Joseph McGlennon: Awakening NOW OPEN
online & on view at Level 2, 36 – 40 Queen Street, Woollahra NSW 2025
2 September – 13 September, 2020Now on view is Joseph McGlennon’s highly anticipated Awakening series, the artist’s latest suite of photographic artworks and his most compelling body of work to date. Exhibiting in the stunning ballroom on level 2 of the Bond Building in Woollahra, the haunting tones of Awakening raise complex environmental issues in the wake of the 2019-20 Summer bushfires.Level 2, 36 – 40 Queen Street
Woollahra NSW 2025
Open 7 days 10am – 4pm |
|
| Awakening is accompanied by insightful essays from two of Australia’s most regarded arts professionals. Gael Newton, the former and longest serving Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia addresses Joseph’s practice, regaling his life’s work in a wildlife photography context. Sydney Morning Herald Art Critic, John McDonald, speaks to Awakening specifically, highlighting the technically marvellous execution of this series as well as affirming the significance of its message. |
|
| McGlennon’s parrots stand in opposition to the cultural roles that have been mapped out for these birds. They are not subject to human whims, nor obliged to play the comedian to an audience. In these impossibly sharp-focused vignettes they appear as indigenous warriors standing guard over their ancestral lands, their plumage exhibited with pride and defiance. They are lords and guardians of the bush overseeing the grand, Romantic spectacle of life returning from the ashes.
John McDonald, 2020 |
|
Awakening is open to the general public by appointment. We warmly invite you to reserve an appointment via our online booking system. The Gallery can accomodate groups of up to 10 people.
Level 2, 36 – 40 Queen Street
Woollahra NSW 2025
Open 7 days 10am – 4pm |
|
|
|
|
|
