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Shikoku no Seijaku (Shikoku Silence)

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Damien Drew
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Damien Drew
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Location: Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, New South Head Road, Double Bay NSW, Australia
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Entry Fee: $ free
Exhibition Event:
Artist Talk 10/08/2024 3:30 pm
Genres: Landscape
Artist Q&A + closing drinks

Shikoku’s ageing population and youth migration to Honshu and Kyushu are seeing many regional communities become ghost towns. Empty highways intersect the island’s mountainous interior, linking decaying ‘shutter towns’ where countless homes and businesses stand deserted. In some towns, up to half the residential buildings stand empty and are known colloquially as ‘akiya’ (empty house). The population of Nagoro town is now so small that the remaining elderly residents have populated the town with ‘scarecrow’ mannequins, posed as if undertaking the activities of their former neighbours. Shikoku’s dense natural environment is slowly reclaiming the homes, buildings, and infrastructure of other towns.

Shikoku no Seijaku (Shikoku Silence) featured in the 2023 Head On Photo Festival, find out more.

Buy an exclusive signed copy and editioned book of Shikoku Silence through the Redleaf Gallery store.

Damien Drew

Damien Drew is passionate about documenting the built environment and our relationship with it. He’s fascinated with what he sees as the loss of ‘place’, the erasure of unique communities and their replacement with homogenous franchised environments.

Drew observes that vital environments are being transformed so that ‘every place’ becomes ‘no place’. His images capture the beauty in unlikely locations, reframing loss and decay as an invitation for reflection and introspection.

Drew’s work has been featured in multiple publications and exhibited across Berlin, NYC and Sydney.

To find out more about Drew’s practice, see our article on 12 great architecture photographers.

This event has concluded
Dates: -
Location: Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, New South Head Road, Double Bay NSW, Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee: $ free
Exhibition Event:
Artist Talk 10/08/2024 3:30 pm
Genres: Landscape
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