Event Title:

PHOTOGRAPHY OF RICHARD WOLDENDORP

Event Web Address:

http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au

 

Opening Date:	1/7/2008	Opening Time:	11:00 am
Closing Date:	3/8/2008	Closing Time:	05:00 pm

Venue:

S H Ervin Gallery

Address:

Observatory Hill/ Watsons Road

Millers Point NSW 2000 Australia

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Phone(s):

(02) 9258 0173

Facsimile:

Email:

lhaynes@nsw.nationaltrust.org.au

Web Address:

http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/

Event Category:

Exhibition

ArtsSub Category:

Photography Conservation National Trust

General Information:

ABSTRACT EARTH: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF RICHARD WOLDENDORP

HURRY EXHIBITION MUST CLOSE 3 AUGUST

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Sunday 27 July @ 3pm
Dr Paul Adam

Landscape conservation, the importance of imagery and the role of the National Trust

Pioneering photographer, Richard Woldendorp, presents his unique view of the Australian landscape in extreme close-ups and in sweeping aerial perspective. It is inevitable that these pictures, which show both natural formations and land shaped by human intervention, are frequently linked with conservationist themes. Though not a primary motivation for his work, it is an interpretation that Woldendorp enjoys and is happy to accept.

Dr Paul Adam is Head of the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of NSW. He is a plant ecologist with a long involvement in wetland and rainforest ecology and has played an active role in nature conservation in Australia. Dr Adams has been an active member of the National Trust for many years serving on the former Coastal Conservation Committee and the current Landscape Conservation Committee. He is chair of the Trust's Bush Management Advisory Committee and the Conservation Committee and was elected to the National Trust (NSW) Board in 2004.

There's a tendency to see the role of the National Trust as being the protection of old buildings- this is very important however the organisation has an equally important role to play in relationship to the protection & conservation of landscape. This was a core part of the UK Trust when it was established more than hundred years ago and in NSW our first property (Montague Island) was a landscape. Dr Paul Adam


S.H. Ervin Gallery Public Program Guest Talks Sundays at 3pm. (subject to availability & may change without notice)


No other Australian photographer has defined the beauty within our wilderness with such poetic intent Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 July 2008. Read Robert McFarlane's recent review at the following link: http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts-reviews/abstract-earth/2008/07/09/1215282914462.html


Image: © Richard Woldendorp, FoRrest River, Kimberely, Western Australia

Contact Person:

Eleanor Venables

Contact Email Address:

evenables@nsw.nationaltrust.org.au

Latest Update:

26/7/2008