The Art Gallery of Ballarat summer exhibition program will be celebrated on Sunday December 16 with a public event including pop-up artist talks, a performance by local band The Winter Berries and free children’s art activities.
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AGB curator Julie McLaren says a photographic exhibition opening on Sunday, Echoes, is a chance for the public to see the work of eight leading female photographers.
As the Lumina Collective, the women are exploring incredibly personal stories, says Ms McLaren.
“We haven’t exhibited a lot of photography in the past, and we felt it wasn’t fair to exclude artists working across a lot of media,” Ms McLaren said.
Photographer, lecturer and documentary maker Morganna Magee is exhibiting in Echoes.
“My work comes from an exploration of my identity as a first-generation Australian; my mother and father were immigrants to this country. It’s exploring a side of my Cypriot heritage I don’t know much about, my mother is from Cyprus.”
Jessie Boylan says her photographs are about coming through a time of grief, and finding the gestures that come from that.
“It’s about grief, about suddenly becoming a single parent; considering the self in relation to a world that’s reconsidered,” she says.
“Sometimes in life everything is good and normal and then something happens...”
Echoes opens 2pm Sunday.
