INVITE: The Maud Street Photo Gallery Under the Southern Sun exhibition
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September 23, 2019 11:08 pm
INVITE: The Maud Street Photo Gallery Under the Southern Sun exhibition
For over a year we have been coordinating with Gail Neumann the Facebook group THE CYANOTYPE IN AUSTRALIA. In June of this year we circulated through our networks an Invitation for Australian cyanotypers to submit work for a travelling exhibition to be shown in Brisbane, Australia and then Texas, USA to link with World Cyanotype Day celebrations on September 28, 2019. This work will be first shown at The Maud Street Photo Gallery, Brisbane in August and will then travel to the USA to be part of two international exhibitions, one at the A Smith Gallery, Texas in September, and then at PhotoNola, New Orleans in December.
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The exhibition theme Land/Sea/Sky with the exhibition abstract being: Most ancient peoples had no word for the color blue. They could not explain the sky nor the ocean. Poetry and love letters suffered. Once “blue” entered the world the earth rattled and chimed, sending forth “turquoise” and “sapphire.” The Navajo and the Jewelers rejoiced. Poets wept. Picasso danced and Policemen beamed. Mary smiled.
It was hoped that everyone in the world making cyanotypes that could be connected with was invited to create the cyanotypes on white cloth, each 12×12 inches (30×30cm) and that they will be strung together, the flags symbolize the beautiful planet we all inhabit.
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Install day at the A Smith Gallery 24 September
The installation at The Maud Street Photo Gallery PHOTOs: Gail Neumann
A catalogue about the Under the southern sun project featuring each submission, artist’s statements and exhibition documents has been collated, the cyanotypes copied and designed by Doug Spowart. The catalogue forward states:
The Cyanotype in Australia is a photographic medium that continues to be enthusiastically utilised by a growing group of creative practitioners ranging from analogue photographers to fine art printmakers.
While the process and the chemical formulas may be the same the resulting images vary depending on the subject chosen and the creative input of the cyanotypist. This is proven by this body of work and the plethora of potential outcomes presented. And sometimes, as with the vagaries of the process, many results may be a surprise to the author at the time the image is washed-out. Such is the nature and the promise of things hand-made.
We are excited to contribute this collection of cyanotype flags to the 2019 World Cyanotype Day Celebrations at the A Smith Gallery in Texas and PhotoNola in New Orleans in the U.S.A.
The catalogue
A fee of $40 was charged to all participants
This project, by The Cyanotype in Australia team, was curated by Gail Neumann, Victoria Cooper + Doug Spowart with assistance from David Symons.
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Posted by Cooper+Spowart
Categories: Cyanotypes, Exhibitions, Speaking on Photography
Tags: A Smaith Gallery, Ann Vardanega, Anne McCallum, Australian cyanotypew, Bindy Welsh, Chris Byrnes, Danielle Minett, David Symons, Dawne Fahey, Doug Spowart, Emma Gardner, Gael Erica Phillips, Gail Neumann, Gail Stiffe, Irena Prikryl, Jane Anderson, Janis House, John Ansell, Kay Watanabe, Kaye Strange, Keiko Goto, LeAnne Vincent, Linda Spowart, Lynda Love, Lynette Zeeng, Mark Lourensz, Mel Brackstone, Michelle Vine, Mollie Bosworth, Natasha Ward, Penny Ryan, PhotoNola, Renata Buziak, Robyn Campbell, Silvi Glattauer, Steve Lovegrove, Sue Clisby, The cyanotype in Australia, Trevor Foon, Victoria Cooper, Wendy Currie, World Cyanotype Day, World Cyanotype Day 2019
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