Everywhere was Wherever by Damien Drew

EverywhereWasWherever_12_56B46CE0-E3DD-11E4-BF4C0255DB59F8D4

This exhibition is Art Director and Production Designer, Damien Drew’s first solo photographic exhibition. It presents a series of images captured on an 18-day motorcycle trip across the USA. His singular experience has generated a unique perspective of the American road and the images ask us to pay attention to scenes and details habitually passed over, presenting beauty in unlikely places.

 

With the outward expansion and relentless franchising of roadside America, there is a loss of place and texture. Drew notes Howard Kunstler’s lament of America’s decent into ‘placelessness’ in The Geography of Nowhere, where the country is transformed from vital places and communities to a land where every place is no place in particular. He also speaks of every intersection presenting a choice, yet every destination feeling the same.


Drew’s film credits include The Great Gatsby, Superman Returns, Star Wars and The Matrix films. He studied Architecture at UNSW and his passion for the creation of place and visual story telling is clear and concise. With a humble nod to great documentary image-makers such as Jeff Brouws, Ed Ruscha and Walker Evans, the body of work is a personal moment in time.

EverywhereWasWherever_3

The exhibition will be opened by respected television, radio journalist, presenter and producer, Fenella Kernebone, on 3 June.

  • Organised by: Black Eye Gallery

Upcoming Events Submit an Event

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

Ballarat: Scotty So is a Melbourne-based artist who works across media, using painting, photography, sculptures, site-responsive installation, videos and drag performance.

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.

Sydney: Curated by Lynn Smith, Urban Enigmas aims to unlock the subtle mysteries that lurk in out-of-the-way places in big cities: back lanes, river banks, street markets, abandoned factories, old bridges and so on.

March

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.