Friday 13 December 2013

Figure and Ground series








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A study of sorts in figure and ground (both literally and metaphorically) out the back of the MFB Burnley station. Shot all in camera no layering in Photoshop invovled.  

I've walked past this scene coming back from the burnley bouldering wall many times over the last couple of years but just kept putting off. story of my life but I got there in the end and came away with some interesting results.

I think beauty can be found in the places that are often overlooked, it's just a matter of taking the time to look around and notice it, case in point.    

Sunday 27 October 2013

Constructed Ruins series

hamer hall victorian arts centre construction ruin concrete rebar steel tim macauley melbourne australia abtraction abstract



hamer hall victorian arts centre construction ruin concrete rebar steel tim macauley melbourne australia abtraction abstract





hamer hall victorian arts centre construction ruin concrete rebar steel tim macauley melbourne australia abtraction abstract




hamer hall victorian arts centre construction ruin concrete rebar steel tim macauley melbourne australia abtraction abstract

To create, you have to destroy, or something like that, or maybe the creation is in the destruction? The construction site of Hamer Hall, part of the Victorian Arts Centre [link]

This was shot a few years back. Once again, only now got around to posting it up now. 

Thursday 17 October 2013

Portal series

andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night

andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night

andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night

andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night

andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night



andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night





andrew rogers unfurling sculpture public art docklands melbourne australia tim macauley abstract abstraction night


Once again on a meta-art trip, this time with Andrew Rogers [link] Unfurling, located in the docklands precinct of Melbourne, Australia.

At some stage I'll have to put together a book of all the sculpture I've shot down there if I can ever be bothered.    

Tuesday 24 September 2013

Artist Statement Template

After spending years going to various exhibitions and taking sometime to take in what the artist was trying to express through their work by reading the artist statement, when it was present. I think I’ve gotten the basic template down.

Artist Statement

[insert bullshit here]….something, something, Gursky, something, something……..childhood memories…… something, something..... a moment of artistic clarity (a.k.I took an LSD trip at the insistence of my fellow artists/sycophants) and or I just saw what was selling well and jumped on the bandwagon.... something, something.... passionate…something, something.... [insert some esoteric art movement]..... something, something.....Bob Saget.....something,something.....fin.

Often it feels like the statement is just tacked onto the end, to meet the gallery owners/ exhibitors/ curators/ juries request. An afterthought, rather than the core and the beginning point of the work, as it should be.

The only way one can come towards an objective way to judge and critique the work is how well the statement and the work presented are aligned i.e what the artist is trying to show is actually seen. Otherwise one is submerged down into to the murky world of subjectively and sycophancy.   

You have to have something to express before you can express it in a physical form. I guess the argument can be put forward that the art upon viewing, it should speak for itself. That to provide a statement or interpretation is dumbing down the work for the masses, that which to the truly cultured should be self evident. The other question raised is what if someone takes away something different from the work rather than the intended one of the artist has the art lost it’s meaning?       

If you can't be bothered creating your own, then you can always give the mob at Arty Bollocks[link], 500 letters [link], or 10Gallon [link] a call.  

Like I’ve mentioned previously [link] to be classified as art it should stop you, make you think and as a result look at the world differently. Thus you won’t be seeing any of the stuff posted here in MoMA anytime soon. 


Thursday 19 September 2013

For Lease series




































The CBD of Geelong has been in decline for a while, since Westfield [link] completed it's expansion a few years back. Why spend time walking outside to various shops when you can do everything you need to under one roof? The logic is sound and people have voted with their feet. So it's not really surprising the effect it's had on shop fronts, with the CBD looking much like a ghost town. Such is life. 

Note: Yes, I realise I could have gotten rid of the reflections, had I used a polarising filter, but alas I didn't use one. Also should have used a grey card due to the variable light sources with different colour temperatures. Also I didn't bother with HDR or exposure blending my lecturers will no doubt be rolling over in their graves one day, well maybe not on the HDR front. I could put it down to my artist vision coming out just the way I wanted it too but frankly I was just too lazy to go the extra mile, that a commercial photographer would have gone to.