Glenn Sloggett #Photographe
Glenn Sloggett documente ce qui est laissé pour compte, abandonné et désuet, afin d'exprimer à la fois la fragilité et la persistance de l'espoir. En 2001, il remportait la première John and Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship attibuée à un photographe en début de carrière par la Albury Regional Art Gallery (New South Wales, Australie). Ses œuvres ont été présentées dans le cadre de plusieurs expositions, dont New Australiana, une exposition itinérante du Australian Centre for Photography, et Photographica Australis (ARCO 2002, Madrid et Singapore Art Museum). Il représentait l'Australie à la 11th Asian Art Biennale au Bangladesh (2004).
Exposition Exhibition : « Down in the dumps » by Glenn Sloggett Exposition Glenn Sloggett et Linsey Gosper à Sidney Exposition Season 08 Exposition collective Stills gallery Modifier l'image
Press release - If Glenn Sloggett’s artwork were music it would be in the Minor key. It would be an album full of B sides, without any hits. The charm has to creep up on you. As it is, his chosen medium is photography and his ‘genre’ if that’s the right word for it, is street photography. After all shabby pavements and roadsides do feature repeatedly in Sloggett’s work, but this is not your average street photography. For starters he works with a square format (an old twin lens reflex) and shoots sparingly on film. He makes a roll last a while, partly because he has honed his eye and goes out knowing what he wants and partly because he’s not rolling in cash.
Down in the dumps continues Sloggetts long-term love-affair with the unloved and the unloveable. One of the things that distin...
Glenn Sloggett looks at how the grand themes of life, death, success and failure are realised in the ordinary language of the suburbs. His artworks embrace the unlovable and he finds beauty in what many would see as repellant. His images - a travelogue of broken-down and piss-stained suburbia - show an affection and respect for his subjects. There are no people in these photographs and they are almost forensic in their banality, yet there is also a beauty in these subtle colour images, which exposes both the frailty and the persistence of hope.
Throughout his work he taps into the painful clarity of the moment where the lover realises that the beloved just doesn’t like them that much. They have absolutely no chance. The photographs are images of diseased flowers, a waiting dog, graffiti, bright plastic flow...
The end of the year is upon us. To celebrate we are showing a selection of six Stills artists. Trent Parke’s dark and humorous series The Christmas Tree Bucket is highly appropriate for this seasonal show. "I started to think how strange families, suburbia, life... and in particular Christmas, really was" says Parke of his decision to focus on the joys and pitfalls of family life. The series can be seen in full at the Australian Centre for Photography in Paddington and has just been shown (in part) with great interest at Paris Photo, France.
Narelle Autio’s underwater images continue to fascinate viewers. Shown here is a selection of works from different series. The body in watery space is celebrated in these glorious balletic photographs that gain in impact in proximity to each other. Summer is ...