Norm Neilson

When I Was There

West Gallery 19 February–9 March

Photography and the desire for adventure has taken Norm and Jean Neilson to many exciting destinations such as the Alaskan Inside Passage with its glacier terminal faces calving and producing the most extraordinary sculptured icebergs with variations in colour from pure white to deep blue.

Other destinations include Western Canada, Italy, France, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nepal and Switzerland as well as many isolated areas of Australia and recently inland Australia.

Norm has only just moved from traditional film to digital and while it has been something of a ‘wrench’ technically the same principles of considered composition, attention to light and detail and producing a high quality original image remain from his ‘film’ days.

Norm has had a number of solo exhibitions as well as participating in group shows and his work has been seen across Gippsland. Norm was also the honorary photographer and designer of the extremely popular Metung Blood Hounds black and white nude calendar “The Nautical Ladies of the Lakes” that was most successful in raising funds for the Bairnsdale Regional Health’s Oncology Unit and Australian Breast Cancer Research.

When I Was There is a potpourri of images taken ‘when Norm was there’ and the exhibition will transport visitors to destinations across the world.

Opens at 6pm on Thursday, 18 February.

Nielson

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Jan Learmonth & Mary Sullivan

Tracing

East Gallery 19 February – 9 March

Tracing is by well-established artists Janet Learmonth and Mary Sullivan and both mother and daughter have extensive exhibition experience.

Janet Learmonth’s monochromatic photograms are beautifully composed and deceptively simple textural silhouettes of feathers, grasses and found objects and it is through the details of these items that she traces the natural landscape.

Mary Sullivan became interested in the evidence of previous occupation of her Brooklyn, New York, neighbourhood. While the streets were tight with the everyday happenings of a city, the evidence of previous occupations could be observed on every cornerand she began to photograph the abandoned places and their historical markers.

This concept of ‘trace marks’ expanded to the country side and in Mary’s latest travels to Colombia abandoned piles of fishermen’s nets, floats and ropes became the focus of her images. Mary also includes in the show a number of drawings that trace and detail the lines found in the tangle of a fisherman’s detritus.

Tracing opens at 6pm on Thursday, 18 February

Jan Learmonth and Mary Sullivan

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