John Gollings Summer in Focus
Aug 10 - Sept 1 2024
John Gollings - Summer in Focus
The title ‘Summer Focus’ is a play on both the season and the technique.
This body of work has evolved from my experiments with a 1970’s Russian designed 800 mm catadioptic mirror lens that has unique optical properties. It allowed me to manipulate the annular bokeh (the rings of light in some of the images) using focus, or blurring the image with slow shutter speeds. I hope the result, whether to only see pure colour fields, or engage in the struggle to comprehend the forms, is to captivate the viewer.
Whilst I was always proud of my technically perfect photographs, and especially well focussed images that froze a moment in time, producing this rule breaking series has been creatively liberating.
John Gollings August 2024
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1. Summer Focus Black Rock
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
2. Summer Focus Black Rock #2
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
3. Summer Focus Dusk St Kilda #2
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
4. Soft Focus St Kilda
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond
Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
5. Soft Focus Luna Park Vicinity
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
6. Summer Focus #1
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
7. Summer Focus #2
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
8. Summer Focus Elwood St Kilda
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond
Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
9. Summer Focus Elwood St Kilda #2
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
10. Summer Focus #3
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
11. Summer Focus Elwood St Kilda #3
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
12. Summer Focus #4
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
13. Dendy Street Beach #4
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond
Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
14. Summer Focus Elwood St Kilda #4
15. Soft Focus Elwood Beach
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
16. Soft Focus Dendy Street #2
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond
Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
17. Summer Focus Seaford
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine Paper, Glazed Framed
Edition of 10
950 x 1400 mm
$ 4,000
Available in 610 x 860mm scale $1,750
18. Soft Focus Dendy Street
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
19. Summer Focus Seaford #3
20. Summer Focus #4
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond
Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
21. Summer Focus Elwood St Kilda #3
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Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Summer Focus Seaford #2
23. Summer Focus #5
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
24. Summer Focus #6
25. Summer Focus Flinders
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Not in exhibition but available
26. Summer Focus #7
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Not in exhibition but available
27. Summer Focus #8
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
Not in exhibition but available 28. Summer Focus #9
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
Also available in 950 x 1400 mm framed glazed & mounted on Dibond $ 4,000 or mounted onto Dibond (no glazed frame) $3,000
29. Not in exhibition but available
Summer Focus #10
Archival inkjet print on Canson Platine paper mounted on Dibond
Edition of 10
610 x 860mm
$1,750
John Gollings
John Gollings holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from RMIT University and an Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Architects. He works in the Asia-Pacific region as an architectural photographer, much of the work involving long-term cultural projects especially in India, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Libya and New Guinea. He specialises in the documentation of cities, old and new, often from the air. He has had a particular interest in the cyclic fires and floods that characterise the Australian landscape and he documents these with aerial photography. He was cocreative director of the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2010.
Books include two volumes of New Australia Style published by Thames & Hudson; City of Victory, Aperture; and Kashgar, Oasis City on China’s Old Silk Road, Frances Lincoln Limited. In 2012 Thames & Hudson published Beautiful Ugly a monograph of his contemporary architectural photography.
His work is held in national and international collections including: Asia Society, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne; State Library of Queensland, Brisbane; Janet Holmes á Court Collection, Cowaramup; Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise; Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton and the National Library of Australia,Canberra. The Kaladham Museum in Karnataka, India was built by the Jindal Steel Company to house his life’s work at the Hampi Ruins.
His work has recently been included in exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise; Immigration Museum, Melbourne; Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. In 2013, McClelland Gallery exhibited Aftermath, Gollings’ bushfire series from Black Saturday. The Lyon House Museum completed a major acquisition of large architectural images in 2024 which are on display for the next 12 months. Gollings retrospective, A History of the Built World , opened at the Monash Gallery of Art in 2018 and is now showing throughout India. His documentation of Nawala Garbarnang Rock Art,called Spirit of Place, was at Heide Gallery of Modern Art in 2019
He has twice received the Australian Institute of Architects Presidents Prize and in 2013 he was awarded the inaugural William J. Mitchell International Committee Prize by the Australian Institute of Architects. In 2016 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for ‘Significant service to photography through the documentation of iconic architectural landmarks in Australia and the Asia Pacific region’.