Moonah Arts Centre: Two exciting exhibitions open on May 4

Image: David Martin, Lesson from the Book of Days – 31 January 2017, 2017, photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

LIGHT RECORDING

Light Recording is one of two exciting exhibitions opening at Moonah Arts Centre at 6pm on Thursday 4 May.

The photographic works in this exhibition have been made without the use of a camera or even a light-tight enclosure. David Martin creates his powerful images by exposing traditional materials like film and paper to the sun and sky in the open air.

In Light Recording, David Martin explores alternative modes of seeing and understanding the world through photographs. Analysing traditional darkroom and camera processes, he examines their components and explores methods of creating alternate types of authentic photographic vision.

Where conventional photography would divide time into fractions of seconds, these photographs are made over extended periods of time, ranging from three minutes to entire days.

David Martin’s work references the early photographic experiments of photography inventor, Henry Fox Talbot. “These early photographs of Talbot’s accurately represent something of the thing depicted, yet are substantially different to looking at the thing itself” says Martin. “For me, these early photographs open up an alternative path – one that ‘mainstream’ photography could have taken”.

Experimenting with the physical processes used to make photographs, Martin explores how the properties of light can be used to record other ways of ‘seeing’ the world.

Light Recording is open at Moonah Arts Centre from 5 May – 27 May.

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION:
• Opening 6pm Thursday 4 May
• Exhibition runs 5 May – 27 May 2017
• Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Road, Moonah
• Open 10am-5pm Tuesday – Friday and 11am-3pm Saturdays
• Entry to the exhibition is free

Image: Kate Piekutowski, The Ladies in Porto, unique state multi-layered etching

UNIQUE STATE

Unique State is one of two exhibitions opening at Moonah Arts Centre at 6pm on Thursday 4 May.

Featuring new work by artists from the Hunter Island Press, Unique State explores the unique properties of printmaking.

Hunter Island Press is a not for profit organisation based in Hobart which focusses on the medium and processes of printmaking. The organisation provides facilities for printmakers in Tasmania and aims to promote established and emerging local artists.

In its simplest form, printmaking is the process of creating a print, like a stamp, transferring ink from one surface to another. However, the breadth of techniques, processes and materials grouped under this umbrella category is multifarious.

This exhibition presents works on paper using a myriad of printmaking techniques including etching, lino-cut, wood block, collagraph and digital.

While many printmaking techniques allow artists to create multiples, a unique state print is one-of-a-kind.

The artists in the exhibition invite you to explore the unique properties of mark-making, through both traditional and experimental means, in the medium of printmaking.

Exhibiting artists are Rebekah Francis, Kate Piekutowski, Diana Michalek, Chris Needham, Jenny Blake, Cath De Little, Patricia Martin, Anna Berger, Diane Masters, Janice Luckman, Alicja Boyd, Katy Woodroffe, Penny Ruthberg, Carolyn Canty, Jeanie Edwards and Luisa Romeo.

Unique State will be on display at MAC from 5 May until 27 May.

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION:
• Opening 6pm Thursday 4 May
• Exhibition runs 5 May – 27 May 2017
• Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Road, Moonah
• Open 10am-5pm Tuesday – Friday and 11am-3pm Saturdays
• Entry to the exhibition is free
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