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The messenger

Roslyn Sharp
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Roslyn Sharp
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Location: Sheffer Gallery, Lander Street, Darlington NSW, Australia
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Entry Fee: Free
Genres: Fine-Art, Landscape

The Messenger reveals exciting new facets of the visual style of Sharp. There is a playful approach to the genres that have fuelled this new work. In landscapes and domestic interiors, in portraits of humans and animals and in still-life’s, Sharp juxtaposes works of differing scale and breathtaking colour with the rigour of black and white.

Messengers bring messages. While Roz Sharp remains forever the so called ‘Mayor of Kellett Street’, the images in The Messenger takes audiences out of the clamour of inner city Sydney into a braided narrative that features the traces of charged locations across the continent, hints of rituals, public and private and the mysteries of destruction, loss and healing. There is humour also but most importantly there is beauty.

These images were mostly made on her iPhone since 2022.

Roslyn Sharp

Sharp has a belief in the power of social documentary photography to capture both individual and regional histories, Sharp has continued to work on her extended photo series of her local Kings Cross community.

Between 1999 and 2016 Sharp was the driving force behind Cross Projections, a grassroots popular slideshow event held annually at the Australian Institute of Architects in Kings Cross. These events featured the work of established and emerging social documentary photographers.

This event has concluded
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Location: Sheffer Gallery, Lander Street, Darlington NSW, Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee: Free
Genres: Fine-Art, Landscape
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