Also at Photospace: ‘Land Marks’ by Tony Whincup
July 27th, 2010
On show at Photospace Gallery, 1st Floor, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington. Exhibition runs from 7 - 31 Aug 2010. Opening Friday 6 Aug from 5 to 7pm.
The ten large-format colour photographs in Land Marks explore a range of marks created in the landscape of the Australian desert; roads, fences, considered and random constructions - each are open to interpretation individually and in relationship to one another.
Each image reflects different methods of construction; the existing rock named Uluru and the centuries of spiritual attribution which contribute to its significance today; the contemporary construction of a small pyramid surrounded by a circle of stones; a recently-place marker-stone, heavily graffitied (and reminiscent of ancient marker stones in Europe). In the subtle, natural repetition of the desert, each human mark, however minor, is significant.

