SPECULATIVE SPACES

Return to White Cloud Lake from The Pale Mirror series 2012

© Mark Kimber Giclee print 40×40cm 

Upcoming group show Speculative Spaces at Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney curated by David Eastwood 2-26 March 2013.

Speculative Spaces explores the processes of artists for whom miniature models serve as a source of inspiration. The above image  Return to White Cloud Lake is by the wonderful Mark Kimber who I was lucky enough to meet in Los Angeles for Photo La and get a deeper insight into the process and ideas behind his elusive works. 

Catalogue essay by David Eastwood available here Speculative_Spaces_essay.pdf

Included in THE TEN BEST THINGS TO DO AT ART MONTH SYDNEY
Concrete Playground Thursday 26 February 2013
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PHOTO LA

THE 22nd INTERNATIONAL LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC ART EXPOSITION 

SANTA MONICA CIVIC AUDITORIUM | JANUARY 17 - 21, 2013

I am very excited to be part of photo la 2013. The Queensland Centre for Photography will represent 10 Australian Artists at this years photographic art fair for more information visit the QCP website.

For more information about Photo Los Angeles 2013 visit their official website.

PUBLICATION LAUNCH

HOW IT HAPPENED

I thought I would reveal how my photographs are created as people are very curious and often ask. First step is location, location, location. I needed a wide-open space, which would also capture the surrounding environment. My mind was so distracted with finding an appropriate space that I did not realise that the space I chose was not only successful practically but also conceptually. It wasn’t until I returned to the space to re shoot that it all came together. The spaces were demolition sites, which meant I was replacing the absent spaces with presence. Lying on my stomach with a 50mm lens, I select the model while the sky and landscape is out of focus. The photography was a race against time to capture the fading soft afternoon light, which illuminated the imaginative spaces. Being an abandoned demolition site the spaces were over grown with aggressive weeds, bindi’s, broken glass, bugs and insects. By the end of the day my elbows were red raw, I had been the bull ants afternoon tea and I was covered in bindi’s which I still find in my clothes to this day.

F L O W

Anna Carey: Mirage (September 2012)