Get moving and check out - Cold Light: Photographic series
Exhibition Title
Cold Light: Photographic series
Artist’s name
Tara Gilbee
Dates and Times
15 September to 24 October 2010
10am-5pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Venue
Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, 121 View Street, Bendigo Vic 3550
Entry fee and booking details (if any)
n/a
Best train or tram stop
Bendigo train station is a 20 minute walk down View Street. The gallery is opposite Bendigo Art Gallery and The Bendigo Capital Theatre.
Tell us about yourself
I am a visual artist who has been practising for 14 years since graduating from VCA. I have curated, collaborated and exhibited nationally and internationally. My work is mainly installation or photography.
What will people see when they come to your show?
‘Cold Light’ is a series of photographic images that utilise the refractive qualities of light, manipulated through lens and mirrors, to distort and transform the materials at hand.
The shadowy imprints explore a psychological landscape. Traversing the beauty of dark looming shapes while seeping into watery fields of the unconscious. Dream like visual fields mesmerize and draw the viewer into a liminal field of possibilities.
How long have you been working on this show? And what’s been involved?
I have been working on the theme for over a year. It has been an intimate act of pushing the digital camera to capture essential elements of light and magnification. The works are scaled up for exhibition but started as small vestiges of ideas, internal landscapes that explored psychological ground.
Where did you draw your inspiration from for this show?
Maholy Nagy’s photography has been an inspiration, as has Pat Brassington’s work, thoughmy work does not represent anything of their work. The exploration of photography as a medium as well as a projection of internalised language are two thing that I have invested in this body of work.
In 10 words or less why should people get moving and check out your work?
‘Lose yourself in this field of imaginary and evocative imagery’.
It’s Spring and the country is flush with a heady sense of nature, the trip is easy by train and the Gallery is a lovely space to explore art works.
What was your biggest challenge along the way?
Financing the production of the work.
Where will we see you next or what are you next working on?
I hope to tour this exhibition nationally and I will be working towards some Melbourne and Interstate venues for next year.
I am thinking of a portrait type series next ….lets just see…
