Author: jalaruart

Abstract Landscape – Minyirr

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 31/10/2019
Categories In blog, project, solo, songlines

When I tend to capture landscape the colours and texture of country speaks to me and over the years I’ve spent many hours using different Lens and filters versus times of day that allows the colour to remind the viewer of being on country and feeing the emotional connection, my landscape work isn’t about a […]

‘To Be Continued… Photography from Indigenous Australia’ 2019

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 17/10/2019
Categories In blog, exhibitions, fineart, group

To Be Continued is a survey of recent photography from Indigenous Australia. Cinematic vistas of wide-open spaces recall memories of childhood and adolescence and re-enactments of history shed light on horrific frontier violence while restrained yet poignant portraits give face to some of Australia’s more remote communities. With work from remote, regional and metropolitan based artists, To […]

Pingyao International Photography Festival

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 17/10/2019
Categories In blog, embrace, exhibitions, fineart, group

The Pingyao International Photography Festival is held in the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province. It’s not only an event for photographers of all skill levels, from the novice to the seasoned photographer, but is also a rare event for those simply interested in photography. This includes both curiosity-driven local residents and tourists from […]

MOTHER EARTH BURN

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 10/10/2019
Categories In blog, exhibitions, fineart, solo

OPENING THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 6.00-8.00PM Blak Dot Gallery |www.blakdot.com.au 33 Saxon Street BRUNSWICK 3056 Mother Earth Burns as scars tattoo across her skin, her life-giving flow dried to dust. Her tears are salty to the tongue as her voice burns red. She cries out to those who are willing to listen to her song. A collection […]

Pingyao Photo Festival 2019

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 25/09/2019
Categories In blog

EMBRACE Series

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 31/07/2019
Categories In embrace

COLLECT

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 10/07/2019
Categories In exhibitions, fineart, project, solo

COLLECT the latest photo series by Michael Jalaru Torres is a journey into the dark history of collected human remains taken from Australia and held in institutions in Germany during the early 19th century, Jalaru has captured and presented these works to shed light on the past to help coincide with the repatriation of these […]

NATIVE

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 23/05/2019
Categories In exhibitions, solo

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 […]