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............................................................................................................ SIMONE DOUGLAS Ever 2 March – 2 April 2011 Artereal 747 Darling St Rozelle, NSW 2039 Wed – Sat 11am – 5 pm Preview: Wed 2 March 2011 from 6-8 pm The Ever series forms part of an ongoing body of work by New York based photo artist Simone Douglas and coincides with Sydney’s Art Month 2011 Festival. Ever is an investigation of photography in relation to the sublime, excess, immateriality and the perceptual uncertainty of the photograph itself. The Ever images mark small events as potential acts of immensity. The images play with the ambiguity of appearances, utilising the contradiction between objective and subjective vision to explore the poetic aspect of photography. Ever alludes to a mythical and spiritual relationship with the landscape and forces of nature as proximity and distance collapse. Crystalline, elemental Simone Douglas_Ever XIII_2010_Lightbox with cloudscapes, wood moulding, Type C print_ 39 x 29cm ruptures and fissures in the land form these cryptic images which are ‘real’ shots, but abstract in appearance and idea. The works are micro in scale yet macro in vision and concept. Ocular perception, light and duration inform the conceptual basis for these images. The artist is looking at different modes of visual knowledge, and at how notions of image, perception and illusion can inform a view beyond site and seeing. For further information and high resolution images, please contact Rhianna Walcott rhianna@artereal.com.au or phone 02 9818 7473.
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Artist Biography: Born in Sydney. Lives and works New York City. Trained at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW and at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Simone Douglas has been exhibiting since the late 1980s. Her photographs have been exhibited at and are held in the collection of the V&A Museum, London, the Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Victoria and are also held in the collections of the Tate Modern, London, Artbank, State Library of NSW and have also been exhibited at the Photographers Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Simone Douglas_Ever I_2010_Type C print_29 x 39 cm Sydney and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Douglas was project director and curator for Picture Sydney: landmarks of a new generation at the Australian Museum, has been a guest scholar at Köln International School of Design, initiated the international art and design collective Conjecture and served on the Board of Directors at First Draft Gallery, Sydney. In 2010 Simone Douglas’ work was exhibited as part of the Pingyao International Photography Festival. She has also been on faculty for institutions internationally including: Parsons School of Design New York, The New School University; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney; the College of Fine Arts, University of Simone Douglas_Ever X_ 2010_Type C print_99 x 127 cm NSW and the National Art School, Sydney. Douglas’s work is increasingly concerned with the de-stabilising of form such that its resultant appearance is one of uncertainty.
For further information and high resolution images, please contact Rhianna Walcott rhianna@artereal.com.au or phone 02 9818 7473.
Media Contact Cash Brown 02 9818 7473 cash@artereal.com.au
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Media Contact Cash Brown 02 9818 7473 cash@artereal.com.au
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Media Contact Cash Brown 02 9818 7473 cash@artereal.com.au
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Media Contact Cash Brown 02 9818 7473 cash@artereal.com.au
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