SIMONE DOUGLAS
Blind, 2000
Installation site: Australian Centre for Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Blind.
Blind is the culmination of a long-term investigation into a contemporary understanding of the photographic in relation to the sublime, excess, immateriality and landscape. These are transient landscapes made in response to a flooded desert, an upended sky.
An initial body of over six hundred images were collated. The final images were made via a process of light staining and analogue processes. They were formed from a construction of prints made from negatives and light staining in the darkroom. The dominant use of blue in the work is a reference to my research into the desire for "perfect knowledge" via the conduit of the sun, and "blindness" caused by the excess of light. Blue is the last color we are able to perceive before blindness.
Selected Exhibition History
2024
Borrowed Landscapes. Mosman Art Gallery Sydney
2019
Person, Place, or Thing: New Ideas in Photography. Sharon Arts Center, Exhibition Gallery. New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH, United States.
2017
Metamorohoss, “Animart”, Athens Fine Art School, Delphi, Greece (curated by Oh Soon-Hwa, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
2016
“World & Homeland” China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.
Selections from Blind, The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD, Pier 94, JBH Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Sequester, Australian Consulate, Washington, D.C. (curated by Chris Hanrahan).
2011
Photography & Place, Australian Landscape Photography 1970s Until Now, The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia (curated by Judy Annear, Senior Curator of Photography, Art Gallery of NSW).
Undressing the World, Conveyor Magazine Presents Magazine Launch and Exhibition Opening, 25CPW, New York, NY.
2006-7
Zero, touring exhibition, New Zealand: Te Manawa, Palmerston North, The Suter, Nelson, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill (curated by Di Halstead, Otago University).
2006
Beautiful Decay, Loose Projects, Sydney, Australia (curated by Matt Glenn).
Sky of the Skies, Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
Flight of the Eye, PII Contemporary Art Space, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
2005-6
Highlights from the Collection, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
2004-5
Sight Seeing, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China (curated by Sioux Garside, Curator, University of Sydney).
Sight Seeing, Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, Sydney, Australia (curated by Sioux Garside, Curator, University of Sydney).
2002
Vanishing Point, BlauGrau, Sydney, Australia (curated by Ryzard Dabek, University of Sydney).
2000
Minimal, The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), Sydney, Australia (curated by Alasdair Fos- ter, Director of the ACP).