ACP Winter Season: Terry Burrows + Rodney Pople + Hiromi Tango

Overview

The Australian Centre for Photography’s Winter Season brings together three artists who paint, perform and sculpt, but emphasises the photographic element in their work.

Terry Burrows presents Banaras Backs, an exhibition of enormous photographic prints handpicked from his 1008-strong collection, The Banaras Back Book. Over the course of a five-month residency in India, Burrows created a visual essay capturing individuals staring out at the River Ganges in Varanasi (Baranas). The photos were all taken from behind, and cut across time, religion, class and caste.

Rodney Pople’s exhibition, Lie of the Land, places the viewer face to face with species on the verge of extinction. Pople spent time in Kenya capturing close-up portraits of animals, and has built on his photographs with multiple layers of paint and spontaneous brushstrokes. He explores our fascination with the wild along with our desire to domesticate and control.

Hiromi Tango’s Dust Storm blends photography, video, performance and sculpture to explore personal despondency. Viewers are immersed in colour and light, becoming part of Tango’s interest in art’s potential for therapy. The experience is at once disturbing and uplifting.