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Curated by Aimee Board featuring work by Damien Shen, Tara Gilbee and Todd Johnson
Traces Unseen features three artists surfacing and inscribing hidden histories of bodies and places. In his series of tintypes, Damien Shen responds to archives documenting his rich heritage of mainland China and the Ngarrindjeri peoples of South Australia. Todd Johnson studies the psychogeography of place, collaborating with Lake Burley Griffin by submerging negatives in its waters. And with her pinhole solagraphic works, Tara Gilbee conducts a forensic tracing of a quarantine site.
Traces Unseen opened on Thursday 21st May at 6pm. Joanna Gilmour, Curator at the National Portrait Gallery alongside exhibition curator Aimee Board and PhotoAccess Director Dr. Kirsten Wehner responded to the works via Facebook opening
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First built in 1861 and active for over 130 years, the Old Castlemaine Gaol has seen men, women and children of all ages pass through its imposing wooden gates. This site is currently utilised as a venue and for historic tours. With its high position above the town, it has the auspicious advantage of 360 views of the town of Castlemaine.
I have chosen the sites Old Guard Towers which are flanked at the back of the goal. The title of this project takes the nature of the site and the nature of the use of these towers as starting point to also explore wider concepts around the viewing platform and the socio political history of this site.
This project is a creative development of photo visual art works encompassing these four guard towers.
Utilising the cameraless processes of camera obscura and pinhole photography, I plan to research and develop an experimental process of converting the towers into a studio for artwork production and audience participation.
The works will draw the existing material of the site into a spectral field that engages light as a means to trace the delicate and hidden aspects of the landscape.
Regional Centre for Culture:
The Regional Centre for Culture program celebrates Victoria as a creative state and shines the light on one geographic region for one year, celebrating local creativity, culture and communities.
The 2018 Regional Centre for Culture region is one of Victoria’s key regional cultural hubs comprising the City of Greater Bendigo, Mount Alexander Shire, Central Goldfields Shire and Hepburn Shire.
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Further details about the 2018 Regional Centre for Culture program can be found here http://rcc2018.com/
Further information about The Old Castlemaine Goal can be found here https://www.oldcastlemainegaol.com.au/
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Every week I travel down to Melbourne to work and study at Victoria College of the Arts. An exciting opportunity to enter into and intensive phase of exploration and growth. Demanding as the travel is the rich source of information and dialogue that I am involved in make the trips so worthwhile and the shifting landscape exciting.
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Albert Namatjira loved the songs and dances of the 1940’s and 50’s but was never able to participate in the white communities’ social events. This performance honours the songs he loved and prepares a space in which he is invited to dance with us.
Friday 24 March 2017 9pm (1hr)
The Burke and Wills Mechanics Institute
Corner of Castlemaine and Camp St, Fryerstown, VIC 3451
Background:
Dr Domenico de Clario is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and musician. He was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 and migrated to Australia in 1956. He has taught and held head faculty positions at a number of key arts universities. From 2009 until 2012 he was Director of Adelaide’s Australian Experimental Art Foundation. Since 1966 de Clario has presented more than 300 solo exhibitions, installations and performances and received numerous grants and residencies, including the Australia Council Fellowship. He is currently chair of arts mildura board and co-ordinator of museum of innocence mildura.
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My poster work ‘Common Criminal’ featured as part of the photographic lab at Escuela Activa de Fotografía de Cuernavaca. Mexico (curators Daniel Armstrong and Ernesto Rios)The post Fragmentos: Arte Contemporáneo Australiano – 2015 first appeared on Tara Gilbee.
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