When impressed by a WA landscape, Dan McCabe purposefully commits it to memory, to later recreate using lustrous, coloured slates of Perspex for his Joiner series. Without using a camera, Hopper explains, McCabe is nonetheless looking, noticing, and taking a picture.
Driving on the Tonkin, Lydia Trethewey photographs the plaque lining Perth’s arterial airport highway: power lines, traffic furniture. Trethewey applies solvents to her prints, endowing them with a moody, warped surface. A 3000-frame animation collates these images into a billowing, sublime vision of inter-suburb travel.
HERE&NOW17 focuses not on what Perth looks like, but on ways of seeing Perth, how image crafting happens here: “This project is about photography, not of photography,” says Hopper.
HERE&NOW17: New Photography
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
29 April – 8 July