Tag: unsw galleries

ʻO le ūa na fua mai manuʻa

curated by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi

By James Gatt — 22 April, 2020

i acknowledge and pay respects to the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which i live and work and am writing this text. i wish also to preface the text by acknowledging the influence of my western purviews, including the english language.   Translation i attempt the exhibition title…

Fragile Fantasy

Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer

By Hannah Jenkins — 3 May, 2019

The difference between light and truth: Photography captures light and shadow. The camera captures what’s there in front of it, so, for a time, photography was near synonymous with truth. Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer’s black and white photography tears apart this assumption with both clinical precision and grotesque abandon. His portraits and still lifes appear to show…