in Asia Pacific region into one show..... I wouldn't know where to start and it appears the curator didn't either, The show seemed to be a mish mash of context and styles, it was almost like the just hung the pictures in date order or as they came out of the packing crates. other than the time line not much held the direction of the show together.
Also it has a touch of the colonialist to it, a retrospect through eyes that no longer exist...... Now that that's said, The photos themselves were amazing. The different photographic tectonics used fascinated me, I was looking a print (Albumen) that was over 100a years old and the amount of detail and the sharpness blew me away, compared with many of its contemporaries the Albumen prints were such high quality. My pick of the show would either be the huge panorama of Sydney or the seemingly less significant "Dawn Patrol" by Towner H. Phillips C1941.
Overall and amazing collection of photographs even if I had to put on my Rule Britannia glasses.

Radio by Rancid concept 3

Here it is, here I am, turn it up, F!@#in' loud.

Radio by Rancid concept 2

Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio, when I've got the music I've got a place I can go.

Radio by Rancid concept 1

Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio, when I've got the music, I've got a place to go.