MCPP Series Finalists
-
Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 013 Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 013Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 013
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
-
Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 026 Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 026Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 026
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
-
Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 0310 Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 0310Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 0310
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
-
Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 046 Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 046Anne O Connor Fallen Memories 046
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
-
Glenn Porter 1 Glasshouse Moss Vale10 Glenn Porter 1 Glasshouse Moss Vale10Glenn Porter 1 Glasshouse Moss Vale10
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
-
Glenn Porter 2 Motel Window Mittagong1 Glenn Porter 2 Motel Window Mittagong1Glenn Porter 2 Motel Window Mittagong1
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
-
Glenn Porter 3 Plant South Penrith9 Glenn Porter 3 Plant South Penrith9Glenn Porter 3 Plant South Penrith9
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
-
Glenn Porter 4 Crow Flying Over Hill Dorrigo5 Glenn Porter 4 Crow Flying Over Hill Dorrigo5Glenn Porter 4 Crow Flying Over Hill Dorrigo5
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
-
Gus Armstrong 1 Cawndilla5 Gus Armstrong 1 Cawndilla5Gus Armstrong 1 Cawndilla5
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
-
Gus Armstrong 2 Combiruni Hartley Gus Armstrong 2 Combiruni HartleyGus Armstrong 2 Combiruni Hartley
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
-
Gus Armstrong 3 Minnergong Mundi Mundi1 Gus Armstrong 3 Minnergong Mundi Mundi1Gus Armstrong 3 Minnergong Mundi Mundi1
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
-
Gus Armstrong 4 Mulladon Milo Downs Gus Armstrong 4 Mulladon Milo DownsGus Armstrong 4 Mulladon Milo Downs
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
-
Roza Marciniak 1 To Dear Mary from Mollie1 Roza Marciniak 1 To Dear Mary from Mollie1Roza Marciniak 1 To Dear Mary from Mollie1
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
-
Roza Marciniak 2 To Dear Mary from Monnie4 Roza Marciniak 2 To Dear Mary from Monnie4Roza Marciniak 2 To Dear Mary from Monnie4
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
-
Roza Marciniak 3 To Dear Mary from N Dempsey4 Roza Marciniak 3 To Dear Mary from N Dempsey4Roza Marciniak 3 To Dear Mary from N Dempsey4
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
-
Roza Marciniak 4 To Dear Mary from Teresa2 Roza Marciniak 4 To Dear Mary from Teresa2Roza Marciniak 4 To Dear Mary from Teresa2
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
Artist Statement
1 - Fallen Memories 01
2 - Fallen Memories 02
3 - Fallen Memories 03
4 - Fallen Memories 04
Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
Artist Statement
1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale
2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong
3 - Plant--South-Penrith
4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo
The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
Artist Statement
1 - Cawndilla
2 - Combiruni-Hartley
3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi
4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs
Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.
Artist Statement
1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie
2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie
3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey
4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa
Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.