Opening Night - Friday March 28 2014 | 6.30pm

Exhibition runs March 28 – April 23

© Glen O’Malley | Tou Hi Kou Ki

TOU HI KOU KI

I am interested in the influences on these photos, taken over forty-two years. Originally I found exciting photos in the annuals of photography magazines. Some were works by 1950s Japanese collective, Vivo, particularly Eikoh Hosoe, as well as work by Kishin Shinoyama. They seemed to me to deal with issues of “order in chaos”. They were, and have remained, a part of my work.

But I’m not Japanese, and have mainly photographed in Australia, in the tropics. My “Japanese influenced” work is inevitably, immensely Australian. Even earlier influences, the paintings of Russell Drysdale and Sidney Nolan, leave cyclonic debris strewn throughout my pictures.

Glen O’Malley
Woopen Creek, FNQ