Curated by Ellie Smith, featuring Grant Beran, Maggie Buxton, Lisa Clunie, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Angela Rowe, Chris Schreuder, Ellie Smith & Diane Stoppard.

The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful.  It’s not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas.  You’re supposed to look through it.  It’s a window.

- John Szarkowski 1960s

Object brings together the works of a divergent group of artists in a new exhibition at the Shutter Room Gallery, opening on Friday 2 June and running through to Saturday 1 July.  These artworks present a huge variety of topics from portraiture, to found objects, meditations on endings & beginnings, dead insects and the clearing of our lands.  

What brings these artworks together is each artists concern for image-making that goes beyond producing a print that is pulled from a printer and hung on the wall. These artists revel in the physical potential of an image - the materiality - the substance - the quality of a surface - the volume/dimension….the ‘thingness’ of their artwork.

Many years ago John Szarkowski, one of our great photographers and art critics, coined the phrase that photography is like a window or a mirror - something we look through and therefore not interesting as a physical art object.  This exhibition is a challenge to that notion - we invite you to come in and view the artworks on display and see what you think!