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GROUP SHOW / The Print Exposed

Michaels Alpha Gallery

1st Floor Michaels Camera Store

Cnr Elizabeth & Lonsdale Sts Melbourne

Showcasing the unique exhibitions at the Trentham Fringe

Open during normal trading hours (03) 9672 2224

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GENE BAGDONAS, STEVE TESTER, ELLIE YOUNG / The Print Exposed at Studio 500

Studio 500

500 Trentham Kyneton Rd, Tylden South

Wednesday to Sunday 11am – 4.30pm

Free entry

‘The Print Exposed at Studio 500’ pulls together a unique collection of work.

Gene Bagdonas’s Ziatypes, Steve Tester's palladium prints, with salt prints, albumen and gum bichromate prints from Ellie Young, all draw from the art, craft and science of photography.  These three photographers offer images that are evocative yet quiet and wistful.  This exhibition offers a timeless quality, reflecting the natural world though the exploration of texture, shape and design. 

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TIM RUDMAN [UK]/ Tree Works

‘Tree Works’ is an evolving long running theme which changes and takes new directions over time. The theme embraces the characters of trees, their environments, seasons and changing appearance in different weather conditions and at different times of day and night. With these changes the same tree can look majestic and statuesque or vulnerable and damaged.The prints are all traditionally wet processed silver gelatin prints and silver gelatin Lith prints, hand crafted in the darkroom to the highest archival standards and toned with combinations of sepia, selenium and gold toners for increased archival protection and aesthetic purposes.

www.timrudman.com

LYNETTE ZEENG & SILVI GLATTAUER / Transfer of Meaning                                                                           Red Beard Bakery                                                                                                                                                     38A High Street, Trentham               Open Tuesday to Sunday 8am – 4pm                                                                                                                   Free entry

Lynette and Silvi have exhibited in several exhibitions specifically with their work using alternative photographic   processes. Silvi works with the contemporary Photogravure technique to depict a range of iconic and traditional subject matter. This process combines a unique blend of digital with hands on traditional printmaking. The Photogravure encourages textures and tones through the intrinsic tactile qualities of the handcrafted print. Lynette works with Polaroid transfers, a unique media that gives the image a soft painterly quality with subtle colour and unique texture.  With the demise of Polaroid, these will be the “precious last” images.

KARENA GOLDFINCH / Oil paint on paper

Trentham Railway Station

Victoria Street, Trentham

Open Wednesday to Friday 11am – 4.30pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am – 4.30pm

Free entry

While undertaking research into the Gumoil process, it became apparent to Karena that the process of making her images had not only become an academic pursuit but also a medium for self-expression.  This series of images were produced during that time and have led her to continue to examine further why the eye can be drawn to a particular subject and not another.  There are symbols everywhere in life and perhaps when we are focusing on other matters the unconscious allows itself to be revealed.

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ROBERT F. GREEN [USA] / Reflections 

‘The variety of pigments and monochrome colour are reflected in the images. I have tried with each image to capture a moment in time reflecting my feelings ‘ Dr. Robert Green printed for Polaroid, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe and many other celebrity photographers. From 1971 Dr Green lead a worldwide revival of the carbon pigment process. These archival permanent prints preserve a richness and depth while weaving a tapestry of colour. He has published a "How to" book on both monochrome and Color carbon.

TRENTHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL  / What We Love About Trentham                                                              Various locations in Trentham                                                                                                                

Free

Trentham Primary School has enthusiastically contributed to the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Trentham Fringe  hosts the alternative photographic processes exhibitions and workshops.  The students have played an important role in interpreting 'What we love about Trentham' in cyanotype printing.  They drew on acetate and under the guidance of Wendy Currie and Karena Goldfinch spent a fun day printing their acetate images in the sun using the cyanotype process.  Images are displayed in the Trentham Pharmacy and shops windows in Trentham village during the month of the BIFB. Local framer Studio 40 sponsored the matting of the images

note: Kyneton exhibitions are not part of the ‘Trentham Alternative  Process Fringe’ but are listed here because of their proximity to Trentham.

MARGARET CHANDRA /Atlas Mountains – Heart Of Morocco

Gallery 40

40 Mollison Street, Kyneton

Open 11 - 4  Tues to Sun until 16/9 then

Thurs - Sun

Free entry

 

Margaret Chandra opened GALLERY 40 in 2007. ‘Atlas Mountains’ is the first viewing of her Moroccan 2008 photographs - and her 5th exhibition. Margaret loved traveling the ancient Atlas Mountains. The varied landscape textures reflected rock formations laid bare by centuries of human occupation - and the elements! Abandoned brick houses merged with the soil: fertile oases contrasted with vivid purple and orange mountains – and the desert! Vast landscapes challenged Margaret’s photographic experience - and her preferences for more detailed images. Photos are mainly A2 sized landscapes – with slideshow! http://galleryinkyneton.blogspot.com/

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GROUP SHOW / Spirit of Kyneton Prize

The Spirit of Kyneton Photography Prize for 2009 is run as part of the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival ‘Heart of Gold’

which runs from Thursday September 3rd to Sunday September 13th.

www.kynetondaffodilarts.org.au

TONY PERI / Rockin ‘n’ Rythym

Noahs Inn

43 Trentham Road, Tylden

Open Monday & Thursday 9am – 9pm, Friday & Saturday 9am - late, other days 9am – 4.30pm

Free entry

‘Rockin ‘n’ Rhythm’ is a solo exhibition of B&W street-style photography using vintage cameras and lenses. It’s a celebration of 1950s fashion, styles and personalities, with western-swing bands and rockabilly dancers from Sydney’s annual ‘Fifties Fair’. The retro style is matched by the retro photography of Tony Peri whose equipment included a quarter-plate camera from the 1920s to capture the excitement. In a further blending of the present with the past, these photographs are hand-made with oil-pigment inks, using the historic printing techniques of the Bromoil and Oleobrom process, which date from c.1907.

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KARL KOENIG[USA] / Time and Tide Wait for no Man

Karl Koenig has visited Australia three times.  The gum oils show his exceptionally broad range of interests. Invariably, however, each returns the viewer to Koenig’s preoccupation with the fundamental themes of growth, erosion and decay, the themes of life itself.The print maker has been drawn to Gumoil because of the exceptional power of this technique to preserve or even to create emotional states.  Although each begins as a relatively simple photograph the artist transforms each one by enhancing its tonality, colors, and perspective.

www.gumoil.com 

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ANNETTE WILLIS / Reimagined Topographies

                                                                                         ‘Reimagined Topographies’ is a series of silver gelatin photographs that seeks to open up new vistas within the boundaries of the still-quarantined landscape that the Quarantine Station at North Head in Sydney represents. The site was not documented in a traditional way but interpreted within its perspective in the landscape using only available light. A gothic history of Australia hidden in aspects of the buildings, abandoned artefacts, inscriptions, gravestones and natural land formations is revealed. In 2007 Annette Willis was given unlimited access to the 33hectare site. In 2008 the Station re-opened after total refurbishment as a luxury hotel.

www.annettewillis.com

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JILL LACINA / Fondness

‘Fondness’is a delicate, and sometimes whimsical, collection of photogenic drawings, or photograms.  Inspired by the work of Anna Atkins and using only the outdoor Australian sun to print, Sydney-based artist Jill Lacina exposes the intimate landscapes of her Australia through her photograms of local flora.  ‘Fondness’ features ten original hand-crafted photograms from Lacina based on the 19th century Cyanotype, Vandyke and Blue Vandyke printing processes.

www.venusphotography.com.au

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MIKE WARE [UK]/ Iron & Icon

Since the first days of photography there have been alternatives to silver for print-making. In 1842 Sir John Herschel discovered that light-sensitive salts of iron could be used to make prints in the pigment Prussian blue (cyanotype), or the precious metals: gold (chrysotype), silver (argentotype), and mercury (celaenotype). In 1873 William Willis extended this list to platinotype and in 1916 to palladiotype. These iron-based printing methods are known collectively as siderotypes, from the Greek for iron: sideros. Fine paper is hand-coated with the chemicals and exposed to an ultra-violet lamp in contact with a large negative. Print colour may be chosen to suit the artist’s expressive intention for the image. These examples have been selected from various sets of Mike Ware’s work to illustrate the range and characteristics of his updated siderotype processes.

www.mikeware.co.uk

MAIJA MCDOUGAL FRPS[UK]/ Searching

The Pig + Whistle

Cnr James Lane &Pearsons Road, Trentham East

Open Daily 11am - late

Free entry

Bromoils and Bromoil Transfers are unique prints. Both techniques, practiced extensively during the late 19th and early 20th century, offer unlimited scope for artistic manipulation of the image.   Silver particles in a black and white photograph are replaced with oil-based printing inks creating a bromoil, in a Bromoil Transfer ink is transferred from the Bromoil print onto a new support using a printing press.    Maija McDougal was born in Latvia and settled to live in UK in 1947 working as a freelance musician embracing chamber music and solo work. She gained Royal Photographic Society Fellowship distinction in 1997 and is well respected internationally for her work in this process.

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HANS NOHLBERG[Sweden] / Hans and Chia

During the years that Hans Nohlberg  and ChiaN-Löfqvist  have been working with alternative photography they have participated in approximately eighty exhibitions (mostly in Europe but also in USA); about twenty have been solo exhibitions. They started with three-colour carbon in 1985. At that time used the Hanfstaengl material but after some years started to create their own tissues modernizing the process to suite their conditions. Hans & Chai in the first years worked in their apartment using the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom areas but since 1998 work from atelier just across the street.

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WENDY CURRIE AND TRISH SIMPSON /The Print Exposed at the Pig and Whistle Hotel

Wendy Currie’s ‘Water and Stone’collection of spectacular images of ice are a wonderful contrast to Trish Simpson’s intimate vision of ‘Every Day Things’in this joint exhibition. Both use cyanotype’s Prussian blue to create dramatic images at different levels. The crafted nature of Trish Simpson’s images is seen best in her Polaroid emulsion transfers, displaying an instinctive feminine innocence retained from childhood. She observes the beauty of the mundane and the ordinary, then, through her skilled and talented perspective she transforms the ordinary into the extra-ordinary. Wendy’s use of Vandyke brown process brings an earthy quality to the French stone cottages transporting us to another era.