Detail | Luisa Falivene

Continuing with our series on Neutral Density we have the work of Luisa Falivene. This series of images was created in response to the _on this site student project where a location was selected as the focus for a body of work. Rather than using a site of significance, the project involved the students being blindfolded and randomly selecting a site from a map of the local area.

Detail | Rosina Byrne

Rosina Byrne x=Acosωt (Simple harmonic motion), 
Archival Pigment Print, 40cm x40cm, 2012

During this month we will be taking a closer look at the work exhibited in Neutral Density and today we have the work of Rosina Byrne. Byrne is a Mildura based artist "trying to understand or make sense of life, death and everything in between" http://rosinabyrne.wordpress.com/

"There is a purity and clarity in multiples; like a repetitive rhythm, almost musical; so much like a metronome.  It is a fractured surface that makes up a whole; a self; it is about working through events, everyday emotions, this
is the way we live our lives. Among all the fractured objects there still is strength; a solid structure, a solid frame work that keeps it all together. It is firm, strong but still has a repetitive inner soul. It is the inner workings; to survive we need to accept ups and downs in our lives; it is the resilience that we develop during life experiences that holds everything together, with resilience you can always bounce back. Oscillation is the simple harmonic balance of life. This body of work is in what manner we as individuals oscillate back and for through life." - Rosina Byrne

She has shown in a range of university exhibitions, participated in Mildura's 'LEAP' project space with a night projection piece and in whitecubemildura, a local artist run initiative.

Neutral Density will be on display until March 2 with the opening being held March 1 to coincide with the university orientation program.

Neutral Density | an exhibition of La Trobe University photography students

Maddison Ruchel

Wallflower is pleased to get our blogging year rolling with two images from Maddison Ruchel's 'Location' series. Ruchel's work will be in the upcoming exhibition 'Neutral Density' of past and present La Trobe University Mildura photography students. A selection of work from Rosina Byrne, Luisa Falivene, Luara Frietag, Clare Harrison, Chloe Mackie, Maddison Ruchel and Nicholas Stamp will be on display until March 2. 

In an unusual twist on the traditional opening we will be having a closing party Friday 1st March from 5-7pm to coincide with the beginning of the university year.

Maddison Ruchel

Upcoming | Alicja Dobrucka

Alicja Dobrucka. 'I like you, I like you a lot'

Welcome everyone! A new year has begun and Wallflower is thrilled to provide a sneak peak and video interview of Alicja Dobrucka's upcoming exhibition "I like you, I like you a lot" as our first post of 2013. We are looking forward to this and many other fantastic shows.

The London-based Polish photographer draws her inspiration from her home country Poland. In her artist statement she explains:

“My work is mainly about the familiar, known from direct experience. I’m a diarist, I work intuitively, photography, documenting comes to me naturally. I don’t glamourize reality, a certain raw quality to the work.

I’m interested in the journey - the conversations that need to happen for the work to develop. As an artist its very important to me that the work can move and be understood by people,  audiences not only from the fine art world but also the ones who have no knowledge of critical theory."

'I like you, I like you a lot' is a project about family and grieving and began once Alicja got news that her brother had passed away. The work opens up the personal space of mourning to broader affects and poses questions about vulnerability, youth, motherhood, and domesticity. Alicja's camera later returns to central Europe and her brothers youthful group of friends in a small urban-rural locality, as they find their way to a fuller, more mature, life.

Viewing Platforms | Radio review

This morning on Triple R (3RRR 102.7FM) the SmartArts program had a short review by Ace Wagstaf of our curator Kristian Hagglom's exhibition 'Viewing Platforms' at Edmund Pearce and we're pretty ok with the fact they used the term "Lynchian" in regard to the smashed up popup...

Check it out via Radio On Demand, the link will take you straight to the start of the (most important) Haggblom section at 00:40:57:

http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/grid/20121206094057

Detail | Intervals

Kerryn Sylvia, Untitled 2012, Polardroid Duratran in lightbox with coloured mount board, 29cm x 21cm

Continuing our exploration of Intervals from our current show by Kerryn Sylvia, we have two more of her nostalgic and personal images to present to you.

"Outside floats half a house hovering in that place, between, completed only by its shadow, warping and
shifting with the direction of the light. Inside, shadow gives way to the light … although the subjective
quality of each moment remembered also distorts and shifts and finds its voice in memories that form as a
stream of consciousness recovered from childhood experiences.

The exhibition Intervals explores personal dichotomies in time and space that began in 2011 as part of my
Honours year of study and continues up until the present moment... The passage of time becomes morphed with a warping of perspective that occurs between the child and adult self like a gap, interval, or dramatic pause within the realm of the ordinary and mundane." - Kerryn Sylvia

Kerryn Sylvia, Untitled 2012, Polardroid Duratran in lightbox with coloured mount board, 29cm x 21cm

Intervals by Kerryn Sylvia and the accompanying exhibition Hold from Kirbi Kenniwell will be at Wallflower until December 14.