Exhibition Openings: Alex Walker and Skye Thompson

Alex Walker

Alex Walker is a trained darkroom photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne interested in expanded photographic theory, analogue processes and spatial perception. Expanding on the literal meaning of photography as ‘drawing with light’, Alex explores the moment of image capture and extends photography to its limits by reducing it to its core elements: light, space and perception. As well as traditional photographic methods, Alex employs projection and installation to expand the photograph beyond its two-dimensional form into a physical and phenomenological, bodily encounter.

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Skye Thompson

Studying Screen Production in the late nineties – a time teetering on the cusp of digital imagery – Skye directed 16mm film clips for Brisbane bands.

Time was spent shooting her own vignettes and small documentaries on 8mm film, only to sadly discover she is not a cinematographer. Skye’s own 8mm film family archives have become the only source material she trusts. Years spent interrogating and interrupting the gaze of her forbears now culminate in abstract scans of celluloid that try to transcend.

Skye remains preoccupied with the almost defunct idea that film is a medium where repressed desires can make themselves known.

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