ANNE ZAHALKA's work is included in You Are Here - a new exhibition of landscape photography at Town Hall Gallery, Boroondara.
Anne Zahalka, A Quite Day at Spring Creek, 2017, pigment ink on rag paper, 26.4 x 34.8 cm
For the First Peoples of Australia, who have inhabited this country for over 60,000 years, and for those more recently arrived, our relationship with the Australian landscape is defined by both a deep cultural belonging and a history of conflict and displacement. Expanding on the longstanding tradition of landscape photography, this exhibition centres on each of the artists’ connection and disconnection to country. The works deconstruct how we occupy the land and explore ideas of home and identity within the environment informed by cultural, personal and historical narratives.
Anne's included works are from her The Landscape Revisited series (2017) in which she creates photomontages based on early Australian paintings from the Heidelberg School that seek to rewrite colonial narratives and construct a less Anglo-centric image of Australia.
This exhibition is part of the PHOTO2020 program and runs 12 March - 10 May.