Nicole Matthews. A journey on Deerubbin – otherwise known as the Hawkesbury River. The images presented in this exhibition have been taken over five years from a vintage wooden kayak.
Think of the river at daybreak, when the fog rolls down the valleys, the herons and sea eagles come out to hunt. The sun breaks through the mist – you can’t tell a boat from the swell; a bird from a branch; a rock from its reflection. People and the other creatures of the river share the stillness of the early morning: tinnies with silent fishermen and cormorants on long-abandoned oyster poles, fishing side by side.
Join Sydney photographer and academic, Nicole Matthews for a journey on Deerubbin – otherwise known as the Hawkesbury River. The images presented in this exhibition have been taken over five years from a vintage wooden kayak. They show the beauty of the river, tracing the connections between the humans that love and utilise it and the other living things that dwell there.
Nicole Matthews is an academic, writer and photographer who has lived in Berowra for over a decade. Since 2014, she has produced a photoblog about the interactions between the animals, plants, people and landscape of the lower Hawkesbury – berowrabackyard.com. Her blog has been warmly received by residents of Hornsby Shire, as well as followers around the world. It has been regularly featured on the accumulator site “Australia’s Best Ecology and Environment Blogs” (recently renamed Remember the Wild). Nicole’s landscape photographs received a “commended” award from the Australian Photographer magazine’s Photographer of the Year competition in 2017 and “highly commended” in 2018.
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