Category: Exhibition

March 20, 2012

Gas Gallery exhibition and show, 29 March

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Liam White in collaboration with Ada Conroy.

Ada and I are showing these images paired with two great bands, Deep Heat and Concrete Life.

This series was originally shown at the Unsensored group exhibition late last year, and was shot with a Hasselblad 500C/M on Kodak Tri-X film, and darkroom prints made on Ilford photographic paper.

Hope you can make it along for a look.

November 22, 2011

New collaborative series

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Liam White in collaboration with Ada Conroy.

This project is a collaboration between two Melbourne-based artists, Ada Conroy and Liam White. These are the stories of women who have played an important part in the punk and hardcore scene in Melbourne. Being punk is not gender-specific – it’s not just boys who make and do things.

Growing up out of step with the world, we found in punk and hardcore a source of inspiration, support, empowerment and acceptance. And yet, in 2011, within our own scene, women are still seen as somebody’s girlfriend, still play in ‘girl bands’, and still discouraged from playing an active role in making music. We own this scene. These bands and this music is ours. It’s up to us to make it better.

Each image has been developed and hand-printed at home, and each story has been taken from interviews with participants. Ada and Liam would like to extend a heartfelt thankyou to participants.

This series was shot with a Hasselblad 500C/M on Kodak Tri-X film, darkroom prints made on Ilford photographic paper.

These images will be shown at the Unsensored group exhibition, opening this Friday in Melbourne. Hope you can make it along.

November 21, 2011

Unsensored 11 opening this week in Melbourne

Hey there,

Hope you’re well. I’m back in Melbourne, catching up on sleep, and sifting through the 35 rolls of Portra that I shot while I was away in Mexico and the USA. There look like there are some shots that I am happy with in there, so I’ll be scanning those in over the next few weeks, and will be sharing the better ones here and on my flickr page.

In the meantime, I have some photos showing in this exhibition, opening this Friday at Collingwood Gallery, Smith St Collingwood. Get along and help drink some of the free booze, or, y’know, see some photos, if that’s your thing.

The pictures I will be showing are part of a collaborative project with the excellent Ada Conroy, and feature excerpts from interviews with female musicians involved in the punk scene in Melbourne, telling their stories about what it means to be female and punk. It was a privilege to work with Ada, but also with Emily, Emillie, Ellen, Jelena, and Inga to make these pictures. I’ll post ‘em up here shortly so you can have a gander. In the meantime, here are the details of the exhibition.

The Melbourne Silver Mine presents

UNSENSORED11
an exhibition of analogue photography

Opening night: Friday 25 November 2011
Collingwood Gallery, 292 Smith Street, Collingwood
unsensored.net

The exhibition features the work of 47 photographers.

Invitation photograph: Katherine White

You can also find the invite on Facebook if you are a fan of the book.

July 25, 2011

The Weekender art show

This year the Poison City Weekender Fest is running an Art Show, happening Saturday September 17 during the afternoon. before the show starts that evening. The show is being curated by the excellent Aaron Coping, which I’m pretty excited about.

The Weekender Art Show will run 1 – 5pm at The Old Bar (Johnson St, Fitzroy, Melbourne) and feature art works and photography from the likes of Glenn Smith, Aaron Coping, Mikey Islands, Steve Baker, and yours truly, as well as acoustic performances by Wil Wagner, Jamie Hay, Darren Gibson and Linc le Fevre.

The Weekender Art Show will be free entry with any of other Weekender ticket.

Weekender tickets on sale now from Poison City Shop/ E-Store (www.poisoncityrecords.com/estore) The East Brunswick Club online (www.eastbrunswickclub.com) and The Tote.

Seeya there!