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Australian Minescapes | Breathe
Edward Burtynsky: Australian Minescapes
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Friday 17 July to Saturday 22 August
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 1&2
A travelling exhibition from the Western Australian Museum
Edward Burtynsky is one of the world's leading contemporary landscape photographers. His 'manufactured landscapes' have included stark images of recycling yards, mine tailings, quarries and refineries. This series of images, taken in the eastern goldfields and the Pilbara of Western Australia, continues Edward Burtynsky's examination of natural landscapes modified by mankind in the pursuit of the raw materials required for our modern society.
"Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times." Edward Burtynsky
Australian Minescapes is a new body of work by Burtynsky, commissioned for the FotoFreo 2008 Festival. For this exhibition a selection of images from his Shipyard images from China and Ship Breaking images from Bangladesh will be presented alongside his Australian Minescapes images.
IMAGE © Edward Burtynsky Silver Lake Operations #15 Lake Lefroy, Western Australia 2007
IMAGE © Edward Burtynsky Super Pit #4 Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 2007
IMAGE © Edward Burtynsky Tailings #1 Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 2007
Christopher Ireland: Breathe
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Friday 17 July to Saturday 22 August
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 3
Thousands of Australians die each year from diseases caused by inhaling asbestos. In a cruel irony, what was once hailed as a 'wonder fibre' is now the undoing of many who breathe it in. Embedded in the lungs, the tiny fibres can cause cancers and lung diseases that eventually suffocate the affected.
Breathe is a collection of portraits of women who have lost their husbands to asbestos-related diseases. Photographed by Christopher Ireland in their local environment, each image tells a story about how these women have looked for answers, struggled to cope and ultimately grieved their loss.
Asbestos leaves a cruel legacy. Many more healthy, breathing Australians will fall victim to fibres that have already lodged in their lungs as death rates peak around 2025. In the dread that it engenders, in the pain and suffering it brings to so many families, in the arrested dreams and the contemplation of what may lie ahead, it knocks us breathless.
IMAGE © Christopher Ireland Dorothy 2008IMAGE © Christopher Ireland Joan 2008
IMAGE © Christopher Ireland Karen 2008
IMAGE © Christopher Ireland Kath 2008
Francesca Rosa: Interior Disaster
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Friday 17 July to Saturday 22 August
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 4
Interior Disaster is a record of a decomposing household approximately eleven months after Cyclone Larry destroyed it. With the studious intent of a forensic photographer, Francesca Rosa takes inventory of the peeling veneers and mouldy carpets as residual evidence of a crime by an absent and unknowable perpetrator.
Queensland artist Francesca Rosa grew up in Innisfail and witnessed first hand the devastation Larry caused. Interior Disaster forms part of a larger body of work that focuses on the interface between people and their environments from various locations throughout Far North Queensland.
IMAGE © Francesca Rosa Interior Disaster #2 2007IMAGE © Francesca Rosa Interior Disaster #4 2007
IMAGE © Francesca Rosa Interior Disaster #5 2007
IMAGE © Francesca Rosa Interior Disaster #7 2007