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Light Touch: Photographs by Christine Godden
Gallery East, 21 Burnie Street, Clovelly NSW 2031
12 – 26 May 2011
Photography is the most ‘hands-off’ medium, calculating and mechanical, but the artist here is concerned with things that invite, that almost cry out for the sense of touch. By taking touch as the subject of a medium that denies us the ability to satisfy that sense, the artist makes us more than ever aware, and hungry for tactility.
Timelines: Photography + Time
NGV International, Melbourne 7 May – 3 October 2010
Time is a slippery notion. It is everywhere and always moving but this powerful regulating force cannot be seen. It is only apparent in context: in the changing seasons, in another wrinkle on our faces, in the growth of children. Photography has a unique role to play in our sometimes poignant sense of time passing. The camera’s ability to depict ‘a moment in time’ – to stop the clock for a brief moment – gives photographs a unique capacity to direct our consideration towards the mechanics and poetics of this pervasive and mysterious cosmic force. In this exhibition one aspect of time is considered from a photographic perspective: namely, human life. Works have been selected from the permanent collection both by International and Australian photographers that show an interest in some aspect of lifecycles. Arranged, in part, in a ‘timeline’, these works provoke our understanding of the mediums capacity to suggest the concept of time in ways that may be surprising, moving or even confronting. The exhibition also looks at how photographers have extended a sense of time and duration through images that work in series. Photographers include: Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Ruth Maddison, Rod McNicol, Rosemary Laing and Christine Godden.
Long Distance Vision: Three Australian Photographers
National Gallery of Victoria 22 August 2009 – 7 February 2010
The exhibition examines the idea of the ‘tourist gaze’ and its relationship with three Australian photographers. The exhibition, which is drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, considers the work of Christine Godden, Max Pam and Matthew Sleeth, who have photographed not only aspects of the everyday at home but venture forth with the delighted, but not uncritical, eyes of the traveller.
Light Touch: Photographs by Christine Godden
Araluen Arts Centre 13 June – 2 August 2009
Photography is the most ‘hands-off’ medium, calculating and mechanical, but the artist here is concerned with things that invite, that almost cry out for the sense of touch. By taking touch as the subject of a medium that denies us the ability to satisfy that sense, the artist makes us more than ever aware, and hungry for tactility.