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100 AUSTRALIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS: Loud+Luminous-2020
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LOUD & LUMINOUS – 100 Australian Women Photographers
The backstory from the L&L Founders, Hilary Wardhaugh & Melissa Anderson
The Loud & Luminous mission is to recognise and celebrate the contribution of contemporary women in the photographic arts in Australia. We believe this project is unique and important in recognising the extensive cultural contribution women photographic artists and photographers have made in this country.
This project is designed to empower the girls and women of today and tomorrow to chase in their dreams. This will always be a timely project and one that hopes will help educate and inspire many women of all ages.
The 2020 theme of ‘EQUALITY’ echoes the United Nations sustainable development goals of ‘gender equality’, and we very much look forward to seeing work that reflects that goal and our theme.
Late in 2019 a call went out to female photographers of any age throughout Australia to submit an image for consideration to be selected for the 3rd LOUD & LUMINOUS exhibition at Sydney’s CONTACT SHEET GALLERY and book. The photographers whose images were successful were:
Loud & Luminous selected photographers 2020
Due to COVID-19 the exhibition at Contact Sheet Gallery has been postponed. However over the next 3 months they will post works on the gallery’s online blog. ‘CLICK’ HERE!
Once again we were excited that images by both Victoria and Ruby were successful…
VICTORIA COOPER
Victoria Cooper: Portrait…..PHOTO:Doug Spowart
Victoria’s Artist’s Statement: All things have significance
All things have significance … sentient or not … organic or inorganic… a rich environment of diversity, differentiation and divergence.
The inspiration, like a ray of light through dark clouds, to create this image arises from the women that have, at great personal cost through leadership in research, writing and sheer passion, fought discrimination, voicelessness and political power structures to make a difference in the ongoing quest to create a sustainable and healthy planet. Among these women are: American Rachel Carson, Australian Mary E. White and Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg.
All things have significance ….. PHOTO: Victoria Cooper
RUBY SPOWART
Ruby Spowart …. Photographer unkown
Ruby’s Artist’s Statement …. EQUALITY: Beauty in Aging
Some may say that only in youth there is beauty – as I witness in the unfolding of a fresh new orchid flower. But as I watched the flower each day, its beautiful strong colourful presence began to loose its vigour and the colours began to slowly fade. In the last stages of its life it turned a deep reddish tan almost gold.
Its youthful form no longer evident but now wrinkled and withered it has a different kind of elegance – an equality of beauty…
Ruby’s EQUALITY: Beauty in Aging
Hilary Wardhaugh & Melissa Anderson wish to acknowledge.
Hilary Wardhough + Melissa Anderson
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In 2018 our wonderfully supportive sponsors included: Fujifilm Australia, Kayell Australia, Momento Pro, Victorian Women’s Trust, Creative Women’s Circle and Damian Caniglia Photography and Video. In 2019 we again secured Fujifilm Australia, Kayell Australia, Momento Pro, and Damian Caniglia Photography/Video. We also added Print2Metal and Amanda Summons (book designer) as sponsors.
In 2020 we added PPIB Photographers Insurance as a new sponsor. We were also very fortunate to have Paul McDonald at CONTACT SHEET Gallery as our Exhibition partner, too.
The 2019 and 2020 we held International Women’s Day Symposia in Canberra that were both sold out and received extremely well. We are also proud to say that the 2018 and 2019 Loud & Luminous books have been accepted into the National Library of Australia’s collection.
In 2020 we also saw the results of the stipend raised by the IWD 2019 ticket sales in a group exhibition with Suellen Cook, Tamara Whyte, Helga Salwe, Tricia King and Elise Searson at Photoaccess in Canberra.
The 2020 L&L book
BUY A COPY OF THE 2020 L&L book HERE
(Order before 30 June 2020)
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Both Victoria and Ruby have been selected in earlier LOUD & LUMINOUS exhibitions
Victoria Cooper (left) ………………………………………………………………………………Ruby Spowart (right)
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IN 2019 – ‘Click’ link to see the post
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Victoria Cooper L&L entry 2018
In 2018 – ‘Click’ link to see the post
Looking forward to the next LOUD & LUMINOUS exhibition in 2021 …
HEAD-ON Exhibition in SYDNEY to include Victoria COOPER + Ruby SPOWART
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I’m excited to announce that the two women in my life VICTORIA Cooper and my mother RUBY Spowart have both been selected as one of the LOUD and LUMINOUS curated 100 AUSTRALIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS exhibition to be shown at the 2019 HEAD-ON PHOTO FESTIVAL. It is an amazing and powerful exhibition of contemporary photography brought together by the dynamic duo Hilary Wardhaugh and Melissa Anderson.
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Here’s the story…
ABOUT LOUD & LUMINOUS – from the web page
The Loud and Luminous mission is to recognise and celebrate the contribution of contemporary women in the photographic arts in Australia. We believe this project is unique and important in identifying the extensive cultural contribution women photo-based artists and photographers have made in this country. This project is designed to empower the girls and women of today and tomorrow to chase in their dreams. This is a timely project and one that hopes will help educate and inspire many women of all ages.
Vicky’s photograph is based on an important Tasmanian issue…
Listening …
VICKY’s ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My ancestors are European…. but I am removed by generations from these origins and have always sought to understand my place in this altered land. Over recent years I have spent time in Tasmania. I have come to know of Aboriginal stories that tell of women that lived and survived through the colonial invasion of their land and the resulting massive change to their lives and the future of their culture. I found Putalina, in Palawa kani, a place for reflection on the story telling that has highlighted the strength and power of past Aboriginal women including Truganini and Fanny Cochrane Smith.
Ruby’s work related to where she now lives and a reflection on her mother’s amateur painting…
My mother painted floral arrangements
RUBY’s ARTISTS STATEMENT:
My mother painted floral arrangements.
Before getting married and having children on a farm in central Victoria in the early 1900s my mother painted in oils. I never saw her paint – having children and the hard life on the farm meant that there was no time for art. Her paintings, mainly of floral subjects, however lived on and now are cherished by the family generations that followed.
If there is an art gene then my mother passed it to me. In my life I have practiced many art mediums from enamelling to china painting and ceramics as well as photography. Despite having three children and working with my husband in a family business I persisted with my art making. It has rewarded me and enriched my life.
Now in my 90s I photograph with my iPhone and these flower photographs come from the gardens that my neighbours and I nurture. In this work I feel that I am making the flower ‘paintings’ that my mother was never able to…
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