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Phillip Island, off Norfolk Island

Head On Photo Festival 2024
Sharon Zwi
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Sharon Zwi
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Location: The Muse, TAFE NSW Ultimo, Building C, TAFE NSW Ultimo - 695-731 Harris St Ultimo 2010
Entry Fee: Free
Exhibition Event:
Official Opening 22/11/2024 6:00 pm

My photographs are of the unique landscape of Phillip Island (off Norfolk Island) where I went to be an assistant to an ecological scientist studying sooty terns, which are one of the many types of seabirds that breed on the island. The landscape is very harsh, dramatic, and colourful due to the almost total destruction of the vegetation. As a result, there was serious erosion due to introduced pigs, goats, and rabbits eating it all. They were released on Phillip Island soon after the British established a penal colony on Norfolk Island. Since the 1980s, the introduced animals have been removed, and there has been a serious effort to revegetate the island by dedicated members of the Norfolk Island community and National Parks, but there is more work to be done. Phillip Island is a breeding site for around a dozen types of seabirds—terns, petrels, tropicbirds, noddies, boobies, shearwaters, and ternlets.

Sharon Zwi

Sharon was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, until she was 20.
She studied Art at Reading University in the U.K. and did a postgraduate diploma in Printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She immigrated to Sydney in 1982. Sharon took a Photography course at TAFE in Sydney and later a postgraduate diploma in Museum Studies at the University of Sydney.
Sharon works as an artist in various types of Printmaking and Photography.
She has had three solo photography exhibitions and has participated in many group shows over the years.
Her most recent solo exhibition, TIME EXPOSURES: 60 Life Portraits, was held at Fisher Library, as part of HeadOn, at the University of Sydney, in 2013.
She has been a participating member of Sydney Printmakers since 1994, exhibiting at least once annually.

This event has concluded
Dates: -
Location: The Muse, TAFE NSW Ultimo, Building C, TAFE NSW Ultimo - 695-731 Harris St Ultimo 2010
Entry Fee: Free
Exhibition Event:
Official Opening 22/11/2024 6:00 pm
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