6th August to 12th October 2025 Opening Celebration 10th August 2025 What is the connection between personal experience and biological memory? Landscapes change, move, uplift, and erode. Where does the individual find herself within the scope of natural history? Landscapes embody memory in a physical way: both the footprint and the fossil show us how[…]
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Danielle Edwards
Madagascan Palm – Vandyke Brown Van Dyke Brown printing creates beautiful warm brown tones by coating cotton paper with a three part light sensitive solution. Exposure to UV light changes the light sensitive salts to image forming metallic iron and silver in the paper. The Van Dyke Brown is similar to the original formula patented by Arndt and Troost[…]
Elizabeth Opalenik
Iris Ii – Mordançage The Mordançage process works by chemically bleaching the print so that it can be redeveloped, lifting the black areas of the emulsion away from the paper giving the appearance of veils. The lifted emulsion can be removed or manipulated. Originally called bleach-etch, the process was used to turn film negatives into positives as far back as[…]
Elizabeth Parsons
Sacred Heart Cathedral – PalladiumMelbourne GPO – Palladium Platinotype: Palladium Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper. Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver[…]
Ellie Young
Cactus Echeveria Elegans – Orotone Orotone printing had limited popularity during the late 19th-century through the 1940’s. Seattle photographer Edward S. Curtis refined the technique to the extent that he eventually was considered the greatest master of the process producing hundreds of orotone photographs of Native Americans during his career. The exposed carbon tissue is transferred onto the glass[…]
Gale Spring
Pegasus – Platinotype: Platinum Palladium Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper. Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver prints. The platinum[…]
Hengli Ge
Mask – DaguerreotypeMetal And Fibre – DaguerreotypeMetal – Daguerreotype About Daguerrotypes: In an August 1839 publication by Lous Jacques Mondé Daguerre, Daguerreotype was claimed to be the first practical photographic system. The image was sharp and grain-less, but laterally reversed and difficult to view. Each image was an original, and long exposures were necessary. Although it involved the use of hazardous chemicals and was[…]
Dianne Longley
Upside Down and Right Side Up – Cyanotype – Cyanotype Traditional The Cyanotype process was presented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 to the Royal Society of London. A Cyanotype is based on combining ferric ammonium citrate with potassium ferricyanide. Working solutions are created from each of the chemicals. These are mixed in equal parts before coating onto the[…]
Danielle Edwards
Live Oak (Quercus Virginiana) – Platinotype – Platinum Palladium Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper. Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver[…]
Jainming Zhong
Jainming Zhong (China)Old Courtyard Suzhou – Carbon Transfer Printing Carbon Transfer printing is a beautiful permanent process with an enormous tonal range. Carbon printing is created by sensitizing pigmented gelatin with dichromate. The pigmented gelatin becomes insoluble in water proportionate to the UV light received through a negative. The exposed pigmented gelatin is transferred onto a support. Hot[…]