Grahame Sydney: Images of Antarctica

Please find enclosed information on an art exhibition of Antarctic photographs by Grahame Sydney at the Salamander Gallery in Christchurch. The exhibition will consist of twelve images, for sale in editions of five for each image.

Grahame Sydney
20 March - 8 April

'Images of Antarctica'
photographs from two journeys South

" It is an enviable privilege to have twice been guest of Antarctica New Zealand at Scott Base - the first journey South during November/December 2003, the second in October 2006. Temperatures there at those times of year make the habitual tools of painters like me - pencil and paper, with some watercolour notes perhaps - quite impossible on the ice, and I quickly realised I would have to adapt and make the camera my medium. These images are selected from the many hundreds I shot during those four weeks on and around Ross Island.

All photographs are digital images and have not been altered since their taking. My hope is that when everyone can return home with stunning pictures, so astonishing is the Antarctic environment and so easy the digital technology, I can still emerge with a quality of work which reeks of my own vision, my own hand, unlike any other. Its my hope that when people study these rather minimal images they still find the unmistakable "Sydney" manner and style. Its a tall order, but worth trying.

I found that what I wanted to do with the "landscape" there, how I felt about it, was a little different to what others do and feel - and that's the way it should be. Art is experience distilled through the personality, and in the remarkable, sterile and subtle world of the Ice I found mirrored a great deal of myself."

Grahame Sydney
Cambrian valley,
Central Otago

http://www.salamandergallery.co.nz

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