The Dingo's Noctuary
The Dingo's Noctuary
Judith Crispin
Ellen Melville Centre
Outdoor exhibition 24 hrs/7 days - Freyberg Pl, cnr High St and Freyberg Pl
27 May - 15 June 2020
Also 8pm 28 May | 31 May | 9 June Freeview CH 200
Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography
Listen to Kim Hill interview Judith Crispin and view as election of images here
Judith Crispin, Enid, connected to Earth by zodiacal light– spider-strings in the old language, the umbilicus of Country 2019
Auckland Festival of Photography presents 'The Dingos Noctuary' by Australian photographer, Judith Nagala Crispin.
Judith Nagala Crispin is a Canberra-based poet and visual artist, with an background in music. Her series is displayed on 8 lightboxes in the heart of the city to create a scene of spirit animals freely illuminating within the urban landscape.
Judith describes her work 'These works are made with a technique I’m calling Lumachrome glass printing– combining lumen printing, chemigram and cliché-verre. I began working this way while searching for my family’s lost Aboriginal ancestry.
These cameraless techniques respond to ideas taught to me by Warlpiri painters in the Tanami desert. They spoke to me of kurruwari, patterns in the landscape. Allowing nature to mark a canvas before painting, with dirt or tracks, an artist collaborates with Country. These Lumachromes are my response to kurruwari. Images on the page are generated, literally, from light, earth and flesh.
https://judithcrispin.com