Ballarat Foto Biennale

Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

All the stuff is up at "The Bean Barn", 217 Sturt St Ballarat … well six pieces but they're 20x30's and I think look OK.
The show is called "Meditations on RD": the works being a homage to the paintings of the American, Richard Diebenkorn.
Elements in his paintings like their planar and structural approach I have found very appealing and although not strictly veristic in their evocations of the California coastline they cannot be considered fully abstract either and  Robert Hughes' comment that they were in "…in a tradition of Equivalents.." which I take to mean being an allusion to the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz seemed to encapsulate RD's conceptual base.
In a similar fashion, I didn't want to present these as "straight" representations of the subject and the two in the show that are more sculptural are attempts the extend the metaphor of movement in a more subtle fashion than by making flags.
Another element that I had to consider was that on viewing the original files it became apparent that even though the shutter speed was low, ¼ - ½ sec, there was sufficient detail in the pieces as to warrant the larger scale so that there was a more direct "painterly" reference to near and far, movement and stillness and also a quality of increased depth.
I have left a small book at the venue for the comments for any interested "togs" who may come up to Ballarat to visit for the month of the biennale.
More can be seen on .....
www.shanewombat.blogspot.com.au
Foto Biennale