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"Outdooring" Photo Exhibition

25 February 2005 - 22 March 2005

outdooring is an exhibition of 6 emerging Australian photo-media artists who depict one of the oldest and most culturally saturated subjects to convey their ideas - the landscape. The photographs in outdooring cannot be considered traditional landscapes, they are more complex investigations of the interplay between nature and culture, which is metaphorically represented by the title of this exhibition. The participating artists all use medium and large format cameras to produce their work. This entails carrying around cumbersome equipment and restricts the number of exposures that can be made. Therefore concepts are often derived after extensive periods of looking and contemplation, what could be considered a mental and physical form of outdooring. All the participating artists have undertaken postgraduate photographic studies within Australian Universities and are recognised as emerging artists in the Australian contemporary art scene: they have exhibited internationally, received Australian Arts Council grants and won various awards. outdooring features colour photographic works made in Australia, Japan and China and will act as an introduction to these artists and the calibre of contemporary Australian photo-media art.

Simon Cuthbert
Simon Cuthbert has been a prolific photographer since his early studies in 1983. His camera has taken him to China, America, Japan and Europe and in his town of Tasmania he works and photographs for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. He has curated 2 important photo exhibitions: Pivot V: About Photography and "F": Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project. Simon shifts with ease between medium and technique and his more recent work seeks to reveal flaws in the idealism of Utopia and Arcadia. In 2004 he was highly commended at the Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award.

Kristian Haggblom
The work of Kristian Haggblom juxtaposes urban and landscapes, which he shoots in both Australia and Japan (where he is based). His work is an investigation of the interplay of culture and nature, and poses questions about possible future ramifications of this bind. In 2003 he was a finalist in the Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize and he is currently coordinating an exhibition, titled Paper Bridges, of 3 Australian and 3 Japanese artists that will open at CAST, Tasmania in March 2005.

Siri Hayes
Siri Hayes creates images on the edge of urban spaces and infuses them with people whose tiny gestures are imbued with meaning. In her photographs the landscapes depicted are intensified by the presence of a figure. She has recently travelled to Korea and Japan to produce new work with funding assistance from the Australia Korea foundation. In 2004 she held a major solo exhibition at the Benalla Regional Art Gallery and also won the prestigious Deralbin - La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize.

Paul Knights
Paul Knights 2004 Centre for Contemporary Photography exhibition was simply titled Photographs, though the images he hung were far more complex than his modest title. His photographs purvey a heavy sense of anticipation and he offers the viewer an entry into these spaces of contemplation via a staircase or the urge to pull back a curtain. Paul has exhibited in many important Australian group shows and recently travelled to Honk Kong to photograph.

Andrew McLaughlin
In 2000 Andrew McLaughlin won the Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist of the Year Award from the Australian Centre of Photography. His photographs render everyday suburban spaces with a sense of mystery and wonder. Andrew attempts to capture, if only momentarily, the in-between moments that gathered together form our memories. The untitled photographs he has been compiling since 1998 show a technical mastery of old and new photo technologies.

Selina Ou
In the last few years Selina Ou has shot to popularity in the Australian contemporary art scene. Perhaps this is because we can easily identify with the sterile commercial and entertainment spaces she documents. The figure is always prominent in Selina's work, but more often than not it is the space they inhabit that speaks for them. In 2003 she won the Hobart City Art Prize and from February to April 2005 she will take part in the Australia Council Tokyo artist residency program.

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