Ian Parry

Gorgeous landscape paintings at James Makin Gallery by Ian Parry. The exhibition does not start until next week but I managed to see it before it was hung. Delicious layering and colour combinations.
Best seen in the gallery rather than inthese images - you can appreciate the texture close up.

Monash Art Gallery

Three interesting exhibitions
1. Li Gang
A fascinating exhibition of Li Gang. He uses experimental photography - largely film based.
He has used hand built cameras - medium format and large format.
They are on show - stuck together with masking tape and black cloth tape.
He bought the lenses in a market in Beijing.
He was a printmaker in a previous life - and the images have a sensitivity that are crafted. Very atmospheric. He also leaves marks on the images - in a printmaker style.

Also a series of digital images snapped while he was walking to work - feet moving, blurred.
And some lomo images. He also has a home made scanner which he uses to manipulate his images.

2. Hijacked
By young Australian and German photographers. This was the exhibition we went to see, but I found the work by Li Gang more interesting.
3. Konrad Winkler
His documentation of Julie Goodwin - artist working through her post natal depression - pretty bleak.

I have a web site

Yes I created it last week when I realised that the Focus11 Show ws opening and I had had cards printed with a web address on them. But no www.
So here it is
http://www.bernadetteboundy.com/

 The end of year show for our second Year Photography class opens on Wednesday. The official drinks and nibbles is on next Friday Nov 5th between 6 and 8pm.

We have been busy printing and framing our work in preparation.

Photography exhibitions

A good thing about being back is the opportunity to catch up with some more contemporary art.
This weekend I saw 2 exhibitions that were closing this weekend.
The first at New North gallery
http://www.newnorth.com.au/index.php?page=group-m
the work of Group M members: Albert Brown, George Bell, Roy McDonald, Harry Youlden and Richard Woldendorp who were active in Melbourne in the 1960s

The second gallery was Heide where the confronting photographs of Carol Jerrums, William Yang, Nan Goldin and Larry Clark were in an exhibition called Behind the Lense: Up Close on Film.

They were documenting their lives, and recording images of their friends - none of them what you would call conventional. All of the photographers who were represented were engaged in portraiture, but in the 1960s and 70s they were a generation apart from the Group M  folk. The latter were still using formal and 'polite' approaches - in the tradition of Cartier Brersson. While Jerrums cited Cartier Bresson as a major influence, her work and the work of  the others in the show would have been more at home on the pages of Rolling Stone than Paris Match.

This is the image used to promote the show - Carol Jerrums.

Back in Melbourne

How wonderful to be home and to see the garden looking wonderful.

In Italy and Malta

Currently I am in Italy (via Malta)
the blog I will be updating is http://sueberntravelog.blogspot.com