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1 June 2024

Towards: At Brunswick Street Gallery

Thank you to Brunswick Street Gallery for including two images from my series Towards: as part of the Reality and its Double group exhibition. And thanks to all the friends who came to the launch party to check it out with me! Love you all.

"Photography has often been characterised as a kind of mirror, a surface reflecting the appearance of the world around us. While many artists are attracted to the camera for its uncanny ability to mirror and record reality, others see in photography an opportunity to poetically express the subjectivity of truth and the distortion of memory. Reality and its Double is a group photography exhibition of works that blur the boundary between fact and fiction, the world and the image, reality and its double."

Featured Artists: Alistair Marks, Ben Kelly, Cara Coombe, Caroline Esbenshade, Claudia Lewis, Colin Mowbray, Demi Kromidellis, Emily Schulumberger, Fariba Barazandeh, Felix Oliver, Grace Chang, Gretel Bull, Hunter Wilson, Jasna Chilimanova Nakova, Jeremy Guzman, Jeff Andersen, Joel Van Rooyen, Kathleen Szalay, Kat Vonic, Keith Westbrook, Louise Alexander, Lucy Kingsley, Lucas Testro, Luke McKenzie, Mai Naito, Maite Pons, Mark Kleine, Masa Hoss, Melanie Skyers, Melanie Thoren, Mimi Ghali, Phoebe Kelly, Pippa Bond, Tony Feury, Vaughan Stedman.

The series Towards: is an attempt to express the intangible emotional layers that augment the experience – and engineering feat – of modern air travel. A sense of escape, possibility, unknown, and other such evocations of travel become visible in these photographs via light leaks and aurora-esque colours. Mirroring the idea of unfolding and unpredictability, Towards: uses no digital editing. The dreamscape we tend to experience around flying is instead depicted through boiling 35mm film in saltwater, citrus, vinegar, and sunflowers, drying it out, and waiting to see what develops.

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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where I work and live, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and future, and celebrate the ongoing art, storytelling, and cultural traditions that have been practised on this land by one of the oldest cultures on the planet.

 © 2025 - Melanie Skyers