The Australian Centre for Photography has announced its summer exhibition season for 2013, with shows scheduled for Ann Shelton (New Zealand), Robert Besanko (Australia), Darragh O'Callaghan (Ireland), David Sudmalis (Australia) and René Norwie (Australia).
In her exhibition "in a forest," Ann Shelton has photographed a collection of trees given to gold medalists as seedlings at the 1936 Berlin Games. Sometimes dubbed ‘Hitler oaks’, these trees are still in existence around the world including in the US, the Netherlands, Hungary, Germany and France.
In Robert Besanko's "Contemplations," a new image will be exhibited each month over a period of 12 months. Images photographed by Besanko in the 1970s and 80s will be displayed alongside newly digitised and enlarged versions of the works in an effort to "extend the scale of his original photographs [and] explore the characteristic textures and shapes of his iconic images."
Aphasia is a new work by collaborating Irish and Australian artists Darragh O'Callaghan and David Sudmalis drawing together photomedia, sculpture, sound, music and performance.
In her first solo show, René Norwie explores questions of motherhood with a series of images of the bare torsos of mothers, stripped of cultural maternal indicators. The images are accompanied by personal insights and experiences of motherhood in the form of pinned notes on the wall.
All works are new commissions devised for the Australian Centre for Photography. The Australian Centre for Photography is located at 257 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney and is open daily from 10am - 5pm.
Seedling, George Miez’s Olympic Oak, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2011. From 'In a Forest'. Photo by Ann Shelton. (Courtesy the artist.)
Untitled (Denise), 1976. Photo by Robert Besanko. (Courtesy the Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney.)
Aphasia – Under the Bridge, 2012. Photo by Darragh O’Callaghan and David Sudmalis. (Courtesy the artists.)
The Idealised Matter – Jane, 2011. Photo by René Norwie. (Courtesy the artist.)
