Landmark exhibition challenges Tasmania’s ‘natural’ image

A new exhibition is set to challenge the ‘tourist brochure’ imagery of some Tasmanian artists and photographers. Entropy I is a collection of 20 dazzling colour images from Tasmanian Photographer Isla MacGregor who’s had a 30 year fascination with the ‘conflicted zones’ of Tasmania’s West Coast. Ms MacGregor says the uncontrolled mining of our past has left a weird and ravaged landscape and these images are beautiful and perverse at the same time.

“I’ve spent decades with my camera investigating, then depicting the legacy of mining and its impact on our waterways. The results are unique, rarely understood & seldom seen, until now.”

The breathtaking photographs are testament to the hardships faced by former West Coast mining communities which lived in one of the harshest environments in Australia with acid mine drainage and toxic metal leaching. The results are compelling viewing. Ms MacGregor contends that the exhibition stands as a counterpoint to the dominant ‘product’ genre of much Tasmanian wilderness photography.

Speaking at the Opening of the Exhibition will be Dr. Gavin Mudd, Chair of the Mineral Policy Institute.

Entropy I Opens : Wednesday 18th of March 2015 (exhibition runs until Sun. 29th).
Venue : The Hawker Centre, All Saints Church, Macquarie St., South Hobart.
Time : 6pm Opening (Daily opening hours 12-5pm).
Isla MacGregor