3 Exhibitions

Overview

Three new exhibitions embracing imaginative new worlds have graced the walls of the Australian Centre for Photography. Tales from Elsewhere, Images from Adland and Creation each take real things and mould them into a new form resembling reality but not quite. Digital artist Catherine Nelson's Creation takes fish-eyed photos of ponds and beaches, its round results hanging on the walls as small places secretly turned into a little world. Images from Adland is a compendium of moments from advertisers' work, including a towering Brueghel-like  cigarette heap from Adrian Lander and an Escher-like medieval fable of optics and chess by Ian Tjhan.

Occupying the large galleries is a retrospective of the work of photo-artist Polixeni Papapetrou, Tales from Elsewhere. Her work is deeply influenced by children's imaginations and the work and life of Lewis Carroll. The highlight of her exhibiton is Wonderland, where Children inhabit life size drawings of the Alice stories. The images were made in-camera, not digitally manipulated  — real life paintings on the floor blend seamlessly with those on the wall, giving a feeling of standing in a painting and in mid air at the same time. Each exhibition is no bigger than a half-world, but if you come in to see them there's room for you to have a look.