Expanded Photography open until Sunday 21 May 5pm

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Ioulia Terizis

Amanda Williams

Julian Woods

Enrico Scotece

Katherine Scott

Sardar Sinjawi

Jack Banduch

Yvette Hamilton

Matt James

Expanded Photography opens Friday 5 May at 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm Fri - Sun 6-21 May 2017, 

opening Friday 5 May 6-8pm
Artists' Talks Saturday 13 May 3pm

Expanded Photography shows the work of artists Jack Banduch, Yvette Hamilton, Matt James, Noelene Lucas, Katherine Scott, Enrico Scotece, Sardar Sinjawi, Ioulia Terizis, Amanda Williams and Julian Woods, and is curated by Margaret Roberts.

Expanded Photography reflects on relationships between the virtual space of the photographic image and the live space in which it is located. It shows the work of artists whose practices explore such spatial relationships or otherwise reflect on the nature of photography, whether from the primary position of a photographer or that of an installation artist. 

The exhibition is designed by Articulate to support the interdisciplinary potential being explored within artpractices that are sometimes also more discipline-specific. It is also designed to explore ways in which the spatial concerns of Articulate can engage with the photographic concerns being emphasised by many exhibition around Sydney during Head On. 

Jack Banduch Concrete Ambivalence 2015.  Jack Banduch's work addresses the post-photographic gaze. His work aims to distort the material and receptive legibility of the photographic image to facilitate a renewed, potentially emancipatory platform for viewing. jackbanduch.com

Yvette Hamilton Viewfinder 2015 Cementa15 photo Ian Hobbes 

Yvette Hamilton's work charts the evolution of self, being and presence, as influenced by evolving technological heterotopias through the mediums of photomedia, video and interactivity. She has exhibited in widely in Australia and in London and Slovenia and has recently completed her MFA (Research) at Sydney College of the Arts. www.yvettehamilton.com

Yvette Hamilton​ Lightness #1 2016.  'Lightness' is a series of diptychs that are reductive self-portraits which contemplate the idea of the double. The left-hand image is an animated lightbox and the right-hand image is a photograph of the lightbox. 

Matthew James Coogee 2015, 2015, 3 rolls of Velvia 120 slide film housed in wooden light box, 

 'There is such a great difference between experiencing a landscape firsthand and seeing it mediated through a photograph. In the former, the potential of peripheral vision is not limited. . . Using a self-developed photographic process and a customised analogue camera, I capture images of the ocean that cover a whole roll of medium format photographic slide film – an attempt to make the largest image possible within the constraints of the medium.' from photoaccess.org.au/files/MatthewJames.web.pdf.  mattjamesimage.com  

Noelene Lucas, Breath, 2013 (video still - see part of moving image here)

  'Breath' is not really a photograph, as it first seems. It is included in this exhibition because the surprising arrival of a breeze during the making of the video shifts attention from the content to the medium, making visitors wonder why the dog is motionless, because they see it is not because it is a photograph. 

Katherine Scott  Imperfection in more than three worlds (detail) 2016.  
Katherine works back and forth between the still photographic image and the changing environment from which it is drawn. Her recent work is reminiscent of Carol Rudyard's 1980s and 90s pairing of the camera's and the visitor's slow scanning of the immediate environment, but further complicated by the escape of the image back into that environment which by then is also no longer what is was when it made the image.

Enrico Scotece Untitled  Fibre Base Silver Gelatin Contact Photograph 121 x 94mm
Enrico Scotece's work shows a continuity between images and the locations in which they are made by using methods, such as the pin-hole camera, that leave traces of the physical process of image-making. 

Sardar Sinjawi, After a Beam of Light, Space Ideation 2014.  Sardar Sinjawi is working on a Space Ideation project in which large images are formed through the interaction of reflections on close, transparent surfaces that, depending on light conditions, are read as large images on more distant surfaces. While they can be documented permanently in photographs, they are most surprising in actual space because they show us images that we already see but overlook, images that are commonplace in modern cities but fleeting because of our mobility.

Ioulia Terizis Slivers and Shard 2017 Gelatin Silver Photograph   83 x 113 cm

Ioulia is a multi-disciplinary artist engaging with materiality, form and  the nature

and processes of perception.  Her photographs merge the form of the photograph 

and the content of the image, exploiting the photograph's characteristic reduction

to create ambiguities of both form and content.   

Amanda Williams is an installation and photomedia artist whose work explores the history of photography and architectural modernism.  In this work Amanda explores the concept of entropy by using photographic materials and processes that evolve and change over time.   http://www.awilliams.com.au/

Amanda Williams, Contemplation Hollow, 2013

Julian Woods  Spirit Life Through Breath 2015 (projected video)
Julian Woods is a Sydney based inter-disciplinary artist. Completing honours in Art History from the University of Sydney in 2015 his current approach to art considers interactions to the environment, spaces, and time. To date, Julian's work has explored relationships between images and their locations through the simplification of images that, when projected onto walls, stairs etc, have their 'natural' movement recontextualised by their new environment.

An Associated exhibition of Head On Photo Festival

Head On Photo Festival

Work Out - the works

William Seeto

Sardar Sinjawi,William Seeto

Sardar Sinjawi

Sardar Sinjawi

Katherine Scott

Linden Braye

Margaret Roberts

Terry Hayes

Photos:Margaret Roberts

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Work Out opened last night

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open till Sunday 13 November, Fri-Sun 11-5pm

Artists talks downstairs: Sat 5 Nov 3pm; upstairs Sun 13 Nov 3pm

Photos: Sardar Sinjawi

Work Out opens Friday 28 October 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Saturday 29 October - 13 November

Artists' Talks: Saturday 5 November 3pm - Margaret Roberts, Terry Hayes 

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Work Out shows the work of artists Linden Braye, Terry Hayes, Margaret Roberts, Sardar Sinjawi, Katherine Scott and William Seeto, whose work invites some combination of physical and mental engagement. 

To 'work out' suggests the two apparently different processes of solving a puzzle in the mind and exercising the body in space. Even though these are commonly thought of as different processes, there has also long been an interest in the inter-dependency of the mind and the body. Artists implicitly accept that inter-dependency when they employ a spatial vocabulary—whether virtual or actual—to test the mind. In philosophy, Merleau-Ponty discussed this inter-dependency in terms of relationships between perception and reflection, for example as he reflected in 1964:

Left to itself, perception forgets itself and is ignorant of its own accomplishments. Far from thinking that philosophy is a useless repetition of life I think, on the contrary, that without reflection life would probably dissipate itself in ignorance of itself or in chaos. But this does not mean that reflection should be  carried away with itself or pretend to be ignorant of its origins. By fleeing difficulties it would only fail in its task. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, An Unpublished Text in The Primacy of Perception, trans James M. Edie, Northwestern University Press, 1964, p19)

The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty was drawn on by artists in the mid 20th Century to explain their growing interest in extending their spatial language from the virtual space of images to the actual space of the body as well. The work shown in Work Out inherits and emphasises that interest by being puzzles that are resolved or explored by bodily moving around or from some other actual spatial engagement. The particular interest that each of these artists has in this area is outlined below.

In the past, Linden Braye would don the costume of a generalised animal, and, while her loyal dog Luna was alive, challenge Luna (as well as human audiences) to work out what she had become. Luna tried to do this by running around and barking. Since Luna has passed on, Linden has sometimes become birds, attempting to leap into the sky or search for scraps in the ground or  rubbish bins.

Linden Braye 2016

Terry Hayes  will work with aboutness, as in 'What is this artwork about?' once the (art) and the (ab) have been worked out.

Terry Hayes 2011

Margaret Roberts will show some of the geometric processes that Francesco Borromini is thought to have used to work out the footprints of his 17th century baroque churches, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. They will be shown as wall drawings with facility for visitors to physically move parts to work out how its thought the shapes were devised.

Margaret Roberts 2016

In his long-term project, After a Beam of Light, Sardar Sinjawi explores the formation of images via the simple interaction of people and objects in spaces also populated by transparent reflective surfaces. He does this by asking viewers to work out the disjunctions between what they see from a single spot and what they know by moving around. He arrived at this by experimenting with clear perspex and mirror to create objects that are illusory like holograms, but that are actually mental entities that viewers themselves create through the conjunction of reflection and their own spatial location. He gives viewers the opportunity to understand that it is they who create the illusory object, just as they can also undo it by moving behind the reflection to see the illusory object disappear.

Sardar Sinjawi 2016

In a different way, Katherine Scott also problematises the image, using projections that ask viewers to work out their formation and relationship to the images' likenesses in the space that is occupied by both image and viewer. 

Katherine Scott 2016

 William Seeto will show work that is a continuation from his project, The Space in Between that explores the transformations produced by simple physical processes such as folding/unfolding/extension and that asks viewers to work out how those changes come about.

William Seeto 2016