APS recently announced the 35 finalists in the MACPP for 2020 – we are happy to share that two MCC members were selected as finalists, Susan Brunialti (one image) and Andrew Railton (two images) – congratulations to Susan and Andrew!
The organisers are holding the Awards Event on Thursday 9 July at 6.30pm, via Zoom. Please pre-register to receive the Zoom details: https://www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php/exhibition/australian-conceptual-photography-prize and clicking the tab labelled Exhibition. The Zoom link will be sent from APS closer to the event.
Link to all finalists images, with artist statements is on the APS website gallery: https://www.a-p-s.org.au
*Image above: Andrew Railton – Australian Dream
MCC’s Finalist’s Images |
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Things do not stay by Susan BrunialtiBuddhist teachings and practice engage an ethos of all that exists is impermanent, everything changes and eventually ceases to exist. Photography documents the present as a future past, collecting moments and holding them with an implied promise of immortality. In truth, a photographic image reinforces the transience of things by only capturing a fragment of time. By embracing the passage of time, impermanence is highlighted as inescapable. Encountering loss, I am interested in exploring the impermanence of humanity; thoughts, emotions, objects and loved ones, things do not stay. |
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The Party is Over by Andrew RailtonViewed through an Australian lens, the only eyes I have, I reflect on how my world appeared to me, and compare that with what I see in Australia today. Have we gone too far. While technological progress has many positive benefits for our nation and human kind, that technological progress has changed the way we think, and in turn, changed the way we act. Is the party over? Have we gone too far? Should we have slowed down a little. Or am I simply getting old? |
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Australian Dream by Andrew RailtonViewed through an Australian lens, the only eyes I have, I reflect on how my world appeared to me in my childhood, and compare that with what I see in Australia today. Have we gone too far? While technological progress has many positive benefits for our nation and human kind, that technological progress has changed the way we think, and in turn, changed the way we act. What is the cost of that change? What have we lost? What is the Australian Dream? Or am I simply getting old and redundant? |