Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.
HERE&NOW17: New Photography centres on contemporary Western Australian artists working with, or at the margins of, photography.
Image:Image: Scott Burton, Untitled, 2016.
29 April - 8 July 2017
The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s annual HERE&NOW exhibition gives an emerging curator a chance to showcase the outstanding work of contemporary artists practising in Western Australia. Curated by Chelsea Hopper, HERE&NOW 17: New Photography aims to explore how Western Australians see themselves, how artists use photography to interrogate a place’s self-representation, and attempts to disrupt the dominance of east coast imagery in the Australian cultural imagination.
The exhibition aims to open up an “expanded field” of photography, and therefore question the nature of photography and image making in contemporary culture. This raises questions related to image culture;the internet and so-called ‘post-internet’ condition of art production; the nature of connectivity, image circulation, information networks and connection models within photo-based culture.
HERE&NOW17: New Photography includes ambitious new work from six WA-based artists: Jacqueline Ball, Scott Burton, Lucy Griggs, Dan McCabe, Lydia Trethewey and Georgia Kaw.