AFRIKA – The Wild by Ken and Michelle Dyball

© Ken and Michelle Dyball
© Ken and Michelle Dyball

The work for this exhibition come from the vast archive of Ken and Michelle Dyball shot over a 10-year period while the couple lived in Africa. Their knowledge and connection to the land is apparent through their unique and unrepeatable images.

© Ken and Michelle Dyball
© Ken and Michelle Dyball

The Dyball’s work has been recognised internationally, winning multiple awards, including Nature’s Best African Photography Awards and BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year. The couple will also be the subject of a future publication by the prestigious Natural History Museum in London, which not only acknowledges the beauty of their work, but also its ethological importance.

© Ken and Michelle Dyball.
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.

Black Eye Gallery director Tom Evangelids said, “This is a truly unique representation of Africa by two of Australia’s foremost international nature photographers. The work is grand, intimate and most of all emotional – it’s compelling to see native animals in their natural habitats. Having Nick Brandt’s work in the gallery last year, we are honoured to have another fine body of images from this amazing continent, and we are thrilled they are Australian!”

© Ken and Michelle Dyball
© Ken and Michelle Dyball
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.
© Ken and Michelle Dyball
© Ken and Michelle Dyball
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.
© Ken and Michelle Dyball.

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

Sydney: The images in Bill Henson’s cinematic new body of work, The Liquid Night, derive from work the highly acclaimed artist shot on 35mm colour negative film in New York City in 1989.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.