NEWS

Stormy Weather

The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia

Federation Square

20 March - 29 August 2010
Gallery 11, Level 2
Free entry

The work of the contemporary Australian photographers highlighted in this exhibition comes from a profound engagement with the lived landscape around them.  The quiet intensity of their work comes from their close and sustained relationship to particular environments.  These photographers may use that lived observation to reveal the layers of history in a landscape; to provoke ecological concerns; as the place for site specific performances; or to use the specific poetics of light to reveal the beauty of a place.  However for all of them, the real world is the starting point for images of particularity.

Photographers include Rosemary Laing; Harry Nankin; David Stephenson; Richard Woldendorp; Nici Cumpston, Anne Ferran and Jill Orr.