OUT OF THE BOX -Long Live the Archive
Sandy Edwards
Upstairs | Opens on Apr 28 until May 15 | Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun
To 'unpack' photographs and proofsheets from a lifetime of projects, exhibitions and personal history as a photographer. This will be a work in process. Throughout the exhibition photos and proofs will grow from the boxes to the walls.
To 'unpack' photographs and proof sheets from a lifetime of projects, exhibitions and personal histories as a photographer.
This will be a work in process. Throughout the exhibition photos and proofs will move/grow from the boxes to the walls.
The different archives will be articulated and will clarify a resting place for them to be gifted to, within appropriate institutions.
A major objective of this 'research' exhibition is to endeavour to match different projects to appropriate institutions to gift, place or sell the work so it has a presence for future generations. I want to understand the nature of Deductable Gift Status (DGS) and make wise and informed choices for the placement of my work before I die. I not only want to 'entomb' the work in an archive but rather want to bring alive the personal photography stories which are a rich documentation of a very rich historic period.
A major schism that will manifest is that of my commissioned documentary photography (eg. The After 200 Years Bicentennial Project in which I was sent to Brewarrina to document key indigenous leaders on that community - Brewarrina is two thirds indigenous / one third white) and my personal photography in which I photographed close friends and associated colleagues (my peer group). This work is made up of multiple interwoven narratives which cover both my black and white (and to a less degree colour) analogue photography and the transition to digital primarily colour photography. This is a major archive of another nature to the commissioned projects.
This process will be visible to the visiting audience throughout the exhibition period and a public revelation will be celebrated on the last day of the exhibition.
This will be a work in process. Throughout the exhibition photos and proofs will move/grow from the boxes to the walls.
The different archives will be articulated and will clarify a resting place for them to be gifted to, within appropriate institutions.
A major objective of this 'research' exhibition is to endeavour to match different projects to appropriate institutions to gift, place or sell the work so it has a presence for future generations. I want to understand the nature of Deductable Gift Status (DGS) and make wise and informed choices for the placement of my work before I die. I not only want to 'entomb' the work in an archive but rather want to bring alive the personal photography stories which are a rich documentation of a very rich historic period.
A major schism that will manifest is that of my commissioned documentary photography (eg. The After 200 Years Bicentennial Project in which I was sent to Brewarrina to document key indigenous leaders on that community - Brewarrina is two thirds indigenous / one third white) and my personal photography in which I photographed close friends and associated colleagues (my peer group). This work is made up of multiple interwoven narratives which cover both my black and white (and to a less degree colour) analogue photography and the transition to digital primarily colour photography. This is a major archive of another nature to the commissioned projects.
This process will be visible to the visiting audience throughout the exhibition period and a public revelation will be celebrated on the last day of the exhibition.
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Opening reception | Sat Apr 30, 2-5pm
Opening reception for Margaret Roberts (with work supported by NAS), Sandy Edwards and a pop-up installation by articulate.
Artist talks | 'Nature of the Archive', Sun May 15, 12-2pm
Artists talk about the Nature of the Archive. Speakers include Gael Newton (famously the International Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and Dr Helen Grace who has been a marvellous role model in the digitisation of her black and white analogue photography and her capacity to draw out stories from those archives to create still photography and video artworks about feminism, gender and politics.
