Author: jalaruart
Barred Creek
AFW Photographers 2022
I selection of photographers who create the Australia Fashion Week images…
NATIVE
What is being NATIVE and how does a NATIVE person see the world? The landscape talks to us through colours and texture far beyond what the untrained eye can see – through the shift in colours in the sky and water, the contrast from land to sea and the emotional connection to country. Being NATIVE […]
245T (Agent Orange)
In the early 1970s the WA Agriculture Protection Board hired more than 300 men to eradicate the weeds, Noogoora Burr and Parkinsonia, that were affecting livestock across northern WA. The herbicide the men were spraying contained the now-banned substance 245T – an ingredient in the defoliant Agent Orange. ‘Agent Orange’ legacy continues to haunt next generation […]
SCAR 3
Photographic Print Series Karratha, Western Australia 2021 The abstract of visions of what my ancestors were accustomed haunt my creative mind, the emotional connection to suffering and surviving echoes my own life and through these works I allow you to feel the pain of history that has been silenced through prosperity and ignorance. Associate your […]
TETHER 2.0
“This snake has followed me from birth. It has presented itself in many forms over my lifetime and continues to make its presence felt throughout my adult life. It reminds me that even through pain and loss it is my responsibility to my children to guide them so they can prepare themselves for life’s challenges. […]
BLOSSOM
The flower taken from its home while settled on foreign soil, it awaits her time to bloom but the light is different as the water tastes strange to the tongue while strangers give support consequently stripping old growth. Many scars recorded on skin helps the voice establish itself in the cold shade, reaching for warmth […]
TETHER
TETHER 2020 Michael Jalaru Torres Photographic Online Exhibition Head On Photo Festival 2020 Cooee Art Gallery Bondi TETHER crafts visual connections between the sun, moon, earth and stars to portray the perpetual bond between a father and daughter. The use of lighting, colour and negative space evokes the emotional relationship of the subject to his […]
Paintings
FIFTY SQUARED ART PRIZE 2020
Brunswick Street Gallery is excited to present the 2020 Fifty Squared Art Prize, our annual open call art prize with all levels of experience accepted. Featuring over three hundred local and international artists with all artworks 50x50cm or smaller, the Fifty Squared Art Prize truly celebrates the diversity of approach to the simple two dimensional […]