From the sheer outline of Calla Lilies leaning delicately in profile to the perfect symmetry of a lone Banksia, photographer Jacqui Dean is much less interested in the hue of a flower’s petals than she is in what lies beneath.
“I exist because I see colours,” Beirut-born visual artist, essayist and poet Etel Adnan once said. Her artworks act as living embodiments of this notion; contrasting hues sit side-by-side across painted canvases, infused with the memories and landscapes of her childhood.
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent van Gogh.
Sydney’s National Art School is offering a chance to see what your life as an artist might look like in reality with its open day on September 3.
“The magic of photography is metaphysical.” The fascination was spurred at an early age for photographer Terence Donovan, who begun his 40-year career with an apprenticeship at the London School of Photo-Engraving when he was only 11. That boy would become one of the most revelatory fashion photographers of a generation, capturing and defining the bright spirit of the 60s – and beyond – with his celebrity and portrait imagery.
Figures float, suspended in darkness. Curves shine metallic as if lit by the moon. In the mind’s eye of photographer Sylvè Colless this “isolation in space and reflection” represents the human psyche. “The bodies in the images are the ‘light’.” This is the concept behind her new exhibition, Aurélia.
Big ideas on silver screens. Returning to the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2017, the Fashion Film Series – presented by RUSSH – shines a light on emerging and recognised fashion filmmakers. Applications for the festival are open ’til September 30, with finalists announced in late October.
The eyes focus; then the mind, then the lens. All that matters is this place and time, and the beauty that’s right in front of you.
If mindfulness is, as described by philosopher Lao Tzu “the practice of purposely focusing your attention on the present moment– and accepting it without judgment”, then it should come as no surprise that the art of photography might be a way to reach it.
He gave us The Velvet Underground, Transformer, Walk On The Wild Side, Berlin and so much more – a revolutionary melody maker with a career spanning more than five decades, Lou Reed has more than earned himself a place in rock history. Through his creative arc the worlds of pop music, poetry and experimental composition were artfully united, laying down a new sound and paradigm shift.
Regarded as fashion’s foremost illustrator and credited with discovering Jerry Hall and Grace Jones, Antonio Lopez left a bright and lasting legacy.
