Explorations with Light
To coincide with his exhibition at ANU as part of VIVID, Lloyd Godman will present a workshop on the 6th & 7th September. For more details on these activities, refer to www.photomedia.net.au in May. This exhibition will be held in the ANU School of Art Photography and Media Workshop, 1st Floor, Building 105, Childers Street, Acton.
Contact: Photomedia Workshop, 02 6125 5815
Explorations with Light
2 days and a night with Lloyd Godman
A workshop exploring LIGHT as the activating force of both photography and nature.
The workshop is broken into 5 sections.
1. Initially, an over view of how light photo-garaphy and ecology interface will be given with in an open environment for discussion.
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Engagement with Carbon Obscura - In this aspect of the workshop the pinhole camera is beamed through a portal to another dimension and the participant travel with it. This aspect of the workshop involves an explanation and practical experiments with the Carbon Obscura work. Godman has gained acclaim in Australia, France and the USA for his innovative use of the pinhole technique. Participants will have the opportunity to actually work inside a huge darken pinhole camera outdoors and create their own interpretations of the projecting pinhole images. Later participants will also have the opportunity to explore the pinhole camera in a more traditional manner making their own images.
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Luna Light painting in the landscape - Taking advantage of the first quarter of a rising moon participants will spend an evening experimenting with a range of light painting techniques. This will include flash, torches, filters mixed light etc. drawing with light etc.
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The photogram - "Projections ..... of objects that dream and talk in their sleep"
is how Tristan Tzara described Man Ray's photograms . This aspect of the workshop explores the visual enigma of the photogram through. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own photograms including a full figure photogram as a collaborative work.
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5. Critique of participants work. With more than 20 years experience as head of a photographic section at an art school – Lloyd can offer in insight into how to ready your work – this will include previous work and work created on the course. |
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It is doubtful if Australasia has a more protean, visionary and ecologically committed artist than Lloyd Godman. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand in1952, and now living in Melbourne, Australia, he has been exploring environmental issues through photography (in combination with sculpture, painting and installations) since the early1980s. He began taking more or less traditional landscape pictures in the late 1960s, but exposure to iconoclastic artists like Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Joseph Beuys inspired him to begin chipping at the edges of photography in the interest of breaking down boundaries. Black and White magazine USA issue 57 2008
"Lloyd Godman's twin careers of serious and successful organic gardener and practicing artist of great creative energy converge in new and constantly surprising ways to make art about the ecological concerns that underly his gardening. Over almost three decades his art has widened out from relatively traditional landscape photography to include elements of performance, audience participation art and multimedia installation to explore the tensions between electronic consumer society and the ecosystem."
Artlink magazine - Ecology: Everyone's Business - Vol 25 no 4 - Dec - Jan 2006 |
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