An Intimate Dimension

Head On Photo Festival 2013

Rachael Ireland

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Dates: 03 May 2013 - 21 May 2013

Location: Gallery Red Shop 11, 131-145 Glebe Point Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia

Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Closed Mon 10 June 2013

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 03/05/2013 8:00 am

Created whilst undertaking an artist residency in Argentina, Rachael shares her response to the arid & vast Patagonian landscape & elements of settler history combined with the domestic space she occupied at Residencia Corázon & how this mediated her relationship with the outside world.

“My work is concerned with domestic space and the idea of home, and how it mediates our relationship with the outside world. How it separates, protects and confines. I am interested in exploring the divide between urban domestic space and environments that exist at its peripheries, which at some point in history, have been deemed isolated, inhospitable or wild – undomesticated. Through my photographic practice, and the travel it brings about, I negotiate physical and conceptual boundaries of home, reassessing and altering what constitutes my own sense of home and belonging. Additionally my work is informed by cultural and individual histories that expose how other people encounter and negotiate their sense of home in unfamiliar environments.” – Rachael Ireland