Black Lines 2017 - group exhibition

Photography and architecture are brought together in Black Eye Gallery’s latest exhibition, Black Lines 2017, featuring a selection of Australia’s architectural image makers.

Concrete 10. © Rhiannon Slatter.
Concrete 10. © Rhiannon Slatter.

The exhibition features works by Chris Round, David Manley, Tom Evangelidis, Rob Tuckwell, Tom Blachford, Damien Drew, Rhiannon Slatter, Chris Walters, Terrence Chin, Luc Remond, Rodrigo Vargas, Gary Sheppard, Vin Rathod, Jade Cantwell, Richard Glover, and Kate Ballis.

Moving beyond the highly polished images of commercial architectural photography, Black Lines 2017 surveys a wide selection of photographs of the built environment, turning a critical eye on places and buildings often considered banal.

Welcome Russia, 2003. Havana, Cuba. © Tom Evangelidis.
Welcome Russia, 2003. Havana, Cuba. © Tom Evangelidis.

The exhibition takes the viewer on a journey in which the urban landscape becomes a geometric field of colour, lines and shapes to be played with, distorted, transformed, exaggerated or radically reduced using principles of design common to both the architect and photographer.

Blue Brute. © David Manley.
Blue Brute. © David Manley.

Details

Exhibition dates: 8 – 20 August.
Opening night: Thursday, 10 August, 6 – 8pm; Introduction by Polly Seidler.
Blowering Intake Tower, NSW. © Chris Round.
Blowering Intake Tower, NSW. © Chris Round.
The Cape, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. © Chris Round.
The Cape, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. © Chris Round.

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