Tree Tales 2023 Tree Veneration Society group show curated by Bernadette Smith, Sue Stevens and Jan Garden more info here https://www.instagram.com/treevenerationsociety/
Diffractions in Glass at Verge Gallery
"Equinox" photo-media installation for 'In Translation' a curated group show at Verge Gallery in 2018. Photograph by Richard Glover
Diffractions in Glass at East Sydney Doctors gallery
Don't miss some of my latest work plus favourites from my series of glass refraction photographs showing at East Sydney Doctors gallery, 102 Burton Street, Darlinghurst (located just opposite the National Art School entrance). The show has now been extended to October 28th and is open inside during surgery hours. This series was begun during my research degree at Sydney College of the Arts Callan Park campus where I explored the phenomenon of sunlight diffractions through its heritage window panes recording the bending and fracturing of light waves at extremely close range.
Top image: Solaris 102 cm diameter photograph printed on Chromaluxe aluminium circle Below: West 76 cm diameter photograph printed on Chromaluxe aluminium circle
Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize 2023
Thought-provoking works by 215 artists and designers from across Australia have been shortlisted for the prestigious annual Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize. Now in its third year, it brings together a community of creatives to highlight environmental concerns and I feel honoured to be among the selected finalists.
"Fresh perspectives on our global climate crisis and sustainable life on earth are on show in an outstanding exhibition of art and design". The exhibition is from 4 – 27 August at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery.
Georges River Council Artist Residency
My artist in residence creative stint at Carss Park ends with a closing artist talk on Saturday 19th August. For more info:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1042424
I was fortunate to have the opportunity of expanding and developing my art practice by working in nature and exploring both the environmental and
social contexts of the Georges River.
Wasteland or Wonderland - Reimagine Art Prize
My photo media artwork Liquid Steps has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Reimagine Art Prize on show at Wallarobba Art Centre in Hornsby, Sydney until 4th June. This is a straight photograph taken of Clovelly Marine Reserve steps as a wave rushes in. The image was created without manipulation and shows natural distortions caused by the sea and the colours of marine algae. This limited edition archival photograph of nature's wonder has been digitally printed onto recycled aluminium.
Arboreal Narratives group show Woollahra Gallery
Standing next to Encounter dye sublimated photograph on chiffon fabric
My art is included in a multidisciplinary exhibition based on trees and the natural environment, organised by the Tree Veneration Society, showing from April 5 to 30 at the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, 548 New South Head Road, Double Bay, Sydney. There is also a Tree Festival on April 15 that includes Tree Workshops ( 10-12.00); a Tree Parade around the Significant Trees of the Blackburn Gardens ( 12.30-1.30) and a Symposium that explores the importance of Trees from an indigenous, scientific, creative and local perspective ( 2 - 4.30pm). All welcome more info here https://treevenerationsociety.com/in-conversation-arboreal-narratives-2023-exhibition/. #trees#natureconservaton #ecoart #environmentalart.
Synergies diptych dye sublimated photograph printed on recycled aluminium
'Bass Sails Into Booderee' finalist for Halloran Art Prize
Opening night visitor studies 'Surgeon Bass Sails Into Booderee', a collaborative expanded painting by Mark Elliot-Ranken and Bernadette Smith showing at Jervis Bay Maritime Museum for the inaugural Halloran Art Prize until 30th January 2023.
In the Halloran Collection of the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum is a painting of Surgeon Bass sailing his open whale boat, manned by convicts offered pardons to do so into the bay then called ‘Booderee’ by the Dhurga people past Point Perpendicular. Also in the collection are the tools Bass and others used to undergo these voyages of exploration sailing quite literally off the edge of the charts. Once you turned right at Sydney heads, it was into oblivion.
Astrolabe’s, sextant’s, compass’s, chronometers and the sketchy running survey done by Cook thirty years before were Bass’s companions in this voyage from Sydney heads to Bass strait and back. It was the surgeon sailor who first recognized that a strait must exist between Tasmania and the mainland. This voyage however was not into undiscovered virgin lands, the continent had been inhabited by the first voyagers for at least sixty thousand years. Aboriginal explorers had spread across the continent to its farthest edges. White explorers simply followed in their tracks.
Later came worse, disease, warfare, massacre and the hallmarks of imperialism to turn indigenous cultures and civilization into objects of study, classification and ridicule. As the great Franz Fanon indicated, the imperial project turned a multitude of intense systems of knowledge by the first peoples into silenced voices for western imperial exploitation and subjugation. This does not condemn Bass or those convict crewmen, rather it shows that science and the search for knowledge whatever the reasons, is not innocent. Dr. M. Elliot-Ranken and Bernadette Bayley Smith MFA
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