Stills Gallery
STILLS is a leading Australian gallery with a focus on contemporary photography and multimedia art. The gallery, established in 1991, is housed in a converted warehouse with a large exhibition and printroom space in Paddington, Sydney’s main gallery precinct.
STILLS represents both emerging and established artists, and has a long history of fostering artists who work at the forefront of contemporary photo media practice.
Address
36 Gosbell St
Paddington Precinct
New South Wales
Australia
Postal Address
36 Gosbell St Paddington NSW 2021
Australia
36 Gosbell St
Paddington Precinct
New South Wales
Australia
Postal Address
36 Gosbell St Paddington NSW 2021
Australia
Opening Hours
11am - 6pm Tuesday - Saturday
Price
FREE
Wheelchair Access
11am - 6pm Tuesday - Saturday
Price
FREE
Wheelchair Access
Yes
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In our first exhibition for 2010 we present four emerging artists working with the enigmatic auras of photographs and objects.
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We are celebrating the end of the year with a new initiative. In collaboration with Magnum Photos, Stills is offering a selection of works from some of the most well-known and best-loved Magnum photographers. In addition, we will be exhibiting a selection of works from Stills printroom, a reminder of some of the wonderful artists we represent.
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This year Magnum photographer Trent Parke, one of Australia’s best-known and most original photographers, was commissioned by Sydney Opera House, as an artist in residence, to shoot behind the scenes. With his characteristic originality and imagination Parke takes us with him backstage.
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For her new body of work, The Summer of Us, Autio has returned to the ocean, but this time to the shore, to the natural and man-made remnants of long summer days; to a lone pink thong, the skeletons of sun hats and sand-crusted fish. Her collection of images introduces us to a lovely continuum existing between manufactured and natural, between ocean and land.
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Traditional photography, like hard science, could not fulfill the task of capturing what the eye, not the camera, observes of the Aurora Australis. Instead Jenkinson uses the lenticular image process, involving the digital reconstitution of several images into a single print. As a ridged lens covering the print simultaneously reveals and conceals its elements, a shifting and illusory effect arise
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Using materials such as tea and sugar Dorota Mytych recreates photographs sculpturally in order to video them. Her images appear on screen slowly, particle by particle and stay quietly with the viewer. Once the image has coalesced, the process is reversed and the image breaks piece-by-piece leaving nothing but an empty white screen.
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The end of the year is upon us. To celebrate we are showing a selection of six Stills artists: Narelle Autio, Tim Georgeson, William Lamson, Trent Parke, Glenn Sloggett, Danielle Thompson
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Martin Smith’s ‘In response to knowing when something is finished’ series focuses on those small moments that glance into a life. The loss or absence inherent in photographic images, which are suggestive of another time and place, is echoed in the physical loss of the words cut into the surface of the works.
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Three-Hole Mountain Inn follows a similar process to Decoy (Stills 2007), where Adair physically constructs all of his sets and props before photographing them. The method of re-creating and re-presenting objects has become integral to developing his practice and continues his interest in the relationship between sculpture and photography.
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In Edgeland, Mark Kimber continues his use of vivid primary coloured images to portray the urban landscape in an unfamiliar way. Objects in the environment are isolated and made strange, walls and house facades appear surreal and two dimensional, skies are brilliant blue, vegetation a lurid green. The world that is ordinarily familiar to us becomes fresh and novel.
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Scans of scrap newspaper and packaging are transformed into delicate symmetrical shapes. Appearing like isolated microscopic studies, these are science fictions in their own right.
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In Games of Consequence, Papapetrou explores the symbolic space of childhood today. Her images delve into the hollows of childhood spaces (physical, psychological and emotional), their games and practises. By recreating playful and sometimes emotional exchanges through her child models, she re-enacts the freedom of movement and self-determination that children once experienced.
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Beverley Veasey’s 2006 series Natural History depicted animals and birds in artificial environments. In this new body of work, Habitats, her interest in the artificial continues however this time the inhabitants, the animals, are nowhere to be found.
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Stretto, from the Latin to draw close, is Christine Cornish’s latest body of work. In keeping with earlier works, Cornish has created simple yet profound compositions that are also philosophical in intent.
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Robyn Stacey’s most recent work re-creates the lost garden of Elizabeth Bay House once world famous not only for the Australian natives but for the exotics imported from China, India, and the Cape of Good Hope and South America. Her artwork gives us access to important historical collections and through that to ideas about history and how our present is shaped by the past.
