Horsham Regional Art Gallery

PAST EXHIBITIONS

2002

LOOKING BACK Jan 15 – March 17, 2002. 30 images of Horsham and district from the first half of the 20th Century by Samuel George Cahill (1887-1957). Cahill operated a photographic studio in Horsham for many years and he documented a wealth of social history in Horsham and district. The exhibition includes images of the city’s hotels (complete with their iron lacework verandahs); activity in the streets; and look at some of the industry that made Horsham what it is today.

A GIRL CALLED NOVELLA March 19 – May 12, 2002. A multimedia project by Craig Dent

ONE MAN’S EYE May 14 – July 21, 2002. Selected portraits by Ian Hawthorne from a collection of almost 300 images given to Horsham Regional Art Gallery in 1995. Hawthorne operated a commercial photographic studio in Geelong for 40 years. The portraits document politicians, artists and public figures in the Geelong region from 1980-1990.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS July 23 – October 6, 2002. Photographs acquired by Horsham Regional Art Gallery in the past three years. Includes works by Wolfgang Sievers, Konrad Winkler, Joyce Evans, Christopher Koller, Hugh Jenkin, Jon Rhodes and Efthima Kanitis.

DAVID FLETCHER’S ORCHID COLLECTION October 8 – December 1, 2002. 60 photographs of orchids by Murtoa photographer David Fletcher.

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL December 3, 2002 – March 9, 2003. Selected works from the Bill and Maureen Mann Collection of Wildlife Art including paintings and drawings, some of which are on show to the public for the first time. Includes works by Steve Morvell.

IN OUR OWN IMAGE
Selected works for the Gallery’s photographic collection depicting the Wimmera landscape, it’s characters, and those with a local connection. Includes a collection of press photography acquired in 1990 from the Wimmera Mail-Times’ exhibition - Best of the Press, and works by Bill Henson, Robert Billington, Joyce Evans, Ian Hawthorne and Con Kroker.

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
Works from the Gallery’s collections that have a story behind them. Includes Max Dupain’s Meat Queue, David Moore’s Migrants Arriving in Sydney, Hurley’s Imprisoned in Ice, 1915, and. The exhibition includes other works by Phillip Barratt, Robert Billington, John Werrett and Carol Jerrams.

I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY …
Selected Australian Landscapes from the Gallery’s photographic collection. Includes work by John Cato, David Fletcher, Gerrit Fokkema, Trevor Kenyon, Con Kroker, Les Walkling, Stephen Wickham and Laurie Wilson.

OPENING UP THE LENS–AUSTRALIAN PICTORIALISM (30 photographs)
Around 100 years ago, the Pictorialist photographer pioneered the idea of pictures for picture’s sake - the photograph was no longer taken for purely functional purposes – the photograph could be an art work as well. For the Pictorialist the ‘atmosphere’ in the photograph became as important as the image. Exhibition includes the work of Esther Baylis, Harold Cazneaux, Pegg Clarke, John Eaton, Norman Deck and Julian Smith.

CONCRETE AND CLAY
Selected architectural images from the Gallery’s photographic collection. Includes works by Venise Alstergren, Brian Greed, Tim Handfield, Mark Johnson, Steven Lojewski, Grant Mudford, Mark Strizic, Eric Thake and John Wilkins.

LOOKING BACK (30 photographs)
30 images of Horsham and district from the first half of the 20th Century by Samuel George Cahill (1887-1957). Cahill operated a photographic studio in Horsham for many years and he documented a wealth of social history in Horsham and district. The exhibition includes images of the city’s hotels (complete with their iron lacework verandahs); activity in the streets; and look at some of the industry that made Horsham what it is today.

ONE MAN’S EYE (25 – 30 photographs)
Selected portraits by Ian Hawthorne from a collection of almost 300 images given to Horsham Regional Art Gallery in 1995. Hawthorne operated a commercial photographic studio in Geelong for 40 years. The portraits document politicians, artists and public figures in the Geelong region from 1980-1990.

ROMANCE OF RAIL (24 photographs)
This is an exhibition about the feelings evoked from being near a “track”. The black and white images, by local photographer, Jeff Harvey, were taken around mid-north South Australia, Victoria, far north Queensland’s lower gulf country and a few from the UK where Jeff spent three months traveling and visiting various railway preservation societies.

EYE WITNESS (30 photographs)
John Immig is one of a handful of Australian photographers to be given access to the refugee safe havens in Australia. This exhibition of 30 black and white photographs includes images of the Kosovar refugees at the Singleton safe haven; of the East Timorese refugees at the East Hills army base safe haven; of the Green Left Sydney Protest bus to Parliament House Canberra; and of the Afghan refugees (Hazaris and Shiite) working in the abattoir in Young, NSW. The photographs were taken between 1999 and 2002.

THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CON KROKER (1910-1989) (37 photographs)
Con Kroker was foundation president of the Horsham Camera Club and president of the local field naturalists for many years. This exhibition includes some of his best landscapes and nature studies from 1942 – 1981.

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Image: Matthew SLEETH, Security, 2005-08, type c photograph on dibond aluminium, purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund with the assistance of the Robert Salzer Foundation, 2009. © Reproduced courtesy of the artist.

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